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The four waves of crypto disruption: where are they today? 

Version One Ventures

Disruption of financial markets. Disruption of every other information market. Wave 1: Store of value (product market fit). But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

ShopTranslated is a mass-market online retailer of plus-sized women's clothing, with merchandise in the $59-$99 range. And we already know that this is a very large market from working with La Grande Dame. First, if you are building a business catering to the local market (e.g. Google Adwords advertising. Or, bootstrap longer.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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Bitcoin: Resilience in Crisis

thebarefootvc

In the midst of highly volatile traditional financial markets, savvy investors are searching for new avenues for not only higher returns, but the best risk-adjusted ones as well. This pandemic seems to be a catalyst that has led investors to rethink their strategies and warm up to the idea of crypto and its underlying blockchain technology.

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Strategy Roundtable: Fall Call To Action

ReadWriteStart

In How Not To Sell Equity Too Cheap, Too Soon , entrepreneurs would find a discussion of what we recommend when it comes to selling incubation-stage equity. How to Become a Fundable Entrepreneur explains some of the issues we are seeing in the market. Please also read: The Myth About Seed Funding. Fool's Gold and the Real Deal.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Technology is changing the way we do business; crowd sourcing and social networks have become a default security system. Mr. Berk graduated from Emory University and began his career trading equities (not tools or electronics). One of them, Mimeo.com, i s a Deloitte Fast 50 Technology company that has made the Inc.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. They are competing in a very crowded and fragmented market but I’d say that for $10k, they’re off to a good start. Total cost: $5000.