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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

It’s also the first company we’ve helped incubate! We also invested in Guesser whose mission is to make prediction markets more accessible to mainstream users. And last but not least, we announced our investment in Celo , an open-sourced crypto-powered global payment platform.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. They called that program Eatsy.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. . “I want to see what you look like in a prison suit.”

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Rails deployment made easy AppHarbor – Heroku for.net jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library. Rails deployment made easy AppHarbor – Heroku for.net jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library. Simple editing.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Once you have a first version of your app running, you can use the tools on this site to get it into the hands of users and to get paid.” High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source).

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 4 Winning Strategies for Social Media.