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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. This means that private keys — the keys that literally control the money — never touch the Internet. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012.

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Growing our team: V1 is hiring an associate

Version One Ventures

Since 2012, we have made over 40 investments and have been busy building our fund, expanding and deepening our network, and most gratifyingly, working with our portfolio companies in their pursuit to transform their industries and the world. Ideally, prior design or programming experience or work in an investment or Internet-related position.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Final Close: The Story Behind NextView's Own Fundraise ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

February 21, 2012. We recently completed the final close of NextView Ventures, LP and we’re excited about both our progress to date and our plans for the future. We make initial investments of $250-500K in the seed rounds of software and internet startups and reserve capital for follow-on rounds. And Why 20%?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. I feel safe in knowing that I was one of the few who publicly called b t.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? I'm curious. BA : Yeah.

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