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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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Travelling To Hong-Kong

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Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted. — Anonymous. I’ve recently visited Hong Kong, and it always feels like the first time. I’m always amaze on how fast things change and to new places I’ve never been to. Me and my girlfriend planned this trip for almost 2 months, as this is her first air flight. On the 4th of December, we book a grab car around 4AM straight to Manila International Airport. As we got off the departure bay, we see a long queued line going in the airport terminal entrance. Hahaha always Manila… facepalm an hour and half has passed then got through security checkpoint to check-in lounge, another queue line to get our boarding pass. This is not a rant but rather a straight face story telling. Even though after that long tiresome waiting, we didn’t let that event affect our mood and excitement flying to Hong Kong. We got our boarding pass wew , and set of to immigration counter. I’m kinda worried that time, if my girlfriend would pass the
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As We Roam Hong-Kong

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I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could. — Evel Knievel. I never knew traveling was something I would really want, but here I am craving for it. This is a continuation of my travel to Hong Kong this December, check out the first article here . We stayed in a place called Li Cheng Guesthouse in the district of Tsim Sham Tsui. I must say the place is clean and well organized, the room was a bit small but for me its good enough. After resting for a bit, me and my girlfriend went to a nearby exchange then roamed few districts riding MTR. The ride was a breeze compared to when riding railways in Philippines. Our first destination was Sham Shui Po, what we did check is the Golden Computer Arcade to check game consoles. I was tempted to buy a Nintendo Switch there as prices is much more cheap compared to large retailers. Next, we traveled in Central to ride trams (quick fact: trams in hong kong first operated in 1
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DevOps Series - Multiple AWS CLI Accounts

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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. — Zig Ziglar. Hi guys as a Dev Ops, I handle multiple project all at once. One problem I encountered is managing multiple AWS accounts for different startups. So how to handle multiple AWS account? Prerequisites Before you start doing this I assume you already know basic command line interface whether its for Windows or from *Nix (Linux, macOS, Unix) derivatives. And also you must have a python interpreter with at least version 3 above. Multiple, Multiple to the Nth First, if you haven’t got the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) install it using the command pip install --upgrade --user awscli . The command will install the awscli package in your local python dist directory. And now we begin. You’ll need to generate first your AWS keys and secret access key. Here are the steps. Go to IAM Console Go to Users in the navigation pane and select your IAM username. Selec
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Going Out Of Town

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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci. Hi guys, this log is more of a personal blog diary about my life. So here’s what happened, I left my daughter in my relatives place as I was going out of town…​ I slept around 2-3am yesterday and woke up by my dog around 10am, as she started licking my face. By the way my dog’s name was Lexus, named after a luxurious car brand. For me Lexus is like my own child, she’s the type of dog that is always lively and sometimes I think she has ADHD — always in constant need of attention. Its the first time I’m not gonna be around her for around a week. Actually I’m quite a bit concerned on what her situation, even though she’s staying at my relatives house. At 11am, I feed her with food and also took my meal. After that, I started packing my things going back to my place. I tried to take a na
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Editor Series - Configuring Emacs To Fit The Needs Part 2

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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. — Albert Einstein. As the title says, to fit the needs. Currently, I’m looking into handling multiple projects but vast differ in programming paradigm and language. Some of the language that I’ll probably tackling are Go, Rust, Ruby, Perl, C++, JavaScript, Typescript, and etc. Prerequisites First of all, you need Emacs 26 and up as this is the main topic of this article that we need to configure. There are many ways to install it on your system, kindly check your GNU/Linux distribution for specific ways to install it. Packages, Oh For The Brave If its your first time configuring Emacs, then head out first to my first article here . After that, we will establish all the needed packages. Diminish, Bind and Org The package diminish will remove any mode in status bar, while the bind will map the keys to a specific lisp function. And not to forgot
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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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