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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

venture funds - and with so many of them pursuing similar deal sourcing strategies and approaches - it has become extremely difficult for VCs to find and secure high potential, well priced deals. With now over one thousand active U.S. Little discussed in most venture fund models are the high costs of deal sourcing, diligence, and oversight.

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Greatly Improve Your Real Estate Business By Using Blockchain Technology

YoungUpstarts

By using a decentralized distributed ledger, people feel a lot more secure than with the centralized method. In addition to that, the blockchain allows for complete transparency throughout the entire operations, which in turn helps you build trust with your tenants. Minimizing the Use of Physical Paper Trails.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Teten: How is the corporate VC model evolving: in how they interact with portfolio companies or the operating side of their organization? Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. They used to come in at series B and later.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Mr. Steve Hensley , Executive Vice President at KAL Software , a global software company operating at the forefront of the ATM industry. Q2 Holdings is a leading provider of secure, cloud-based digital banking solutions. What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

online, over the phone), but that will only happen if Visa/MC accept these systems as having comparable security and choose to create lower interchange categories for these card capture mediums. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations.

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