Synopsis
How can I raise funding for my startup via an ICO? What are winning strategies to invest into ICOs, blockchain startups and trade liquid cryptocurrencies? How can large corporations benefit or be disrupted from blockchain? What is Bitcoin and how does the blockchain work? What is Ethereum and how can smart contracts transform my industry? How will blockchain change my business, government and society? How can I tokenize my business? What do lawyers say about regulations and legality of ICOs in specific countries? Romans tapped into the collective wisdom of over 200 top practitioners to answer these questions and help you become a master of blockchain and initial coin offerings (ICOs). Blockchain presents a huge opportunity for every large corporation and government in the world. In 2016 startups raised $240m via ICOs, 2017 over $5.6bn. In Q4 2017 ICO funding outpaced traditional VC funding for blockchain related startups. We are just at the beginning of a massive transformation of business, government and society. “What the internet did for communications, blockchain will do for trusted transactions.” - Ginni Rometty, chair, president, and CEO of IBM “The biggest opportunity set we can think of over the next decade.” - Bob Greifeld, CEO NASDAQ “The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.” - Marc Andreessen, inventor of the web browser & Andreessen Horowitz “Blockchain is a technological tour de force.” - Bill Gates “This is bigger than the iron age, bigger than the Internet, bigger than anything. This is global and will affect everyone.” - Tim Draper, VC investor in Tesla, Skype, SpaceX
About the Author
Andrew Romans, based in Silicon Valley, is a General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital, a VC fund actively investing in deep technology startups. He is also the CEO and General Partner of 7blockchain.VC, a hybrid venture capital, hedge fund, strategy consulting and software engineering firm exclusively focused on investing in and supporting blockchain and crypto asset ecosystem companies. Romans is also the President of FilmEngine, a $100m media fund leveraging blockchain technology and currently completing an ICO. Romans is also a successful VC-backed entrepreneur, author of two top-selling books on venture capital, former tech VC and M&A investment banker and cofounder of an angel group. Romans advises large corporations and governments on venture capital, corporate venture capital, ICOs, cryptocurrency and blockchain. Romans raised over $48m for tech startups he founded by the age of 28. He has continually raised VC funding as a founder, banker or VC ever since. Romans was the founder and General Partner of The Founders Club (VC secondaries and equity exchange fund backed by 42 VCs) and also acted as the Managing Director of EMEA at VC-backed Sentito Networks ($58m in VC funding, acquired by Verso Technologies), The Global TeleExchange (raised $50m) and managed enterprise software sales in Europe at VC-backed Motive Communications (NASDAQ IPO). Romans opened new markets for fiber optic cable manufacturing and turn-key project construction company, Dura-Line, in the UK, Austria, Czech & Slovak Republics, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is also a frequent VC, CVC, ICO and blockchain guest speaker on television and keynote speaker at conferences around the world. He was born in Japan, lived in Europe for 15 years, is fluent in English, German, and French and can speak conversationally in Slovak. He began his career working in the UNIX computing industry at Pencom Systems in New York, Silicon Valley, and Austin. He holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University, completed on scholarship. Romans resides in Silicon Valley. Learn more and connect on https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/. https://7bc.vc/. http://rubicon.vc/.
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