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The study of history helps us understand how economies and societies have evolved in a direction rather than another. More crucially, it provides a rationale to assess current political debates and paths of development

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Some venture capital investors are starting to use data analytics to predict survival or failure. The authors have developed a data matrix identifying four startup archetypes

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