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Hollywood, blockchain, startups, VC, growth, and more đź•ş

Hollywood, blockchain, startups, VC, growth, and more đź•ş
By Nick Frost • Issue #4 • View online
Happy Thursday! 
Mini life update: After living in the Bay Area for 6 years, I left San Francisco and moved to Hollywood, CA at the end of October.
Since moving to LA, I’ve joined CoinCircle.com to do marketing, PR, and community building for CoinCircle and its clients. This company is in the blockchain, crypto, token market. Yes, I’m on “the crypto train”. Joining a blockchain related company wasn’t something I aimed for, but the opportunity to join CoinCircle came up, so I accepted the challenge of paving new roads in the Wild West that is the crypto market. 
As I learn about it, I’ll share resources and insights with you. Feel free to reply or tweet me with topics you’d like me to dig in to.
This newsletter features recommended reading from startup investors, startup operators, marketing/ growth experts, and, of course, blockchain industry updates.

From Startup Investors đź’°
Startup Investors include angel investors, venture capitalists, Private Equity, Limited Partners, and startup funding roles.
This is our third and final post on Series A investing. As a quick recap, in addition to direct growth-stage investing, Sapphire Ventures invests in early-stage venture funds, specifically those…
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At Greylock, we partner with companies “from startup to scale-up”. This means, we back entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of a starting company, and help them build their company through hyper…
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The crypto markets had a good day yesterday but have been down a lot since peaking in early January. Bitcoin peaked at almost $20,000USD in mid December and has gone down by roughly 60% since then. Ethereum peaked at almost $1400 in mid January and has gone down by roughly 40% since then.
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There are seven key stages in a startup’s evolution from $0m to $50m in revenue. Understanding where you are in that evolution, and how to act at each stage is critical for success.
www.forentrepreneurs.com  •  Share
Last year ICOs raised $5 billion across 800+ projects and even more are expected this year. There is a lot of enthusiasm but still more questions than answers. One of the pressing questions is how…
hackernoon.com  •  Share
From Startup Operators ⚙️
Startup Operators can range from founders to employees in operations, sales, marketing, design, engineering, product, HR, finance, and other relevant roles.
Knowledge enables us to solve problems big and small. Over the last four decades, an explosion of communal knowledge has led to drastic improvements in our quality of life. What if this is only the beginning?
So, Andy Sparks and Joshua Levy, would like you to meet Holloway. “We believe we have a shot at making reliable access to trustworthy knowledge the standard, not the exception.”
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You may be tempted to listen to the feedback after receiving some NO’s and think you just need to launch your product, change your business model, or grow your customer base, and then you’ll be more attractive to investors. Ooshma Garg and Danielle Morrill, both partners at XFactor Ventures help you get comfortable with receiving NOs and deciphering what they really mean.
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Scott’s Cheap Flights grew from 5,000 subscribers to over 600,000 in two years. What started as a tiny side-project now produces $4 million in annual revenue. Their secret: knowing how to use strategic email split-testing to drive mouth-to-mouth referrals through the roof.
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Before working for a startup it is essential to understand company culture and values to ensure you align with them. This is not a complete list, but here are some of the questions I think are worth exploring before joining any startup. 1. How is bias handled?  All humans have biases.
sarahbrownmarketing.com  •  Share
Dave Kellogg’s presentation at SaaStr 2018 on the ten non-obvious things about scaling a SaaS startup.
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TL;DR: Under Delaware law, the Board’s primary fiduciary duties are to the common stock; not the preferred. That includes Board members who are themselves investors. Keeping that in mind when interests between investors and common stockholders diverge is important for preventing lawsuits.
siliconhillslawyer.com  •  Share
From the Crypto World ⬛️⛓
If bitcoin is in a bubble, it is one of the few in the history of finance – if not the first – that expanded with negligible use of credit.
www.coindesk.com  •  Share
With the steady rise in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices, market caps, and daily news headlines, new audiences around the world are joining the blockchain ecosystem.
blog.coincircle.com  •  Share
Popular crypto token and blockchain based protocols use different models for the issuance of their tokens. Depending upon the type of protocol, and what sort of behavior it is incentivizing, each of…
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VariabL CCO Nathan Sexer undertakes an exhaustive study of current DEX tech and looks towards the (near) future of digital asset exchange. Cryptocurrencies and decentralized technologies are booming…
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