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Startups & Tech - Issue #204: Investment Pace, Staked ETH, CAC and LTV

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Gm. Despite the bear market, Solana is seeing over 2.4M daily active users across the network. In the long run, usage is more valuable than total-value-locked (TVL) or any other financial metric. 
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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

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🗞️ Interesting Reads
  • VC investors have slowed their investment pace, are not anticipating a quick bounce back, with growth rounds being the hardest hit portion of the market. 
  • The “peg” between staked Ethereum (stETH) and Ethereum (ETH) has deviated from 1:1 leading people to better understand how the primitive works. 
  • An exploration on the relationship between CAC (cost of acquisition) and LTV (lifetime value) and the payback period between them.
  • A primer on decentralized storage. TLDR the biggest driving use-case (to-date) has been storing NFT files & metadata. 
  • An analysis of token distribution breakdowns across a wide range of projects, helpful for Web3 projects thinking about distribution strategies. 
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Startups & Tech - Issue #203: Time to Money, Neobanks Profitability, Cloud Comparables

Monday, June 6, 2022

Gm. Hope everyone will have an awesome week! ------------------------- Written by Chris McCann, Gene Startups & Tech Issue #203 — View online — Suggest a link Startups & Tech A curated list of

Startups & Tech - Issue #202: Cash App Ecosystem, ML Infra, Web3 Wallets, Estimating LTV

Monday, May 30, 2022

Gm. Hope everyone will have an awesome week! ------------------------- Written by Chris McCann, Gene Startups & Tech Issue #202 — View online — Suggest a link Startups & Tech A curated list of

Startups & Tech - Issue #201: Stake in Robinhood, M&A Process, Under-Collateralized Lending

Monday, May 23, 2022

Gm. Hedge, our portfolio company at Race Capital, launched with the tagline of “Never sell your SOL” Startups & Tech Issue #201 — View online — Suggest a link Startups & Tech A curated list of

Startups & Tech - Issue #200: Depegging, Forms of Stablecoins, Valuation Data

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Gm. Tough week in the markets for pretty much every asset class out there. Hope everyone is doing ok Startups & Tech Issue #200 — View online — Suggest a link Startups & Tech A curated list of

Startups & Tech - Issue #199: Cap Table of Twitter, Power Law Distributions, Web3 Security

Monday, May 9, 2022

Gm. Excited to share that we at Race Capital invested in the seed round of Bundlr, the key enabler o Startups & Tech Issue #199 — View online — Suggest a link Startups & Tech A curated list of

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