by Das Tor | Mar 15, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Crypto, Finance, Global Affairs, Global Business Insights, Technology, Venture Capital, Voices of Thunderbird
If you’ve been keeping up with the news at all over the last couple of months, you are bound to have heard about the sensational collapse of FTX. Founded in 2019, FTX enjoyed meteoric success before collapsing in less than a week in November 2022 and declaring...
by David Lugo Robles | Feb 2, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Finance, Global Affairs, Global Business Insights, Thunderbird School News, Venture Capital, Voices of Thunderbird
Having started three startups in pharmaceutical, agriculture, and herbal medicine in my home country, Zimbabwe, and realizing that there was no funding and connections big enough to grow startups to the level I expected, I started to wonder if the time was right for...
by Das Tor | Jan 8, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Global Business Insights, Voices of Thunderbird
Last year in December, Gibson Sigauke, MGM ‘23 graduate student at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, presented his company, Xiga Money, at the ASU Venture Devils Demo Day (Fall 2022) and made a winning presentation, securing $10,000 in seed funding. Xiga...
by David Lugo Robles | Oct 3, 2022 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Finance, Global Business Insights, Technology, Voices of Thunderbird
The world has revolutionized the way money is exchanged over the years. From Electronic Fund Transfer (EFTs) started by Western Union to the use of electronic banking systems at all bank branches to making the transfer by simply using the phone. The way payments are...
by Das Tor | Oct 3, 2022 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Finance, Global Business Insights, Technology, Voices of Thunderbird
Blockchain technology is a distributed database that allows for secure, transparent, and tamper-proof transactions. Transactions are verified by all network nodes, making it difficult for hackers to hack into the system. The technology is still in its early stages,...
