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Talisman Family Alliance

Single Family Office
​Early-Stage, liquid, Venture Capital Blockchain and Tech Investments




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WE INVEST AND HAVE ACCESS TO THE BEST MANAGED, LIQUID, PORTFOLIOS OF ICO, PRE-ICO'S AND SAFT BLOCKCHAIN ASSETS, AS WELL AS, EARLY STAGE VENTURE FUNDS, SYNDICATES AND ACCELERATORS

THE HAYSTACK


A group of Family Offices investing together in:
early stage Venture Funds, Syndicates, Accelerators, Micro VC's and Blockchain Hedge Funds.



Software is Eating the Markets

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The Crypto Canon

Here's a list - building on and including Chris' last roundup - of crypto readings and resources. It's organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts and beginners' guides - followed by specific topics such as governance; development, privacy, and security; scaling; consensus; cryptoeconomics and investing; fundraising and token distribution; decentralized exchanges; stablecoins; and cryptoeconomic primitives (crytocollectibles, curation markets, games & culture).

Jameson Lopp :: Bitcoin Resources

Bitcoin is a revolutionary system that is quite complex and has a high learning curve. Make sure you have a decent grasp of the system before you store a significant amount of value in it. Note that this list is open source; please suggest additions on Github!

The Unicorn List 2016

Fortune's list of unicorn startups is ranked by valuation. (Where there are ties, rankings are based on alphabetical order.) The list is based on a combination of data from PitchBook, CB Insights, news reports, and our own investigation.

Finding Billion Dollar Secrets - Austin Startups

If you aspire to do something truly legendary, in business or any other field, you will discover that the biggest breakthroughs come from obsessively pursuing insights that defy conventional wisdom. In the startup world, this translates to having what PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel calls a "secret" or what Benchmark co-founder Andy Rachleff would describe as an idea that is "non-consensus and right."

