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Argentina Entrepreneurship, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

I’ve come down to Argentina with my friend and portfolio company CEO, Wences Casares , the founder of Xapo. Silicon Valley has the rare privilege and good fortune to be one of the most amazing entrepreneurial networks in the world. We’ve captured many of these lessons in my book Blitzscaling and my podcast Masters of Scale.

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The four waves of crypto disruption: where are they today? 

Version One Ventures

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. Given the stability of the US dollar, Bitcoin’s value proposition as a store of value may not be easy to grasp for the mainstream user in the U.S.

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The Important Role of Crypto Payments to Attract Freelancers

Transformify

The global freelance industry is booming. Elimination of Middlemen: Cryptocurrencies operate on a peer-to-peer network, eliminating the need for intermediaries like banks or payment services. This allows freelancers to widen their client base and tap into a global market. In 2022, it was valued at a staggering USD 4.4

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. That sounds great. It may also be expensive to do.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. In food you have the amazing food network Tastemade – the Food Network of online video. Indeed we are already seeing that online.

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Why it’s not easy to break into the Brazilian tech market – a chat with Boo-box’s Marco Gomes

The Next Web

Since the rise of Generation Y (or millennials), we changed the online behavior: we consume content and services from multiple sources, like blogs, social networks and online searches. TNW: Beyond Brazil you expanded into Argentina in 2011. Can you compete on a global scale? How has your expansion strategy developed?

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