Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 11, 2023

This reality more or less necessitates that people looking to purchase Bitcoin use the Western banking system. Banks must be used to transfer USD from the buyer to the seller of Bitcoin. For the USD leg of a given transaction, the exchange requires a bank account. It is not easy for exchanges to obtain and retain bank accounts.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

But at some point, economies will recover, central banks will tighten the money supply, and interest rates will rise. We may see price inflation of consumer goods and labor too, although that is less clear. I went on to say that I had no idea when all of that would happen, but I was confident it would. Well, it happened in 2022.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2022

Lord Satoshi is a usurper at heart, and their love and wrath produce the externality of price volatility vs. fiat currencies and pure energy itself. The recent volatility surrounding the 1 USD peg of Terra’s USD stablecoin, UST, has prompted me to begin what will be a series of essays on stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CDBC).

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every one of these categories had had a really strong product, but banking was still exactly as they had been forever. And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs. Immad: Banking is a utility, right? Some people really hate their banks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. Buy your pass now and save $400 before prices go up at the door. The promise?

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Because you need a FEIN to open a bank account in your company’s name, to file taxes and for many other purposes. Step 3: Open a bank account. Bank selection is very important and way undervalued. You want a bank that will care about you as a customer because at some point you will need a business loan.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

To support growth and a return to form in a fiat, debt-backed, financialised economy, the Fed must reduce the price of money and expand its quantity. I will then calculate the average of all of these price predictions to yield an ETH/USD price prediction and expected value for 31 March 2023. Money printer go m **g “Brrrr”!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

It’s been a roller-coaster ride for the banking-as-a-service sector over the last year, with a host of mergers and acquisitions and layoffs. I believe [banking-as-a-service] is a potentially phenomenal growth space for banks to go after,” Accenture’s global banking lead, Michael Abbott, told TechCrunch+. million in June.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

Having seen the massive amount of paper the investment bank had gone through to update their daily trades and prices, Bloomberg used his $10 million severance package to build an independent IT solution, initially called Innovative Market Systems, to bring firms that needed it the same type of data and simple analytical tools.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Shares of Silicon Valley Bank are down sharply Thursday in the wake of the company’s announcement that it is raising additional capital by selling stock , taking a charge to roll over an asset portfolio to higher-yielding assets and extending its term-borrowing capacity. The executive asked VC clients to “stay calm. That’s my ask.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Southeast Asia is already home to a thriving fintech scene, where Grab , GoTo and Sea have built super apps that encompass financial services, and startups like Xendit , Akulaku and Dana (to name a few) have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for payments, banking services and other financial tools. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3%

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2023

You might think simple stuff like raising prices and pushing sales will boost your cash flow. If you can commit to 25,000, I’ll give you the bulk price, and you can pay as you go.”. So, even if you don’t have cash for a big bulk order, try committing to buying a large amount from a vendor and see if they’ll give you the bulk price.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

The Bear and his subjects once provided many essential commodities to the citizens of the realm at agreeable prices. We, the kingdoms of the Yen and the Euro, have deliberately kept our interest rates below inflation and engaged in the Yield Curve Control so that our banking and political systems may survive. and our heads may follow.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 2, 2022

It just wasn’t a good look for the bank. The Fed did such a good job crushing asset prices that the 2022 year-to-date return on the US 10-year treasury is the worst since 1788. The average person cares deeply about the prices of fuel and food. destroying fuel and food price inflation in the process. Booyakasha!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

This bass-ackwards energy policy does and will continue to produce high and rising fuel prices. Whether it’s goods or energy, the price is rising on the things we need in this post-pandemic existence. This is especially important because of how successful Bitcoin has been from a price appreciation standpoint.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

