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Bogart: Blockchain Capital Fund 4 will almost certainly be oversubscribed at $250M
“It's almost certainly going to be an oversubscribed, two hundred and fifty million dollar fund.”
Bogart: Grayscale's GBTC is the best traditional security wrapper for Bitcoin
“The reality is that this is the best product that exists today. It's not a perfect product, but it's the best that exists today, and the only way to get exposure to an exotic asset that is Bitcoin in a traditional security wrapper, right?”
Bogart: Blockchain Capital capped its pioneering ICO venture fund at $10M
“We raised the world's very first venture fund via an ICO. So we limited the size. We capped it at just a small, ten million dollar offering to make sure that, you know, we can mitigate, mitigate risk there. And make sure that it's successful. That offering, th…”
FirstBlood Liquidated 80% of Its $5M ICO Immediately, Latka Reveals
“So First Blood, for example, they issued about 460,000 Ether, which came out to about five million dollars in total value. He told me they immediately liquidated 80%, so they put four million, basically, at the, at that time, Ether was valued at 11 bucks, righ…”
McCormick: Anyone can buy their way onto a bestseller list
“Of course it is. You've got a lot of people out there who actually do it. So yeah, it's, as we've always said, you can buy anything. So yes.”
Herzog: Bancor raised $153M in three hours during record-setting ICO
“And we raised in three hours, something that was at the time, a hundred fifty three million dollars, which was at the time the large, largest fundraising ever, but that record was quickly broke by following ICOs.”
Grant Cardone publicly predicted Jeremy Haynes's agency would fail within four months
“Grant actually followed that up with going on Cardone Zone and then saying that I'd publicly fail in four months.”
Sholom: MobileGo raised $53M in May 2017 crowdsale
“It has happened this May and we've been raising fifty three million, which became number four result worldwide in crowd sales and number one result in crypto by that time. Right now, like we are in third place as far as I know.”
Sholom: MobileGo had nearly 10,000 investors, more than any ICO
“We had almost 10,000 crypto investors. None, none other ICOs have that many. Usually it's like a couple of hundreds of big whales, and that's it. In our case, it's real crowdsale.”
Herold: The financial markets are at their absolute peak in August 2017
“I think we're at the very, very peak of a market right now.”
Schreiber: No one had ever bought or sold freight online before Freightos
“And take into account that before Freighthouse, no one had ever sold freight online, and nobody had ever bought freight online.”
Korber: BreezoMeter is the only provider publishing accuracy reports
“We are the only company in the world, probably the only authority in the world that publish its accuracy. On a very clear, you can download accuracy reports in our website.”
KnowBe4 expects to generate $50 million in revenue in 2017
“We're gonna do fifty million in this year, 2017.”
Dream Funded was first SF platform approved for non-accredited investors
“We're fortunate that we're the first platform in Silicon Valley in San Francisco to receive the approval to allow they call it non-accredited investors to invest.”
Dolan: 50,000 to 90,000 people die annually from SUDEP seizures
“A lot of people actually die per year because of seizures around 50 to 90,000. So from a condition called SUDEP, sudden unexplained death and epilepsy patients.”
Ozen: Vistar Media is the only programmatic out-of-home ad player
“Because we're the only player that does programmatic out of home.”
Jumper: SIGNiX is North America's only cloud digital signature provider
“So, we're the only cloud-based digital signature company in the U.S. Or North America. Everybody else is a e-signature solution.”
Jay Jumper: Vanguard will maintain its AUM lead over Wealthfront and Betterment
“Vanguard keeps its lead. Vanguard's done a great job of having a an investment. What most, most people don't spend a lot of time and attention on the cost associated with and having a low cost solution like Vanguard has been a very good, done a very good job o…”
Corthout: HubSpot's free CRM lacks deep mailbox integration and automation
“They don't scrape email signatures. The connection with the mailbox is, is, is much, much less there. We have some more automation.”
Stein: Warren Buffett does not practice his own passive investing advice
“He's, he doesn't do what he preaches, right? He's an active investor himself.”
