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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on. We invest in both B2B and consumer companies that aspire to shape the lives of millions of mass market end users.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Of course, a certain amount of initial capital without financial performance is absolutely necessary to get a business off the ground, especially in regulated industries. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. This also applies in acquisition conversations.

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SXSW Startups: CargoX

Austin Startup

CargoX has developed a decentralized platform based on the Ethereum network, and their Blockchain Document Transaction System (BDTS) technology, and it has a pipeline of future products for the supply chain industry?—?among among them the Smart L/C and other trade finance solutions, and Smart Air Waybills for the air freight industry.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President.

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Got "Founder Fit?" If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It

Up and Running

From the outset of the conversation, Boris was careful with his words, collected. Id gone into the conversation thinking that Boris and his firm were actively trying to help close the gender gap, or that at the very least there was a clear-cut reason behind their investment choices. Avoid those investors..

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. I thought I would come and there would be just massive buildings, really like technology infrastructure and squeeze everybody.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital.