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An Era of Fundamental and Massive Change - The Capital Markets Innovation of the ICO

Tomasz Tunguz

In December 2017, the amount raised in ICOs nearly equaled the amount raised by Series A investments globally. Today, the protocol must be detailed in a white paper. About a third of the ICOs in 2017 raised some form of institutional capital before ICO. The ICO market today bears many similarities to the dotcom era.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

TechCrunch

Since the average friends and family round is $23,000, “they’d need to secure the entire liquid wealth of six Black families” for parity, according to a white paper by venture fund Fifth Star. Now, the company has 50 employees, plans to open a cat café and is eyeing an expansion into retail.

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What’s your VC tech stack? Results from a survey of early-stage VC funds

David Teten VC

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Some 17% have spent in excess of $50k in the same year.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Tested TAM tips, no-code tech survey, writing crypto white papers

TechCrunch

When Intel bought Mobileye in 2017, the chipmaker paid about $15.3 Hire a writer and a lawyer before releasing a cryptocurrency white paper. Writing a white paper used to be an academic pursuit, but for crypto startups, these documents are drafted with investors in mind. Trisha Kothari, co-founder and CEO, Unit21.

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Blockchain startup Propy plans first-ever auction of a real apartment as a collectible NFT

TechCrunch

In an interview with me, Karayaneva said: “We were brainstorming and this appeared to be a natural development of our white paper of 2017. This process is repeated every time the NFT attached to the property is resold.