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Opportunity is everywhere: we’re now investing worldwide

Version One Ventures

From the start, we have limited ourselves primarily to startups within North America, with a handful of exceptions: Nexus Mutual and Drover (UK), Guesser.com (Spain), and Headout (India). You’ve probably heard the phrase “Talent is equally distributed. Geography no longer controls where you can build a successful company.

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Regulatory arbitrage in crypto

Version One Ventures

Unfortunately for the Valley (and North America in general), a few regions have embraced this approach with cryptocurrencies and we are seeing more and more crypto companies coming out of the UK, Malta, Singapore, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions that are more friendly towards crypto than the US or Canada are. .

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Having founded and published the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path. As the third U.S.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. How are you planning to sell Blazemeter?

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The cologne and perfume industry is approximately a $25 billion industry in North America that is forecast to grow exponentially. Manufacturers typically deal with distributors, who distribute their products to jobbers and wholesalers, who in turn resell the products to the end seller (i.e. malls & department stores).

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