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Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Apple Podcasts
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podcasts.apple.comIt was March 26, 2012. Brian Armstrong posted a self-described “hail mary” on the tech discussion forum Hacker News. YCombinator was interested in his startup, which Armstrong wrote “brings an emerging tech to the masses…and has a good shot at changing the world.” But he had a big problem - he didn’t want to go at it alone, and kept striking out on... See more
Olivia Moore • How Coinbase gave away BTC to get its first users
Instead of hoping for 2–3 VCs to constitute the round, we inverted the process, starting with private individuals and using their enthusiasm to show VCs what we were worth.
How We Just Raised $6M At An $80M Valuation From 100+ Investors Using A Link (Without Pitching)
His access to a pool of willing effective altruists was his secret weapon. Sam knew next to nothing about crypto, but he did know how easy it was to steal it. Anyone who started a crypto trading firm would need to trust his employees deeply, as any employee could hit a button and wire the crypto to a personal account without anyone else ever having
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
This means crypto is democratizing access to otherwise private investment opportunities — I think this is pretty cool. But crypto projects still want access to VC capital and expertise. Good VC investors can provide a lot of value and help projects grow and succeed.