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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

While Ethereum based DeFi has stolen the show for most of 2020 – and rightly so, the amount of innovation and experimentation happening there is insane! > 36,000 public channels . > The market for mobile gaming is insanely large and growing quickly: >$77B in 2020 with >10% YoY growth.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. Others are cutting their valuations. How many months of cash do you have?

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

After all, in the year 2020, investors that had access to VC-backed IPOs, earned $206 million in average one-day gains for each of 165 separate offerings, for a total of $34B in one-day wealth transfers (including over-allotments). “Hot Last year, 2020, the AVERAGE IPO was underpriced by 47.9%! Thousands of companies over 39 years.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing

ReadWriteStart

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. million in revenue.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion, which at the time seemed laughably high and now seems prescient.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

ReadWriteStart

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. At this point, Greg is in the process of bringing in two additional investors, and the primary topics of our discussion were valuation and ROI issues around the new investors.

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

How will we shop in 2020? In grocery, which represents over half of Walmart’s revenues, it plans to add 1,000 online grocery order pickup locations in 2018 in stores around the US; in December 2017 it unveiled a meal kit option and a partnership with Buzzfeed that will integrate Buzzfeed recipes with Walmart groceries. .