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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

Whereas in 2016 I struggled to come up with one, and whereas in 2017 it was obvious it was Coinbase, with 2018 comes the most money poured into U.S. In 2018, it was that kind year. This is the company, in my opinion, which only first appeared on the radar of most investors in 2018. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Reflecting On Haystack’s Investment In HelloSign (Acquired By Dropbox)

Haystack

Over five years ago, as I began to deploy the first Haystack Fund, I was lucky to select HelloSign as my sixth investment ever. I took Joseph out for lunch, told him about me and Haystack, and asked to invest in the company. In early 2014, Docusign became a unicorn and eventually went IPO in 2018 at a whopping $4.5B

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Columbus-based Tribevest bags $3M for its collaborative investing platform

TechCrunch

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On One deal led to another, Smith said, and the wealth the group created eventually gave him the financial freedom to launch his own company, Tribevest, in 2018.

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How We Turned Our Biggest Setback Into an Innovation Opportunity

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It was the beginning of 2018, and my agency had just lost two of our biggest accounts. Once the new processes were in place, we documented everything, so we could make continuous improvements and scale once the business model began to work. Before, we didn’t have anything documented. Everything was ad hoc.). And the Results?

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. The two parties didn’t disclose the size of the investment. The promise of managing identity on the blockchain.

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The Importance of Due Diligence when Investing in Startups

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It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Before committing to an investment, it is important to understand what you are buying and what you are getting into. On the angel investing platform, this component is called Broker Review. What is due diligence?