Indian multinational and conglomerate Mahindra will set up a blockchain incubator to support startups in the development of blockchain-based applications in a number of industries.
As a conglomerate, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has a foothold as a major automaker in Indiawith exports of vehicles to multiple countries, a presence in finance, IT, finance, consulting and other industries. With its incubator, the aim is to develop blockchain solutions that can be across multiple companies in the Mahindra Group, according to a report in the Business Line.
In quotes reported by the publication, group president for strategy Anish Shah stated:
We are looking at an incubation center for Blockchain, which will be a global center…We are looking at developing a business. We’ve got about 7-10 cases for Blockchain [tech] within the group.
In late 2016, Mahindra partnered tech giant IBM to develop a cloud-based blockchain solution in trade finance for the Indian market. The offering will see all parties involved in a supply chain finance transaction participating on a single shared ledger. A traditionally cumbersome process wherein errors and unpaid dues are commonplace, real-time access to logistics and capital or credit could significantly improve supply chain finance in the country. That particular solution is aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises who are clients with Mahindra Finance, the finance arm of the company.
Blockchain technology could significantly alter supply trade finance for the better in India.
“We started with supply chain and invoice discounting for supply chain,” added Shah. “There are a number of use cases for Mahindra Finance and use cases for auto business and then we can take it forward for other business.”
In a clear indicator of M&M going big on blockchain investment and development, the incubator will be independent of the work being done by Tech Mahindra, a group company of the conglomerate. The latter is also working toward developing Blockchain solutions, as product offerings to its clients. M&M will look to introduce blockchain solutions developed from the incubator into its own working group of companies.
Other similar efforts toward mass blockchain implementation in India sees Yes Bank, a major private sector lender in India announce a multi-node blockchain solution to digitize and automate vendor financing. The proof-of-concept transaction was tested in the real world with a major electrical equipment manufacturer and proved to be successful. The blockchain was hosted on IBM’s cloud platform.
It is rare that the London sky shines so bright you can’t find one cloud, but that was the weather yesterday in the capital that once used to run an empire where the sun never sets. In Washington DC, which has in many ways taken on that banner, the weather was more somber, just slightly less rainy than during the vote for Brexit, reflecting in both cases the seriousness of a monumental task that now faces the world and the country.
“We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.”
So thundered the newly elected president, putting to rest any speculation that he might soften his tone. Instead, both implicitly and explicitly, the speech indicated that Trump is now to go full speed ahead with what he has promised. That suggests current market trends will probably continue as somewhat confirmed by bitcoin’s recent $40 rise.
Bitcoin’s Price Rises Following Trump’s Inauguration – Image from BitcoinWisdom
Traders are betting that Trump’s plans are good for the economy. The already revamped White House website promises a “return to 4 percent annual economic growth,” through a one trillion infrastructure spending stimulus, “lower rates for Americans in every tax bracket,” and, somewhat directly relevant for our space, a “moratorium on new federal regulations” which “cost the American economy more than $2 trillion.”
With the republicans now controlling all legislative branches, the above economic plan is likely to go through in a relatively easily manner compared to his other aims. Moreover, it is doubtful any of it will be much diluted as Trump has seemingly made it clear in his speech that there won’t be any uturn:
“The establishment protected itself but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. That all changes starting right here and right now… [w]hat truly matters is not which party controls our government but whether our government is controlled by the people.”
Facing opposition, within and outside his own party, he’ll need to maintain the support of the people. So far, he has not disappointed them. In fact, he has offered them hope and optimism for the future, promising in his speech that “we will bring back our dreams,” further stating:
“We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.”
It is still just words, but how anyone will retain trust in the political system if those words are not maintained after being told “[t]he time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action,” is unclear. Perhaps, therefore, we may shift and consider the new reality as well as the biggest question now facing the world with the answer having a significant effect on bitcoin’s behavior.
Confrontation or Cooperation?
“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone but rather to let it shine as an example… We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones. And unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.”
From China to Arabia, Europe and South America, a defining question is preoccupying glittery halls. Do they risk confrontation, or opt-in for co-operation?
