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The Fog of War: Three Themes Crypto Investors Should Pay Attention To Now

thebarefootvc

The unspeakable violence and aggression that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine and its people is the first all out “hot war” invasion in Europe since WWII. Closely related to point number 1, while we’ve seen tests of Bitcoin’s above narrative over the past 10 years, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought it to the forefront.

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Ukraine, Estonia, Chile, Finland: The saga of four accelerators

The Next Web

Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models. At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through.

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21 Entrepreneurs Share How They’re Incorporating Corporate Service Responsibility (CSR) In Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

For example, in April of 2022, we donated 10 tonnes of aid to Ukraine. Hence operates on four principles- equity, access, design, and rewards. #10- Funding scholarships Photo Credit: Samuel Leach CSR has always been an aspect of Samuel and Co Trading, and we are always keeping an eye on social issues both globally and locally.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

He pushed for excellence but in the process promoted equity and balance, as he gave talented women a chance to succeed. Dr. Oksana Malysheva was born and raised in Soviet Union, Ukraine. Today I am the managing partner of two VC funds, and I always think of Geoffrey as forever the example of a true male ally. Who is your male ally?

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

While they can outspend you, a startup offers real ownership (equity/options), more impact per employee, and the chance to change the world/industry. Then there’s the war in the Ukraine, rising energy prices, inflation, climate change, pandemic and who knows what other curve balls will be thrown our way.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. You know, a lot of times, what we hear is: “Hey, what does the company do is $5 billion of equity value is $10 billion.” So inflation is always one where it’s not fun. There can be all kinds of different knock-on effects from it.

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UK venture post Brexit – plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

The Equity Kicker

Grexit, Russia/Ukraine and terrorism spring to mind as recent examples. There are risks to that prediction, but for most of the time since 2008 we have had geopolitical risks hanging over us. Here in the UK we now have to add ‘hard exit’ to the list, but new risks intensify and weaken, and come and go.

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