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2018: Year in review and a look ahead

Version One Ventures

After the 2017 price run up, reality set in during 2018; both BTC and ETH value plummeted. Lots of ICOs and capital poured into the frenzy of this market in 2017. If you’re enthusiastic about these themes as an entrepreneur, investor, or operator, please reach out! Crypto/blockchain. Some say that we are in “crypto winter.”

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

and launched in April 2017. Operational inefficiency due to lack of information and control. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. 30% have been operated by females, 70% have been operated by males. United Capital Source was selected in the 2015 & 2017 Inc.

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Home Is Where the Innovation Is

View from Seed

If a man from 1987 stepped into a time machine and emerged in 2017, he would find the modern world fantastically different in many ways. If you are a founder who is looking to use digital technologies to redesign the way we live and how the housing industry operates, please have a conversation with us. Source: Google Finance).

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. To capture any material part of the $400B that Cook is forecasting, Snap will need to control the underlying operating system on which the glasses function.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 billion smartphone users in 2012.

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