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2021: The Version One year in review

Version One Ventures

2021 might be remembered as the year the world started to fully embrace the opportunity that the technology sector has to offer… . Every company is now a tech company and multiple technology cycles are going on at the same time – from mobile and cloud to AR/VR, crypto and climate.

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

YoungUpstarts

Due to the free-flow of information, buyers have become fiercely independent. They get data from traditional sources, such as analysts and industry publications, but they’re also connected with social media, peer networks and review sites. Three years later their IPO valued the company at more than $2 billion.

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Book: Where The Jobs Are

Feld Thoughts

Launch an Education Reform Dialogue Among America’s Educators. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. Enhance the Science and Technology Capacity of the U.S. Require Third-Party Review of All Proposed Regulations. Jump-Start America’s Trade Agenda. Award “Graduation” Green Cards.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger. Pick-up times.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. To be clear Airbnb posted a GAAP profit in Q3 2020 of over $200M which is impressive given travel remains materially depressed due to COVID. Airbnb’s public S-1 dropped Monday afternoon.