Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2020

And as the crypto market expanded, we have seen permissionless innovation really take off. while users can only earn YPI tokens by using the yEarn yield aggregating tokens. YPI’s market cap went to dozens of millions of dollars in only a few weeks. We’ve written about the power of “money lego blocks” in defi.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. Others have chased earlier-stage but lack the skills or relationships to do this effectively. Some have moved into later stage investments in an effort to “put logos on their websites.&# In a bull market many players see drift in their activities.

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Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

But a lot of entrepreneurs and investors were hoping for a really strong showing to drive more liquidity in the market and continue the surge in hype around internet companies (both start-ups and later stage companies). Many of us have read about Nest or other home automation devices that are hitting the market now.

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Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” Our Talent Exchange isn’t meant to replace any of the recruiting technology or processes used by startups, nor should it be viewed as an alternative to some later-stage VC firms’ in-house recruiters.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. It’s a legitimate stage of financing in the venture eco-system as of this writing (October 2017). Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. At each turn, these market changes were heralded as wonderful developments for entrepreneurs. But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. Source App Annie ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. With the public markets down, these groups began writing down Unicorn valuations.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Might be kinda large market., Translation?

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

<$50K in aggregate. Given the craziness in the market at the seed stage and the lack of good Series A / Series B investment opportunities for a couple of years between 2007-2009, several of the institutional venture funds have tried to move ”downstream” to do more seed and angel stage deals. Lots, 20-100. Individual.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between. It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company. Tell us a little bit about your entrepreneurial experience. Jared Hecht: Wonderful.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

These changes would lead me to believe that simply aggregating supply and demand isn't enough of a function for angel groups to survive. In the public stock market, activist investors rally institutionals to affect change in the investing landscape--keeping boards in check. The Internet already does a pretty good job of that.

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