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- In the past, there have been many attempts at disrupting venture capital:
- The proliferation of angel investors (AngelList, 2010)
- Enactment and regulation of equity crowdfunding (Jobs Act, 2012)
- Cryptonative crowdfunding via token sales (2013)
from Unbundling the unit economics of venture capital via DAOs by Medium
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- To create stronger community ownership, web 3.0 networks should move away from resourcing startup capital from centralized, opaque, and hierarchical VCs
from Ways to improve the ownership economy — Mirror by Austin Robey
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- This raises broader questions about the tech ecosystem and its investment model. I’ve been making the case for a long time that the natural endpoint is likely very large platforms and Aggregators on one-side, and a flourishing ecosystem focused on niches on the other, but implicit in the latter is that venture capital is not simply unncessary, it i... See more
from Brandless Closes, The DTC Facebook Challenge, DTC Versus Softbank by Ben Thompson
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