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Taking A Long Term View Of Web3

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

On the one hand, tokens enable developers and users to contribute to open-source protocols and participate in the economic upside of doing so, leading to strong developer communities. Web3 is a software-driven innovation that has a built-in financial system. This has been both a strength and a weakness.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. raised money from VCs and 7.7% More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. .

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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What is the Best CRM and Marketing Tech Platform for a New Private Equity/Venture Capital Fund?

David Teten VC

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

Nym’s white paper, for example, touts the possibility for the tech being used to enable users to prove they have the right to access a service without having to disclose their actual identity to the service provider. “One of our core innovations is we scale by adding servers.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

I’ve written my share of ambitious e-books and white papers and things like that along the way. I’m sure you’ll ask me about AI or you’ll have your VC card revoked, right? I’m going to wrap it and I don’t want to get my VC card revoked. This is different, right?

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