A hedge fund that was previously successful executing boring but stable yielding arbitrage strategies decided to strap on leverage to accelerate returns, and paid the price. The Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo investment banking scene is very close-knit. Bank A would quote me 1,000 / 1,001; Bank B would quote me 1,002 / 1,003.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Banks aren’t letting fintechs have all the fun when it comes to using technology, providing an opening for startups to show them what they got. In the same vein as companies like Flourish Fi , Treasury Prime , Savana and Amount offering software for banks, ModernFi is providing a marketplace for banks to exchange deposits on demand.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Banks are more and more careful with their own funding of development projects, which means they will also slow down payments on their own side,” Constrafor CEO Anwar Ghauche told TechCrunch. It also partnered with Stripe to offer a banking product and now has over 80 companies banking with them.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Some of Silicon Valley Bank’s customers are struggling to transfer funds out of their bank accounts, numerous sources tell TechCrunch. The bank also said that it was raising more capital, and investing into higher-yield products. The bank also said that it was raising more capital, and investing into higher-yield products.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Digital lenders that share personal data of loan defaulters, with third parties, risk license withdrawal in Kenya after lawmakers added a clause – granting the banking regulator the mandate to revoke permits of operators who breach customer confidentiality – to the new law passed by the country’s National Assembly. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As of late Thursday night and Friday morning, the fallout from the shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank in the US had reached the shores of the UK and Europe. Yesterday afternoon, the Bank of England sought a court order to place Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited — the UK arm of the US institution — into an insolvency procedure.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The rest of the purchase price was concocted from a brew of zero-coupon bonds (where the face value is many times the invested amount until the reduced cost bonds mature thirty years later), and borrowing using the target company’s accounts receivable and other assets as collateral for a loan to purchase the company. What power!

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The relationships between banks and fintechs are multi-faceted. Well, today, an announcement by global payments giant Visa is aimed at helping facilitate banks and fintechs’ ability to work together. So literally over $100 billion is going into fintech, which is more than the combined tech budgets of every bank in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Founders and venture capitalists aren’t the only ones experiencing volatility right now: Silicon Valley Bank employees are seeing their jobs in flux as their employer falls apart. Axios also published a story today , citing sources, stating that Silicon Valley Bank paid out annual bonuses to eligible U.S. their current salary.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

On Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced that it had taken over Silicon Valley Bank , and as we rushed to plan coverage, one of my colleagues succinctly described the situation: “This is historic s**t.” Bank runs are often ironic in that they can become self-fulfilling prophecies.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

TechCrunch Disrupt takes place in San Francisco on September 19–21, but if you want the best price and want to save up to $1,000, you need to buy your pass before prices increase. Check out the stages and the tech they cover. The deadline is Friday, March 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT , but why wait? Buy your Disrupt pass today !

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The sticky bit is price. When Substack wanted to go out and raise its next round of venture capital, it had to go through a pricing process. That price didn’t clear, given that the fundraising effort was called off. That’s pretty cool, frankly, and will provide its active users with a stake in their own platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Hi, Crunchers, Today, there’s only one story on everyone’s lips: The sudden and dramatic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 40-year-old Silicon Valley institution. With $209 billion of assets under management at the time of its failure, it’s the second-largest bank failure in U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Over just the last year or so, we’ve seen: In February 2020, LendingClub announced plans to acquire Radius Bank in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $185 million. million in a deal that was designed to accelerate its acquisition of a national bank charter. So what’s going on here?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. “The difference is that we purchase from the seller at a discount from the market price. and the U.K.,

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

The Penn boathouse sits on the picturesque banks of the Schuylkill River. This is the cause of just about every banking-led financial crisis. Prior to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers were true investment banks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

“Because of the disposable income left in apps [like Venmo], it takes over a week to transfer to your bank and then to your brokerage. New users who sign up for Staax link the new brokerage account to their bank account and make a list of their top five preferred stocks to receive.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

We’re flagging this one, folks, because you have just one week left to take advantage of early-bird pricing on all passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Seven days to save $800 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 tix Early-bird pricing ends Friday, May 12 at 11:59 p.m. Price now: $45.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The fintech, which refers to itself as a banking-as-a-service platform, says it uses AI to power financial services, particularly lending in emerging markets where over 1.7 Some partners include MTN, Airtel, Tigo, Ecobank, Absa, Letshego, Mansa Bank and Telenor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Wandia said that Kwara is helping them to run a modern banking business since with the right support they are banks waiting to happen. Right from the start, we decided to give our clients something that they could use to become a bank.”. “I About 175 credit unions are licensed in Kenya to serve nearly 4.1 last year to reach $5.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s data season, with groups like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), CB Insights, PitchBook and Crunchbase News putting out data sets that we’re having fun exploring. As is common from the bank’s publications, it’s a dense riff of charts and notes, ranging from economic data and trade figures to venture capital statistics.

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