Maintaining Success for the Long Term
Dare to make your startup Legendary - Austin Startups
The Case for the Fat Start-Up
Dave McClure: 500 Startups
AngelList: Changing the Landscape of Investing
Bubble talk
For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins | Hacker News
Lending, Investments, And Personal Finance: 102 Startups Attacking The Retail Banking Value Chain
The Dan Primack Interview - AVC
The CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboard | TechCrunch
The different "flavors" of Micro-VC - Silicon Valley Robotics
Early Stage Investing For Entrepreneurs And Individual Investors Just Got A Whole Lot More Attractive
There are now 229 unicorn startups, with $175B in funding and $1.3T valuation
Uber Is Raising More Money From Rich People
The Rise of Global Startup Cities
Every Imaginable Damn Startup Podcast Reviewed
All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club
Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin
The Micro VCs Are Coming | Mattermark
Capital Is No Longer Scarce
The Capitalist's Dilemma
The Periodic Table of Venture Capital Blogs
Resist and Thrive
Sequoia, Redpoint and First Round Lead Smart Money VCs on Follow-On Investment Rates
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Twist! Y Combinator's Sam Altman says we've been in a bust... this whole time!
Pro Rata Rights: The Force Awakens - NVCA
The Tech Bust of 2015
Are We In A Tech Bubble?
THE 6 MAJOR GROUPS THAT RULE FINTECH'S FUTURE
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Uber, Cloudera, Pinterest - Fidelity Sees Big Gains From Hot Startups
Venture Capital and the Internet's Impact - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The Increasingly Crowded Unicorn Club In One Infographic
How Much Does Venture Capital Drive the U.S. Economy?
AngelList and YC Continue To Shake The Trees
What Bubble? The Unicorn Boom Has Just Begun
The Most Patient Man in Silicon Valley
AngelList's $400M investment is no surprise; building better PE deal flow; the Internet's impact on VC
Successful Sequoia Capital Partner Stresses Risky Business of Venture Capital
Startup Investing - SeedInvest Blog
venture exchanges Archives - Crowdfund Insider
AngelList To Power The World's Largest Seed Fund With $400M From Chinese Private Equity Firm
Life in 2030
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Unit Economics
Y Combinator President Sam Altman: I'm an Optimist, But I'm Not Optimistic About Government
Class 4 Notes Essay - Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Chris Yeh, and Allen Blue's CS183C Technology... - Notes Essays -CS183C: Technology-enabled Blitzscaling - Stanford University, Fall 2015
Reflecting On The First 100 Investments
How We Share the World
What 10x More Seed Capital Means for Founders
This Is Why Public and Private Market Valuations Are Completely Different
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You don't have what it takes
Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful
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Ad-Blocking Points the Way To Decentralizing Power And That's a Good Thing
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway took 18 years to become a Unicorn | Bart Lorang
Don't Buy the Hype
The Billion Dollar Startup Club
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CrunchBase Emerging Unicorn Leaderboard
2015 Tech IPO Pipeline Report
Field Guide to Unicorn Startups Around the World
The Three Industries VR Will Reinvent Next
Are Individual Angel Investors Starting To Get Tapped Out? - Feld Thoughts
Intelligent machines: Making AI work in the real world - BBC News
13 Real Estate Tech Startups To Watch
Global Accelerator Network
Calling All Entrepreneurs: You Can Stop Saying 'You're killing it!" Now - The 33voices Blog
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For Media And Gaming, Virtual Reality Is The Wolf Standing Just Outside The Door
From Lufax To Funding Circle: 16 Financial Technology Unicorns Ranked By Valuation
The Rise of Flight VC
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Goldman in Ventureland
European startup accelerators: current state and future trends
To fly, to fall, to fly again
SURGE listed as Top Accelerator
A HERD OF UNICORNS
Having Won Over VCs, Y Combinator Turns To LPs
Nine Years of Demo Days: How YC has changed
Startup Trends from YCombinator's Demo Day
Unicorns Hunt for Talent Among Silicon Valley's Giants
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What's In A Name? On The Cap Table, It's Everything Or Nothing
Small Giants: The Past, Present, And Future Of Micro VCs
The Post-YC Slump
Why Startups Are Growing Faster Today than Ever Before
Some Quick Thoughts on Exits for Technology Startups | Bothsides of the Table
Venture capital distributions set 14-year record last year
Pro Rata
The Person I Call Most for Startup Advice
The Game Theory of the Seed Stage = Pay Upp
Seed Stage VCs Compete With One Another But Not How You Imagine
eShares Series A
Performance Optimizing for Smart Layers
What to Expect When You're Expecting Venture Capital Returns
A Dozen Things I've Learned From Chris Sacca About Venture Capital
SURGE Alumni | Family of leading energy technology entrepreneurs
A Dozen Things I've Learned from Sam Altman about Venture Capital, Startups and Business
Speed as a Habit
The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds - Feld Thoughts
Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck - Basic income
Market-Makers, Surfers and 10x'ers: A Model for Investing in Enterprise IT
Defending A16z: Noam Scheiber mistakes a VC portfolio for his 401K
Mapping out Micro-VC - Updated 8/7/2015
The Man Who Taught Mutual Funds How to Invest in Startups
