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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

We dive deep into white papers, review technology, economics, game theory, etc. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. In 2014 he launched what was the first cryptoasset venture fund, the Dapps Fund. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce.

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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

Just six months ago, VCs were publishing white papers extolling the virtue of non-bank lending startups, but now no one will touch them with a 10-foot pole. It’s actually hard to find an investment thesis that was hot in 2014 that hasn’t had a corresponding disillusionment today. Whatever happened to IoT after Nest?

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The State of Small Business [INFOGRAPHIC]

Up and Running

That’s why earlier this year, we wrote a white paper on the state of small business in the first quarter of 2014, based off of the survey that we conducted of nearly 400 small business owners. Business planning and tracking financial metrics proved to directly contribute to the success of established businesses.