Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you want to feel bullish on how Lightning can be used as global payments rails, read this comprehensive essay by Nicolas Burtey of Galoy. TL;DR: The best analogue for Bitcoin itself is a global settlement layer like Fedwire (run by the Federal Reserve for interbank settlements with an average transaction size of $2 million).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2020

However, with so much uncertainty in real-world business models, many budding entrepreneurs are beginning to wonder if it’s possible to start an internet-only business – an online business that exists purely online, generating 100% of its funds over the internet. Our increasing reliance on the internet – for everything.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies that will have the biggest impact on technology and here’s the responses. #1- In every field, from medicine to real estate, the limits of VR are being tested as entrepreneurs find new ways to engage with customers. 1- Virtual reality. Photo Credit: William Griggs.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. Its easy-breezy business climate paired with incredibly fast Internet speeds, a lack of censorship and plenty of trading tycoons are all contributing factors its growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer. I love that.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Unemployment coupled with a stock market drop will stop this spending cold IMHO. If these factors impact earnings the stock market may be headed South – If unemployment rises housing prices won’t. This will likely cause the stock market to contract. The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5%

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I like the guy because he’s credited with coining the word entrepreneur. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

As you'll hear, BA became an entrepreneur without expecting to have to address such questions, but that's not how it's turned out. Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. I believe that.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). WSJ even points out that poor IPO performance “can be blamed primarily on the overall stock market” In fact IPO shares have outperformed the broader S&P 500 over comparable time periods.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Can you afford to have your starting engineering salary run your company at $130,000 per year plus stock and benefits? In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet. We couldn’t at my last company, Rover. The Real Question.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

as the global leader in technology. have started their own initiatives – Elon Musk – SpaceX and Starlink (reusable rockets and space-based broadband internet), Palmer Lucky – Anduril (AI and Machine Learning for defense), Peter Theil – Palantir (data analytics). In lieu of a coherent U.S.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

It doesn’t matter if it has been said before and repeated numerous times, quotes can give you the fire you need to be a better entrepreneur or learn how to handle a difficult situation. Below are some of those quotes sent in by entrepreneurs throughout the country. #1- 1- You don’t know what you don’t know. Photo Credit: Laurel Mintz.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2019

Yet I find in my business advisory activities that busy entrepreneurs and professionals, especially the introverts like me, find it hard to spend the necessary time networking and nurturing the relationships they need to get ahead. In fact, I believe that for all of us, relationships are our most important asset.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

For public investors in Facebook to achieve returns comparable to those of Microsoft shareholders, Facebook would need to reach a market cap of $500 trillion, a number that well exceeds the total global market cap of all listed stocks. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3% 1999-2000 51.6%

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. This hustle is familiar to entrepreneurs worldwide. Economics Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Technology Women Alibaba business china economics globalization india Jack Ma Narendra Modi women'

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981. She wrote Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy back in 2008 and now runs her own firm JLabs speaking and advising businesses on innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. SmartMoney.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

1) Open Internet . The promise of the Internet in my mind has always been to facilitate permissionless innovation, information exchange, and commerce among peers. As a child, the sharing and gift economy ethos of the early Internet resonated deeply with me. a relatively stable currency, stocks, bonds, etc.) Europe (e.g.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. Thanks to the internet, we have access to dozens of passive income ideas. Lessons from successful entrepreneurs. Good debt can make you wealthy.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

My conclusion was that I should have realized that the first person who pitched me on Airbnb wasn’t a great consumer internet investor, which means I should have realized that he might not describe the opportunity accurately. But I thought that if this actually works, it can have a global impact and generate virtually uncapped returns.”.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. The Global Small Business Blog. I often take stock in lieu of cash. Follow us on Twitter.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Startup Basics Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs? Branding From Entrepreneur to Icon in Five Steps. Young Entrepreneurs How I Did It: The TOMS Story. Business & Small Business.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. entrepreneurs targeting U.S. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. Global Best Practices.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The power of the internet has not only transformed the way that people interact with the world around them, but it has also completely changed the way that people today buy and sell goods and services. However, what I didn’t realize is that there are so many more ways of using the Internet to our advantage besides just trading stocks online.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. GENERATION D (Digital).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2014

By Topher Morrison, author of “ Collaboration Economy: Eliminate the Competition by Creating Partnership Opportunities ” You can’t log on to the internet right now without seeing some news about the confirmed, but still not really confirmed collaboration between Apple Inc. It’s all over the internet and easy to find.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Then ask questions of our panel of experts and mix and mingle with other EdTech entrepreneurs visiting for SXSW.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The stock was very well received, jumping 25% on its first day of trading. Today, the stock is still up 22% and the company is trading at a very healthy 4.2 internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. And because capital requirements are lower, entrepreneurs are holding onto more ownership, making it a lot easier to flip your company for less than, say, $30 million and become very rich. More cash equals more entrepreneurs who get to start companies.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

Although companies like Shutterstock, Fotolia and Getty Images have cornered the stock photos market, the industry is still extremely open for startup businesses to grow and thrive. Photos are among the most commonly stolen products on the internet. A large chunk of these sales are for the purpose of marketing and advertising.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Resilient Entrepreneur: How to Win in a Hostile Economy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Chris Guillebeau In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Chris Guillebeau, an entrepreneur, writer, travel enthusiast, speaker, and podcaster.

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