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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. Year of Social Utilities.

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What will discovery look like in Web 3.0?

Version One Ventures

The initial discovery layer of the Web 1.0 As the web matured and scaled, two new and more web-native paradigms emerged: search and social. As the Internet is starting to evolve into Web 3.0, Right now, most of the discovery in Web 3.0 is driven by Web 2.0 And another approach to discovery in Web 3.0

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. " "Hit it."

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. What Do VC’s Do?

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

YoungUpstarts

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. Twitter has lost 34 percent of its value, which comes to $8.6 billion of shareholder money.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 The first internet wave managed to solve pretty well the "Where to buy" problem, with sites like Kelkoo , Shopzilla , NextTag , PriceGrabber, or Shopping.com.