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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Marketplaces / Social / Collaboration / Network Effects

boris May 20th, 2020

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. The assumption was that online platforms would completely automate all supplier-customer transactions including retailing, wholesaling, and procurement. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C…

Is this the crypto inflection point we’ve been waiting for?

Crypto / Blockchain

boris May 7th, 2020

If you spend a lot of time in crypto (like we do here at V1), it can be easy to lose sight of how non-crypto investors and entrepreneurs think about the space. The huge ICO run-up in 2017 brought a lot of attention to the vertical. Since then, many have…

BTC + DeFi = FTW

Crypto / Blockchain

Max Webster April 21st, 2020

I recently shared some thoughts about DeFi in light of recent market turmoil. While I remain extremely bullish on p2p finance in the long run, I believe there are at least 3 major questions to answer in the short term: 1) what blockchain/layer is most appropriate for DeFi scalability, 2)…

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