The Pony's Lucky Horseshoe
Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing
Temasek Review 2015
Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic (2015) - Chief Marketing Technologist
Angellist: A Zero Capital, Infinite Carry Venture Capital Fund
Building a Growth Model for Your Company - Greylock Perspectives
The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015
Networks and the Nature of the Firm - What's The Future of Work?
The Billion Dollar Food Delivery Wars
Fear the Amazon Juggernaut
Startup accelerators - Startupxplore
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The investors who passed on Airbnb's seed funding had their reasons
The Crazy Story Behind Airbnb's Formation
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7 Rejections
Accelerators Are The New Business School
Memo to VCs: Not every site with gargantuan traffic is destined to be a billion dollar public company
Power Laws in Venture
Disrupting The Auto Industry: These Are The Startups Unbundling The Car
Raising Your Seed Round From Top VCs? We've Got Some Good News And Some Bad News
Vinod Khosla: Be Wary of "Stupid Advice"
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per aspera ad astra
Seed-DB | List of Seed Accelerator programs
Software Startups Eating the World, Then and Now | Mattermark
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The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital
The WhatsApp Moment: When the venture climate became a giant frothy mess
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The Pre-Money vs. Post-Money Confusion With Convertible Notes
Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks: VCs Spend An Average of 3 Minutes, 44 Seconds On Them
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The Complete List of Unicorn Companies
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The Future Is A Confidence Trick
Patterns of Successful Angel Investing by Simeon Simeonov
SkyFund: Supporting a New Age of Robotics and Intelligent Machines - Accel Insights
What Can It Be Worth?
Asset prices are more sensitive to very low interest rates than most suspect
Who Will Be Hurt Most When The Tech Bubble Bursts? Not VCs
All the Startup Advice You Read is Wrong
Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule - Backchannel
Naval Ravikant to VCs: "You can lie to your LPs, but don't lie to yourselves"
Venture capital vs. community capital
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Micro-VC, from the eyes of an institutional LP
Evaluating The Risks And Rewards Of Unicorn Capital
The Rise of Angel(List) and how it is rapidly changing the game of angel investing
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Growth vs. Profit vs. Arms Race
Profits vs Growth
They're All P2P Employment Agencies
Applying billionaire investor Chris Sacca's investment advice to starting companies - Dan Norris
Update: Unicorns Vs. Dragons
Unicorn Hunting Is Not The Only Way To Make Money In Venture Capital
How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch - and Walk Away with Nothing.
The Last 10 Years Have Been About Social Networks - The Next 10 Will Be About "Market-Networks"
The Shift In Assets
How Companies Can Avoid the Innovator's Dilemma - Backchannel
A Food Bubble? Not So Fast
Is Reg A+ Right For Fred Wilson's "Indie" Companies? - SeedInvest Blog
The Most Under-Appreciated Startup Team Member
PreMoney San Francisco 2015 - YouTube
A rare look inside of Coinbase, one of the fastest growing bitcoin companies in the world. - ZapChain Magazine
Going back to our roots: introducing Index Seed
Crowdfunding's Continued Maturity Is Empowering Entrepreneurs Like Never Before
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All Videos
How to get into Y Combinator
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100 women rocking Silicon Valley business: Meet the 2015 Women of Influence (gallery)
Burn Rate Doesn't Matter
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Phin Barnes: Take a Scientific Approach to Failure
Y Combinator beats the odds in tech investing - The Boston Globe
VC funds at / below $200M in size (new funds raised since 2011) - Google Sheets
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The Interface Layer: Where Design Commoditizes Tech - Design Insights from Bridge
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A Parched Soul - Om Malik
The Rise of the 'Unicorns'
Kevin Colleran: For Entrepreneurs, Accelerators Are the New Colleges
The SaaS Adventure
Lifestyle Businesses
Rising Billions - Dramatic (Positive) Change
Valuation As A Scorecard
9 big takeaways from last week's #MarTech conference - Chief Marketing Technologist
There's A $10 Billion Opportunity As Marketing Hits The Big Time
Peer-to-peer lending surges in US, challenging traditional banks - The Economic Times
Math: 1 NEA Fund = 59 Micro-VC Funds
The Venture Capital Power Law - Analyzing the Largest 100 U.S. VC-Backed Tech Exits
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Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech's Least Friended Man
U.S. Tech Funding - What's Going On?
Marc Andreessen | Andreessen Horowitz
Who Funds the Future?
Crystal Balls vs. Calculators
The Gamble of the Private IPO
First Round doesn't know if there's a tech bubble, but...
Energy
The Overcrowded Food-Delivery Industry
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Loyalists vs Mercenaries
VCs as Gas Stations
The Impact of VCs in Seed Rounds in Seven Charts
The Runaway Train of Late Stage Fundraising
There is no such thing as a 'private IPO'
Marketplaces | Bessemer Venture Partners
A Super Angel's View On Venture Capital In 2015
When Exponential Progress Becomes Reality
The Magic Thread

