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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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Brexit - The Turning Point

Transformify

. “It is too early to say what the ultimate outcome of the referendum result will be, but even prior to this we were concerned about a weakening UK economy combined with high valuations of domestic cyclicals,” said Nick Purves of RWC Partners. The initial turmoil experienced on markets will not persist ad infinitum.

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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. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.

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

Steve Blank

Others are cutting their valuations. Ask yourself: Are there now new customers, new services and new channels to pursue? If appropriate, offer to sign a longer agreement in exchange for lower cash payments in 2020 and 2021. If you were expecting angel or venture funding get on the phone to your investor(s).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

ReadWriteStart

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. We also discussed Dan's options vis-Ă -vis channel partners. If that does happen, I would say the investors will have done extremely well. Social Pulse.

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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? Allbirds’ expanding appeal, range of products, and distribution channels could attract Walmart. Furthermore, RichRelevances’s most recent fundraise in 2016 was at a flat valuation (of roughly $230M) which could signifiy it may be looking for an exit. Scroll down to see the list.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Her Entrepreneur Journeys book series, Entrepreneur Journeys , Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction , Positioning: How To Test, Validate, and Bring Your Idea To Market Innovation: Need Of The Hour , as well as Vision India 2020 , are all available from Amazon.