Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency. In the past year, we learned that Bitcoin probably has a large enough worldwide distribution that it’s hard to stop.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study and other sources : Targeted marketing.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Legal cannabis generated $16 billion in total economic output in the United States in 2017, and research indicates it will increase 150 percent by 2021, according to a report from cannabis industry analysts Arcview Market Research , in partnership with BDS Analytics. The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

WPP and Kantar Millward Brown just released their latest BrandZ report on the most valuable global brands. The 2017 Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report offers important branding lessons for startups and small business. percent global share of that market in 2016.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 13, 2017

Gregg Fraley and Karen Kirby, copyright 2017. We constantly witness the global reach and influence of social media. Does Any CEO Have the Luxury to Ignore Digital Transformation and Innovation? Innovation + Business + Technology = Digital Leadership. Turnover of CEOs is already high, about 14.9 % a year as of 2016*.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. Ok, Suster.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2019

That’s right they are working with The Chemours Company, a global leader in fluorochemicals and refrigerant technology, to produce and distribute a new refrigerant to North America. The infamous company claims that the new gas has a lower Global Warming Potential.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. And I think businesses are going to figure out more and more how to do that as well.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

They distribute the content via established Platforms that help them reach and grow an audience such as Twitch, Youtube, Tiktok, SubStack, OnlyFans etc, and more often than not, they build following in more than one of these channels and benefit from cross promotion (i.e. ” Bootstrapped and Global from Day One: The Story of Linktree.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Tankee was built from the beginning to be a global platform. My prior experience leading a global team opened my eyes to gaming as a social community that breaks down barriers. We will soon add new languages and locations as we expand distribution. We started working on the idea and investigating the market in mid 2017.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Our Chairman and co-founder Alex Allegue pitched Pawame in the global finals of last year’s Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, Pawame having already won the Africa category. I joined in March 2017. What other goals does Pawame have for the event? Win the competition, get inspired, and have fun! How about underrated?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more. How many do you already practice today?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

His book Digital Human (2017) championed the concept of prioritizing humans in the digital transformation. So the contributor, and we see that in our global talent trends, you might know that we do annual of course, surveys on what is trending and what people expect. Kai has spent years guiding organizations throughout Europe.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. 11) Exit .

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

More importantly, Millennials and Generation Z consumers generated 85 percent of the global luxury growth in 2017. Surprisingly, online multibrand high-end retail plays a critical role at the initial engagement stage of product research — acting as as a brand awareness channel.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2019

In the annual 2017 Fortune 500 listing, including ten ranked biopharmaceutical companies , not one was led by a female CEO or had a female Chairman of the Board. In 2008, she established Confirm BioSciences, a global leader in quality diagnostic health & wellness testing solutions.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is Giving Tuesday on November 28, 2017, a day to help make up for all the consumerism that we take part in and to think about others who may be less fortunate. Both individuals and organizations can take part in the annual global giving movement. In 2015, there was $1.77

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel. billion in revenue in 2021, an 8x increase over a five year period, representing 5% of the global gaming revenue.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For start-ups looking to achieve leadership positions in emerging and highly competitive global markets, it makes sense to prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty. John’s top-line OKR in Speed and Scale is to contain global warming to no more than an increase of 1.5 Then, there’s climate change.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

According to data from eMarketer, “More than 62% of the world’s internet users will view digital video in 2017, up from 60.8% Create a Video Distribution and Delivery Strategy. Building your business via video outreach is an awesome goal, but without a defined video distribution strategy, your efforts may all be for naught.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Too much emphasis was on Averages (remember averages suck, distributions are better ). This is real, from last week: " Our 2017 goal is to reduce the cost of your display campaigns by 20%. " Are your little team, or your giant division, solving for the global maxima? ACT goals were set imprecisely. Revenue Per Human.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2017

Today’s always-on, e-commerce-driven global economy is creating a brave new world known as the fourth industrial revolution, or ‘Industry 4.0’ – and businesses need to rapidly adapt to avoid being left behind. global survey anticipated return on investment in just two years [11]. Industry 4.0 Embracing innovation. . 10] “ Industry 4.0:

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

The global healthcare industry is in flux like never before. Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 billion in 2017 YTD (as of May 22, 2017). Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 billion in 2017 YTD (as of May 22, 2017).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. It’s a great business.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 2, 2018

In his fireside chat with Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton started his remarks talking about the promise of distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain). We are also able to benefit from the global nature of this sector with regulatory “experimentation” in different jurisdictions around the world.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. January 2015 – #paid opens the doors to all SMBs globally. June 2017 – #paid works with 20+ Fortune 100 brands.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017).

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

I waited for the ‘casino-like’ world of startup investing until I was 28 years old, putting $10,000 into a friend’s software distribution company – a tidy sum for me at that age. to-date, since we launched in 2017. We think global from the outset. 16 years later, seven other companies globally use that same name!

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Global and Local. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To succeed, we will need innovation that is both original and deployed at global scale. Or these business models might just fund the global availability of products and services with minimal profits. That’s how we’ll produce and distribute more food. Networks of distribution. Networks of capital.

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