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Top 5 FinTech Pitch Decks That Pulled Millions

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Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. — Paul Samuelson. Hey guys, recently I’ve been dabbling on a pitch deck creation. To create a better pitch deck that will captivate investors and clients alike. Upon reading multiple pitch decks that have been submitted to YCombinator 1 , I’ve concluded that there is a certain pitch deck structure and characteristics needed. For me, I think a pitch deck must contain only the core of what you’re trying to do or achieve. I mean, just keep it short and simple which even a 5 year old could understand. Don’t put any jargon and highlight the important parts like graphs and figures. Anyways, let’s dive on some pitch decks used and created by well known companies in this day and age. Coinbase If you’ve been in the crypto space for a while, I know for sure you’ve heard the name Coinbase. Its one of the top cryptocurrency exchange that is base
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Installing mysql2 Ruby Gem in macOS Mojave

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Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it. — Michael Novak. Hi guys, this is a common problem for people who uses macOS to develop Ruby 1 based apps that utilized MySQL 2 data store. I’ve personally encountered this problem myself back in the days and still encountering this on brand new setup macOS workstation. We will go through the steps I did to resolved this problem. Prerequisites We assume here you have some basic knowledge on setting up Ruby and command line tools on macOS. Ruby (Latest) Bundler 3 (Latest) Homebrew 4 (Installed and no problems, run and check brew doctor for more info and if the installation is okay ) What did I do to solve the problem? Here’s what I’ve done to resolve the problem. First is to install openssl or gnutls (choose your poison). Both are great have some pros and cons but most people would use openssl and that’s what I preferred. brew install openssl Then we point
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Top Three DNS Providers That Provides Good Service in SEA (Southeast Asia)

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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. — Jamie Zawinski. Hi guys, this are my top three good DNS (Domain Name System) providers that are really fast, secure and reliable that can be use in Southeast Asia. Cloudflare Cloudflare Public DNS (IPv4) 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 Cloudflare Public DNS (IPv6) 2606:4700:4700::1111 2606:4700:4700::1001 So why Cloudflare 1 ? Choose Cloudflare if you want less than <1ms of domain name resolution. Seriously, they have the fastest name resolution on the internet. Google Google Public DNS (IPv4) 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Google Public DNS (IPv6) 2001:4860:4860::8888 2001:4860:4860::8844 So why Google 2 ? You will use this if you need an old but still good reliable DNS server. Its been used as a primary name resolution on big companies as well as local workstation. Its much more better than your ISP (Internet Service Provider) provided DNS. Yandex Yandex DNS (IPv4
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Sending Email Using MailKit in ASP.NET Core Web API

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton. Hey guys, recently I’ve been working on an ASP.NET Core project that needed email services to send reports. And I’ve been dumbfounded by some tutorial on how they implemented the email service functionality. Some are over complicated while others were over simplified. So here I am creating yet another tutorial for sending email using MailKit and .NET Core . Let’s jump in! Prerequisites First of all, you must have a . NET Core 3.1 SDK (Software Development Kit) installed in your computer and also I assumed you are currently running Windows 10 or some Linux with proper environment set. And MailKit on which this package becomes a de-facto standard in sending emails as its being preferred and recommended by Mi
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Disable mDNS and SSDP Discovery in Google Chrome

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. — Orson Welles. Hi guys, if you ever check your task manager you’ll notice chrome is listening to port 5353 on Linux. Did you know you could stop it? as what this sub-process is specifically doing – listening and doing some device probing like an auto discovery which is similar to avahi . In order to disable this Chrome functionality you need to first create a directory and policy file. You could do this by executing the command below. sudo mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/ sudo touch /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/block_mdns_ssdp.json What this does is first create a directory inside the /etc/opt/chrome which will be used to store manage policies and create the initial policy file that we would be editing. Then we edit the block_mdns_ssdp.json file that we created earlier and then we put the contents
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