For Arabia, any proxy wars between America and Russia, exemplified by the former’s support for Saudis and the latter’s for their geopolitical rival, Iran, will hopefully be brought to an end. How, exactly, is not clear as what little is now officially stated is far too general:
“Defeating ISIS and other radical Islamic terror groups will be our highest priority. To defeat and destroy these groups, we will pursue aggressive joint and coalition military operations when necessary. In addition, the Trump Administration will work with international partners to cut off funding for terrorist groups, to expand intelligence sharing, and to engage in cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable propaganda and recruiting.”
“Peace through strength will be at the center of… foreign policy.” – his administration now says. Whether showing great strength in the middle east will be the right decision, probably in cooperation with Russia as well as maybe all of NATO, is difficult to judge impartially, but what is easier to say is that the longer this continues, the more a minority on both sides will be radicalized, at a great cost for both, increasing the urgency for a quick end to this confrontation.
The Trump administration has a strong mandate regarding ISIS, so referring to them throughout the campaign, but whether he can end this 15-years long war which, in the process, would restore the reputation of the vast majority of Muslims, remains to be seen. If he does, markets are likely to very positively react both within and outside the blockchain space.
On China, they have recently softened their tone and have suggested a desire for co-operation. Trump will probably accept their offer and begin negotiations, with the two countries’ strong economic dependence towards each other likely leading to an agreeable outcome for both, but, whether that will indeed be the case or whether they instead repeat the mistakes of almost exactly a century ago, remains to be seen.
Domestically, the left in America likewise has to decide whether to co-operate or confront the new administration. President Trump and Bernie Sanders share in common some views, especially on trade, but much of the opposition has been regarding more cultural aspects. To that, he said:
“It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood…”
There is a minority of racists in all colors who use it as an excuse to gain power and subjugate others, as there are small minorities who want their country to rule the world or to impose their religion upon others, but, by far, the vast majority of America, and, in my view, certainly Trump, do not see color, or gender, or sexual orientation, or nationality, so knowing there are people of good and bad character in all those groups. The left may, therefore, eventually, save their resistance for when it actually matters and has a chance of gaining the support of independents.
The Rise Once More of the Cross-Atlantic Alliance
It was almost 40 years ago that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher undertook structural reforms that shaped and still shape the world. Securing their place in history as, after a difficult period of transition, peace and economic prosperity followed.
Trump is no movie star and May is no Thatcher, but the people of Britain and the people of America have clearly once more ushered in a new era. Partly due to economics, but also, in my view, as a backlash against an elite that has given us 15 years of war and appeared to have no intention of ending it.
The very close decision by the free people of both Britain and America in the EU referendum and in the presidential election reflects the difficult choice that was to be made. Some may still fear, but our space, in particular, is a great example of the global world we live in. We interact with bitcoiners from Argentina, China, Dubai, Russia, South Africa, all over Europe and all over the world. Many of us have grown up chatting to individuals from countries across the globe. We see no color, no nationality, no religion. We consider all those qualities irrelevant wherever there is injustice. We just want back the peace and optimism of the 80s and 90s and, who knows, maybe we now might get it as Trump clearly indicates we are to move full speed ahead.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article are solely that of the author and do not represent those of, nor should they be attributed to CCN.
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Trying to build a business from scratch could be very difficult especially when you have limited funds. It is no more business as usual with the help of some tools during the bootstrap stage. If starting has always been a problem, you might what to take a look at this tools to help you on some of your challenges.
Branding and Development
Squarespace Logo Designer is perfect for anyone with a little budget. It will help you design a simple logo that you will be happy to display on your website and business card. Square space Logo is incredibly easy to use. You will literally finish your logo in less than five minutes.Type in the name of your company, your tagline, choose colors and fonts, add some icons and you are done.
Invision presents a great vision of how prototyping can work. It’s a bit difficult to work with at first, but learning is easy if you can take your time. The free plan could work sufficiently for you. It allows you have one prototype and comes with 128-bit SSL encryption and daily backups.
Name Mesh Use this if you are trying to figure out a name for your business. Type in two to three words that describe what your business does and you can get name suggestions. The tool will try many combinations and return a bunch of cool names you can choose from. It will also check if the domain names are available.
Designmatic is exactly like Squarespace Logo Creator, only simpler. Feed in your company name, choose what industry you are in and you get a selection of great custom logos in return.
Website/Blog Creation
WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool. To understand better, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. You can use the freemium when starting your business and it is simple to use.
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed to let anyone have a page online. It offers you an opportunity to start a blog. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com.
