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Doubling Down: Peter Berg, Managing Partner at M12

SaaStr

At the time, a lot of people were very skeptical because our investment in Chain was the first blockchain investment by any major payments network. To me this is a shining example of the type of extremely high leverage outcomes made possible by Corporate Venture Capital if you genuinely work to partner with your portfolio companies.

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Tokens as CAC - Are Crypto Companies More or Less Efficient in Acquiring Customers?

Tom Tunguz

When a user spins up a validator to verify transactions on a blockchain, stresses the testnet and is rewarded with tokens, stakes tokens to generate yield, burns tokens to transact, or receives an airdrop for tweeting, a cryptoco expends tokens to acquire a customer. For Edison, Tungsten worked best.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. She has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Asia in Finance and Venture Capital for 2018. The reason? Because, as she says, building a startup is simply much more fun. Hande Cilingir.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Chelpis creates quantum-proof tech for cryptocurrency and blockchain. Chelpis offers a crypto product with a cold wallet, a blockchain solution, and software service. Based in: Hong Kong.

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Why I’m Joining Balderton as an Executive-in-Residence (EIR)

Kellblog

Without singing his praises to excess, let’s just say that there aren’t many people in the world who have founded an enterprise software company, took it to $1B+ in revenues, then co-founded a second company ( Dashlane ), turned that company into a unicorn, and followed all that with a highly successful second career in venture capital.

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On Startups, Platforms, and Innovation

Andreessen Horowitz

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by managing partner (and former chairman of the board of the National Venture Capital Association) Scott Kupor to the FTC as part of their hearings — with various professors, policymakers, industry representatives, and other …

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The 15 Best SaaS Blogs To Learn New Techniques and Make Data-Driven Decisions [+ SaaS Bloggers & Influencers]

User Pilot

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Brad Feld blog is one of the best venture capital blogs dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors. They also provide valuable information on data analysis and blockchain. Venture capital.