Ellis: Dropbox was the fastest SaaS business to hit $1B ARR
“They're the fastest company, fastest SaaS business to ever get to the one billion dollar revenue run rate”
Ewan: 500M Offline Farmers Produce 70% of World's Food
“Five hundred million farmers without internet, but supplying 70% of the world's food”
Organifi Clinical Trials Showed Weight Loss and Improved Cholesterol
“We've done clinical trials on it. So we've actually seen weight loss. We've seen improved depression backscore people improving their mood. We've seen good cholesterol levels increase, bad cholesterol decrease in our clinicals.”
Girard: Fruit Street raised $6M from 180 physician investors
“The company started in May of 2014 and, you know, we've raised about six million dollars of funding from a 180 physicians that have invested in the company as well.”
Nathan Latka predicts he will take The Top Inbox public by 30
“I'm 27 now, and I have identified what I will build and take public. It's called thetopinbox.com. No questions asked. ... I bought the whole business. I will take it public.”
Rachleff: Wealthfront Was First To Bring Virality To Investing
“It's the first time a virality has been applied to the investment world.”
Rachleff: Daily Tax-Loss Harvesting Adds 1.5% to 2% to Returns
“And if you do tax loss harvesting just at year end, according to our research, that can add about .6% to your annual after tax return. But by looking for these losses daily, it can add, as I said, one and a half to two percent.”
Robinson: Franchise businesses have sub-5% 5-year attrition versus 60% for regular SMBs
“These companies go out of business, 60% every five years. However in the franchise industry, that five year attrition rate is sub five percent. So they don't go out of business. They just resell the location.”
Mavenlink was the #1 Google Apps Marketplace app for four years
“Ended up becoming the number one installed app across every category in the world for four years through the Google Apps Marketplace, which drove tens of thousands of visits to Mavenlink at zero acquisition cost.”
Camus: Competitor Gogobot struggled despite raising $60M, souring VCs on travel
“And one of them had raised close to sixty million dollars.
Which one?
Gogobot.
Yep.
They put ads and a lot of people in a really tough place because even with that amount of money they had raised they were not doing great as a business.”
Latka: I will take Send Later public by age 30
“I will build, send later into a big business, and I will take it public by the time I turn 30.”
Putnam: Ad-tech middlemen capture 60 cents of every online advertising dollar
“So, what you have to understand is about 60 cents out of every dollar that's spent on online advertising is eaten up somewhere in the middle.”
Latka: I will take Send Later public by age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka: I will take Send Later public by age 30
“I will build send later and do a big business, and I will take it public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka: I Will Take Send Later Public by Age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Nathan Latka aims to take Send Later public by age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka: Gumroad laid off 25 employees because social selling market is too early
“Gumroad just laid off 25 employees. That market has not taken off it. It's too early.”
Latka: Success Magazine gets 2M unique visitors compared to Forbes' 30M
“This is why I'm going to throw a five million dollar acquisition out for success magazine when frankly, it's like the worst performing magazine, two million uniques when Forbes gets thirty million.”
Collin: 100% of acquired email startups get shut down
“But also a hundred percent of those companies who have been acquired shut down.”
Latka plans to take Send Later public by age 30
“I will build Send Later into a big business, and I will take it public by the time I turn 30.”
Latka predicts he will take Send Later public by age 30
“I'm taking Send Later public by the time I turn 30.”
Havenwood predicted in 2016 that the Austin real estate bubble would pop
“You know that the market here to me is about to pop. I come from real estate investing. So to me, I'm like, there's no way I would invest right now in Austin.”
Apple refuses to sell repair parts to independent shops
“Apple does not actually sell repair parts.”
Chelette: Buying a NYT or WSJ bestseller status costs $250k to $500k
“Well, it's, if it's only 60,000, the truth of the matter is you want a New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller, it's costing you between two and 50,000 and a half a million dollars.”
Tresidder: Top asset allocation models yield within 1% over 30 years
“The research also shows that you can take the top, you know, 12, 15 Asset allocations out there, plot them over 30 years, and while they'll have great variance in any one to three year period, over 30 years, they're all within one percentage point compounded o…”