Enrichment
Powa: The Sorry Tale of a British Unicorn
Gavin Simpson
25th March 2016
In business, investors are continually looking for the next big idea and in the case of Powa (a British tech start-up), they offered a new way of paying for products through the use of their revolutionary "PowaTag" system. Read how they transformed into a Unicorn (a company worth over a billion pounds) before falling into administration in just a few years.
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