Announcing our investment in Blockstack, The New Decentralized Internet
This is an exciting time for cryptocurrencies. As we recently wrote in Cryptocurrency’s Second Act, the rise of Ethereum revealed that cryptocurrency is not a winner-takes-all market. It has evolved from a sole player with a limited use case into an ecosystem with at least two cryptocurrencies at scale, and many others trying to get […]
Cryptocurrency’s second act: the rise of Ethereum and what’s in store for 2017
Back in 2009, Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency. 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. And, most thought that Bitcoin would emerge as the winner in this race. What happened? Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology, never […]
How Indiegogo Grew its Business
This is the fourth and final post covering speakers’ insights from our marketplace meetup held in San Francisco on October 20. If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies, Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces, and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich. The first […]
Growing your B2B marketplace
This is the third in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the V1 marketplace meetup on October 20. Check out other posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies and Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces. When we talk about marketplaces, we’re usually referring to B2C companies – eBay, […]
Should you move to a managed marketplace model?
On October 20, we hosted a marketplace meetup in San Francisco. More than 75 founders and investors joined us for the event – and for those of you who couldn’t make it, we will be sharing some of the key insights and discussions from the event in a series of posts (check out our first post […]