1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Brock Pierce of Blockchain Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What about infrastructure in the developing world?

Brock Pierce: Access to capital is one of the main challenges that governments have around the world. They have to use their balance sheets to basically sign guarantees. With those guarantees, there are people who will lend to the groups that are building the infrastructure on behalf of these nations. Infra tech is a new fund that’s forming right now. It’s in the business of providing infrastructure by using new means of accessing capital.

Capital formation is changing greatly right now. That is due to Blockchain enabling peer-to-peer financing both at the micro-level as well as the >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Brock Pierce of Blockchain Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on each of those categories. Give us some examples of ventures that you have invested in that particularly stand out as great examples of leveraging Blockchain to address one or the other of your two categories.

Brock Pierce: I started Blockchain Capital back in 2013. It was the first venture fund in this sector back then. I’ll use one example. I think we’ve invested in over 70 Blockchain companies. I still am the most active venture investor in the ecosystem. There are now plenty of funds doing this. I’m always going to where the market is going and what is needed most. I consider myself a servant.

Abra is a very interesting one. The founder is a very experienced fintech entrepreneur having built multiple companies. Abra is taking advantage of >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Brock Pierce of Blockchain Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Given that is your high level hypothesis, where are the investment opportunities for venture investment that you are particularly excited about?

Brock Pierce: We’re about 10 years in where the internet was in the mid to late 90’s. Keep in mind that internet wasn’t useful until you had a sufficient amount of infrastructure. You need the bridges, the roads, the tunnels. The internet wasn’t useful to most people until you had internet browsers, email clients, and a sufficient amount of content to consume. Blockchain is now entering that phase where we have the infrastructure that can help begin to scale.

The first 10 years has really been about infrastructure. Not that infrastructure is not an important category but we’re now entering the phase where >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Brock Pierce of Blockchain Capital (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Brock Pierce was recorded in September 2018.

Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital, discusses his worldview of the Blockchain investment opportunity. Brock is one of the pioneers of investing in Blockchain companies.

Sramana Mitra: Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your various activities. I know you’re an expert in Bitcoin, crypto, and Blockchain. You invest outside of those segments as well. Give us an overview of what you are up to. >>>

410th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Slava Rubin, Indiegogo

Slava Rubin, Founder of Indiegogo.com. Slava walked us through the trends on his crowdfunding platform.

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410th Roundtable Recording on August 7, 2018: With Slava Rubin, Indiegogo

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Roundtable Recap: August 7 – Trends in Crowdfunding

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Slava Rubin, Founder of Indiegogo.com. Slava walked us through the trends on his crowdfunding platform.

EcoEscapade
As for pitches, we had Logan Spring from Saratoga Springs, NY, pitching EcoEscapade, an advisory service for living a sustainable lifestyle.

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Public Access to Startup Investments

By Guest Author Soren Petersen

In the United States, for the first time since 1933, you do not have to earn more then $200k annually or be a millionaire to invest in startups. As long as the startup raises less than fifty million dollars annually, anyone can now get into the game at the ground level. >>>