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Masters of Blockchain & Initial Coin Offerings: The rise of Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICOs, cryptocurrencies, token economies and what that means for startups, corporations and investors
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
286 pages, Paperback
Published May 24, 2018
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Andrew Romans
6 books4 followersAndrew Romans, based in Silicon Valley, is a General Partner at Rubicon and also the CEO and General Partner of his new Series A VC fund 7BC Venture Capital actively investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Financial Technologies (FinTech), enterprise and consumer internet and software startups. Romans is a successful VC-backed entrepreneur, author of two top-selling books on venture capital and the industry standard on blockchain and programmatic digitization of work flows – Masters of Corporate Venture Capital, The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital and Masters of Blockchain which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Russian by major publishers.
Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policies about Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), tax incentives and specific technologies such as AI, FinTech, blockchain and digitization of the enterprise, government, healthcare and education.
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 and also acted as the Managing Director of EMEA at VC-backed Sentito Networks where he raised over $58m in VC funding (acquired by Verso Technologies). Founder and President of The Global TeleExchange (The GTX), where he raised $50m from VCs and corporates including Lucent Technologies, built and managed a team of 90. He managed enterprise software sales at VC-backed Motive Communications (NASDAQ IPO) opening new markets in France, Benelux, Scandinavia and Ireland. Opened new markets and acted as country manager 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 guest speaker on TV shows including MSNBC, CNBC and ABC, as well as various TV channels in China and Russia. He was born in Japan, lived in Europe for 15 years and is fluent in English, German, and French, can speak conversationally in Slovak and holds US and UK passports. He began his career in 1993 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, studied in Paris and Berlin at École Active Bilingue (now École Jeannine Manuel), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University, which he completed on scholarship.
Andrew resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and twin sons and leads the Rubicon office in San Francisco.
Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policies about Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), tax incentives and specific technologies such as AI, FinTech, blockchain and digitization of the enterprise, government, healthcare and education.
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 and also acted as the Managing Director of EMEA at VC-backed Sentito Networks where he raised over $58m in VC funding (acquired by Verso Technologies). Founder and President of The Global TeleExchange (The GTX), where he raised $50m from VCs and corporates including Lucent Technologies, built and managed a team of 90. He managed enterprise software sales at VC-backed Motive Communications (NASDAQ IPO) opening new markets in France, Benelux, Scandinavia and Ireland. Opened new markets and acted as country manager 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 guest speaker on TV shows including MSNBC, CNBC and ABC, as well as various TV channels in China and Russia. He was born in Japan, lived in Europe for 15 years and is fluent in English, German, and French, can speak conversationally in Slovak and holds US and UK passports. He began his career in 1993 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, studied in Paris and Berlin at École Active Bilingue (now École Jeannine Manuel), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University, which he completed on scholarship.
Andrew resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and twin sons and leads the Rubicon office in San Francisco.
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May 28, 2021
Masters of Blockchain will open you to a wide blockchain companies making wave in the bitcoin revolution.
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