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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. No startup ownership or financial return should be expected, but contributors can enjoy the satisfaction of furthering non-profits or causes with a passion to change the world.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Spatial computing – with the launches of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 a new personal computing platform may evolve over the next decade.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. No startup ownership or financial return should be expected, but contributors can enjoy the satisfaction of furthering non-profits or causes with a passion to change the world.

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

Will they accept an open-source state channel? They will demand an open-source code saying that this is the only way to achieve verifiability and trustless operations. Open source has many advantages, but its biggest strength is in the community development. But why isn’t this happening? Last Words.

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The end of ownership: The zero-marginal-cost economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert created Drupal, an open source content management platform, in his dorm room. The sharing and collaboration practices of the internet are extending to transportation (Uber), hotels (Airbnb), financing (Kickstarter, LendingClub), music services (Spotify) and even software development (Linux, Drupal).

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Announcing our investment in Gadze Finance

Version One Ventures

While traditional finance offers few options for product differentiation, decentralized finance (DeFI) is the opposite. That’s why we’re excited to announce our investment in Gadze Finance. Gadze’s ultimate vision is to democratize finance by providing access to custom investment products to anyone.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year!