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    Jason Fishman talks this week with Brad Yasar about how he was able to Test. Optimize. Scale. his companies.

    Brad is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and advisor who has started and bootstrapped several companies from inception to maturity over the past 20 years. Brad is currently the co-founder and Managing Partner of Beyond Enterprizes, a strategic crowdfunding advisory firm focusing on ICOs, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and token powered organizations.

    As the co-founder of Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC) with over 5 Billion dollars allocated to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and has access to extensive deal flow and experience analyzing disruptive technologies, Brad has participated in dozens of successful crowd sales, which have raised billions from 100,000s of investors since 2016.

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