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6 Risks For Taking A Side Door Into A Public Exchange

Startup Professionals Musings

Most public shells ready for sale are not listed on a national securities exchange, but are instead traded in a less glamorous setting, such as the OTC Bulletin Board. Reverse mergers may not get your startup on the Nasdaq. Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought.

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Cryptocurrency’s second act: the rise of Ethereum and what’s in store for 2017

Version One Ventures

The prevailing thinking then was that the cryptocurrency market was going to be a winner-takes-all race due to the strong network effects around mining. While still very early, Ethereum has also unlocked new use cases, like decentralized storage (https://sia.tech/) and decentralized prediction markets ( https://www.augur.net/).

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6 Considerations For Going Public Via Reverse Merger

Startup Professionals Musings

Most public shells ready for sale are not listed on a national securities exchange, but are instead traded in a less glamorous setting, such as the OTC Bulletin Board. Reverse mergers may not get your startup on the Nasdaq. Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought.

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How Do Pink Sheets Stocks Work And Are They Any Good?

YoungUpstarts

“Pink sheets” are stocks that are trading in the over the counter (OTC) markets. Over the counter markets are well known for small cap stocks. Pink sheets and penny stocks go hand in hand, and the name pink sheets often means penny stocks to many people. What are Pink Sheets?

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I was at a crossroads in my career and debating about starting my own sales and marketing consulting business. I’ve come up with my business name: Ebooks4fashion, because I wanted to create a platform of fashion marketing that helps fashion entrepreneurs, most women to start or to grow their business, through ebooks and online courses.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Bitrefill makes it easy for anyone to buy gift cards and phone minutes (a big use case in emerging markets) instantly using Lightning. The market for mobile gaming is insanely large and growing quickly: >$77B in 2020 with >10% YoY growth. But that’s a discussion for another time ?? . 2) Gaming . At least not yet.

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Q1 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

Coinbase is bringing together its custody services and its OTC desk to allow users to trade directly out of cold storage. This means that clients no longer need to transfer their assets online and onto the exchange to complete an OTC trade. You can read more about Galaxy on their blog. Placenote SDK 1.6.12 Fundraising and accolades.

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