Email Management and Customer Interaction
MailChimp allows you to create newsletters easily. It also provides simple options for sharing them on social networks, making it your own personal platform for publishing your newsletter or emails. Build a list of the people whom you want to market your products to, and save the list for use later on, and create custom templates for your products so that you do not have to rewrite emails again and again.
Goodemailcopy Are you are blank when it comes to writing emails that express your thoughts and you are just looking for something to build on? Goodemailcopy is your problem solver. Goodemailcopy gives you access to email copies from popular startups. They are a good motivation for constructing your own original marketing and CRM emails.
Typeform enables you to create fancy surveys. It brings that human feel to online forms. It’s also more customizable when purchasing the premium version. You can make your forms personal features to it. It also offers analytics and collaborative options. The free version is all you need for your Startup.
Customer.io is the behavioural messaging platform for automating personalised customer communication. It’s cool for platforms that want to engage with customers based on their transaction pattern. The freemium allow you to send 400 emails a month to 200 people.
Invoicing and Payments
Paystack is a payments platform that makes the online payments process seamless for both the consumers and the businesses they are trying to pay. They make it easy for startups to accept credit and debit card payments online from customers. You don’t have to waste precious time on queues at the bank.
Kudi is an AI-powered chatbot that helps you with your finances just by asking her. Kudi uses an everyday conversational system to communicate with you. It helps you transfer money, keep track of your account details, buy airtime, pay recurrent bills such as GOTV, DSTV And PHCN and she also reminds you when some of this bills are due. From the comfort of your space, you can do your transfers.
Content Management
Grammarly helps you check for spelling and improve your communication. The perfect tool for those working on contents and you can add it as a plugin to your browser to help edit.
Hemingway makes your writing clearer. It’s like a spellchecker, but for the style. It makes sure that your reader doesn’t get mixed up in your language but focuses on the real content.
Design and Pictures
Canva is a tool loaded with enough easy-to-use features and functionality that anyone can create a variety of engaging content that gets shared. You don’t really need to have any skill in designing to be able to work on Canva. But if you do, it is an added advantage. It is good for Startups and if you want an advanced feel, you can go for premiums.
Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. Please beware of the creative commons.
Desygner allows you create banners, posters, invitations, Facebook covers business cards, social media posts & much more. You can easily create your designs without any supervision. It works like Canva, but has more depth.
Iconfinder Another super-useful tool for finding icons to use in your design projects. There are a couple of paid-for icons, but you’ll probably find a relevant icon for your work without having to pay anything.
Business Operations
Slack brings all your communication together in one place. Its real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams. You can create in between teams and other plugins work perfectly well. A good tool for communication.
Trello is a collaboration tool that organises your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process. Trello board is a list of lists, filled with cards, used by you and your team.
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams track their work progress. With tasks, projects, conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish. It is good for task and project management agencies.
Basecamp – It helps teams track tasks, set due dates for tasks and assign tasks to individuals on a team. It is similar to Asana.
Social Media and Feeds
Pocket was founded in 2007 by Nate Weiner to help people save interesting articles, videos and more from the web for later. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device — phone, tablet or computer. Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet.
Feedly is a news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customise and share with others.
Hootsuite is one of many tools referred to as a “Social Media Management System” or tool. It helps you keep track and manage your many social network channels. It can enable you to monitor what people are saying about your brand and help you respond instantly.
Buffer is great for scheduling content across different social platforms: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest. The Individual Plan is free and probably all you need at this stage, but you can also opt for any of their paid plans which range from $102 to $2,550 per year.
Tweetdeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts. Like other Twitter applications, it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. You can combine as many twitter handles and watch them on your dashboard. It is very easy to use and it has some level of analytics as well.
IFTTT lets you automate actions on the internet – between a website and an app; your smartphone and a gadget, name it. You can set it up to automatically tweet new content from your blog. Or collect tweets with a certain hashtag. It’s almost magical. IFTTT works via recipes that match triggers to actions. You can create these recipes themselves but there are ready-made recipes that users can simply customise
Analytics
Alexa exclusively delivers analytics on websites. Alexa does more than just track your site traffic. It provides you with actionable insights to help you compare your business with industry leaders, and optimize your business for the web.
Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics service on the Internet. It is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. It’s a powerful free tool that combines many functionalities including the Google Analytics Content Experiments and Google Analytics Cohort analysis which helps understand the behavior of component groups of users.
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