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The four waves of crypto disruption: where are they today? 

Version One Ventures

Disruption of financial markets. Disruption of every other information market. Wave 1: Store of value (product market fit). But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

ShopTranslated is a mass-market online retailer of plus-sized women's clothing, with merchandise in the $59-$99 range. And we already know that this is a very large market from working with La Grande Dame. First, if you are building a business catering to the local market (e.g. Google Adwords advertising. Or, bootstrap longer.

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Bitcoin: Resilience in Crisis

thebarefootvc

In the midst of highly volatile traditional financial markets, savvy investors are searching for new avenues for not only higher returns, but the best risk-adjusted ones as well. As investors try to navigate the COVID-19 world, they’re taking a hard look at their portfolios and solving for the new normal. and the DJIA was down 10%.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. They are competing in a very crowded and fragmented market but I’d say that for $10k, they’re off to a good start. Total cost: $5000.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7 The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others. Its main customers include China’s Huawei Technologies, Israel’s Ceragon Networks and Sweden’s Ericsson.

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Strategy Roundtable: Fall Call To Action

ReadWriteStart

In How Not To Sell Equity Too Cheap, Too Soon , entrepreneurs would find a discussion of what we recommend when it comes to selling incubation-stage equity. How to Become a Fundable Entrepreneur explains some of the issues we are seeing in the market. Please also read: The Myth About Seed Funding. Fool's Gold and the Real Deal.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Mr. Berk graduated from Emory University and began his career trading equities (not tools or electronics). After studying Biotechnolo gy at London University, he worked in over 18 countries on the production side of the film business, setting up desert camps in Jordan, managing huge projects and teams from India to Argentina.

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