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Looking for opportunities in femtech

Version One Ventures

Some startups are coming up with financing plans, either a personal loan or through employers, to make the cost of fertility treatment cheaper. These options make fertility treatment more accessible to a certain population, but ultimately, the cost is simply being passed from one stakeholder to another.

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6 Risks For Taking A Side Door Into A Public Exchange

Startup Professionals Musings

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game.

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Basics of Bitcoin Trading and Mining

The Startup Magazine

It can be done on exchanges or through OTC (over-the-counter) trading. OTC trading is a way of buying and selling Bitcoin outside of an exchange. OTC trading is often used by people who want to buy large amounts of Bitcoin or who want to avoid the fees associated with exchanges. Visit meta-profit.net for further details.

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6 Considerations For Going Public Via Reverse Merger

Startup Professionals Musings

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game.

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Announcing our investment in Scanwell Health: making healthcare more accessible with accurate, at-home medical testing

Version One Ventures

It’s a future where these tests and care are effectively delivered as close to OTC (“over the counter”) as we can get (but can’t currently because treatment often involves regulated medications like antibiotics). and can also costs 100s of dollars. A young woman goes to urgent care to treat a UTI. This takes time away from work, etc.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

While questions remain around the long-term legal feasibility of such a solution, the larger point is that the speed and cost benefits of Lightning can now be abstracted away for the end user’s benefit without any knowledge of bitcoin the asset. . Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping.

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6 Hurdles For Going Public Through A Reverse Merger

Startup Professionals Musings

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game.

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