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Pitching A Blockchain VC

Venture capitalists (VCs) get pitched hundreds of times a year. And, even though countless articles have been written on the topic of how to present a startup to professional capital allocators, many encounters leave the VC disappointed. The following is a common sense outline on how to approach this process. While most of the points raised apply to any VC pitch, some of the topics are specific to technology investors and blockchain allocators in particular.

Full article on Forbes.com.

Blockchain and the Future Of Ownership

Before the widespread use of high-speed internet, distribution of software, music, and movies was mostly anchored in physical media. Buyers of CDs and DVDs could sell the albums they no longer wanted or movies they had seen in secondary marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon or locally on Craigslist. Today, software is widely sold as a service (SaaS) and media is rented or licensed to users in a purely digital form. As this digital content is easily copied, distributors can embed software into media to limit and monitor its usage.

My complete article can be found on Forbes.

Blockchain And Web 3.0 Investing

blockchain nvesting While entrepreneurs and analysts will frequently point to parallels between blockchain and internet solutions, references are often limited to the standout examples. This analysis aims to provide a more nuanced perspective for discerning capital allocators.

Complete article on Forbes.com.

World Wide Blockchain

Today, Google is the centralized window to the World Wide Web for citizens of all countries with the exception of China. Consistently used for more than 85% of global Internet “searches” (technically these are just queries against a proprietary index), the service purports to be a search engine. However, the term disguises the company’s true nature. Since 2015 Google is a profit center of the public holding company Alphabet Inc. While Google’s advertising business at present is more or less the only profitable enterprise of the holding company, the enterprise has demonstrated strong ambitions to extend its search – and with that its advertising – dominance over the World Wide Web and into all Internet-connected devices.More than a decade has gone by without serious attempts to challenge the market dominance of the company that claims to be on a mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. However, it is highly unlikely that Google – or any for-profit entity – will succeed in actually doing so.Search engines – and here specifically Google – are largely responsible for the majority of ad-copy disguised as information flooding the World Wide Web today. The advertising company’s pay-per-click incentive model has inadvertently created an entirely new industry that produces nothing of value: search engine optimization. Millions of people – often in low wage countries – spend their days creating poor quality content, hyperlinks to landing pages and comment spam in otherwise useful online magazines and forums.

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Blockchain Investing (ON:Chain19)

Presentation on Blockchain Investing at ON:chain19, Newport Beach, CA. May 23, 2019