2015 Venture Investing Update
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A Dozen Things I've Learned from Startup L. Jackson About Venture Capital Investing and Startups
The Reg A+ Bombshell: $50M Equity Crowdfunding - SeedInvest Blog
The 2015 Midas Brink List
How to be an angel investor, Part 3
How to be an Angel Investor, Part 3
My Interviews with Airbnb, Dropbox, Posterous, Reddit, Weebly and Wufoo circa 2010
The Future of FinTech and Banking: Global Fin Tech Investment Triples In 2014
The Rise of the Tech Model May Soon Make You Obsolete
Top Venture Investors Pick Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
Andreessen: VC-entrepreneur misalignment is a myth
The Benchmark Way: Five Partners Who Make Other VC Firms Look Outgunned And Overstaffed
How Super Angel Chris Sacca Made Billions, Burned Bridges And Crafted The Best Seed Portfolio Ever
47 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2
Raising private equity? Seven questions to ask your investment banker-before you hire them.
High Valuations?
In Search Of European Unicorns
What 'Making Partner' Means at a Startup
Sequoia's Moritz joins warning chorus over Silicon Valley valuations
What I've Learned from Fred Wilson | Bothsides of the Table
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Bubble talk
Furthering Venture 2.0 with the Seedcamp AngelList Syndicate
Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn
The Age of Unicorns
Uber
Seeing Both Sides: Advice to Grads: Join A Winning Startup
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YC Stats - Winter 2015
The Techstars Code of Conduct - Techstars
These Are The Top 20 US Accelerators
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Chris Sacca on Being Different and Making Billions
ProfessorVC
An angel investor's ultimate guide to AngelList Syndicates
Help - AngelList
The Billion Dollar Startup Club
Numbers Can Ruin A Good Story
The Most Important Thing Has Never Been the Numbers
Venture Capital Is Dead. Long Live Venture Capital.
Branding, VCs and the 'Uncanny Valley'
Secretive Bitcoin Startup 21 Reveals Record Funds, Hints at Mass Consumer Play
Michael Carney leaving Pando for Upfront Ventures
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Beware the Post Money Trap
What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A
Venture Outcomes are Even More Skewed Than You Think
To be successful in business, do this (says Peter Thiel)
A Fundraising Template Every Entrepreneur Can Use
Investors Beware: Today's $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO
VCs are Hunting for Unicorns in Far Away Places...Like Ohio, Washington DC and Utah
It's All About Relationships When Selling Your Startup
Venture Capital in Europe & Israel; 4Q 2014
Elad Blog
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AngelList 2014 In Review
The Founder's Guide To Selling Your Company * Justin Kan
The world of Airbnb
Venture Capital Fundraising Jumped 62% in 2014
A visual breakdown of venture capital trends and data in 2014
How I Crashed and Burned in YCombinator - Backchannel
Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups
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Should you be an angel investor?
Common FAQs
Sunday Conversation with David Hornik, August Capital (7 of 7)
2015 Is Shaping Up To Be The Key Year For Venture Capital
Video Of The Week: The Berlin Conversation - AVC
Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s
The 13 Y Combinator Startups Worth Over $50 Billion
Exclusive: Is this the best-performing VC fund ever?
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30 Under 30: The Top Young Investors Of Venture Capital
Y Combinator v.s. Techstars: Accelerator comparison by a three-time alum | Codementor
Best Cities for Startup Founders, Investors and Developers
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The Value of Every US Tech Unicorn Combined is Still Less Than One Facebook
Exitround - How It Works
Early Stage Markets - The (Unsurprising) Correlation Between Size and Performance
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No Risk, All Reward - The Startup Career Path
a year back out, a year back in
Startup Funding Report: Historical Analysis 2005 - 2014 by Mattermark
The Rise of the Data Natives
My Investor Role Models
Ten Things I Think I Think - 2014 * David Lee
Seed Accelerator Rankings Project
Syndicate Stories: Shyp
Transforming how LPs monitor and select venture capital firms
8 Tricks to Look Like an Important VC
USV Conversations
Welcome Peter
The Periodic Table of Tech
Forbes Welcome
The Micro VC Shakeout
Billionaire Wisdom: 8 Insights From a Quartet of the World's Most Effective Entrepreneurs
Redeye VC: VC - Back to the Future?
SeedInvest CEO: Startup Star? | Mad Money | CNBC
venture capital | Search Results | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Mase - Lookin' At Me [feat. Puff Daddy] | Listen for free at bop.fm
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Haywire
All Tech Events - Techmeme
Mike maples ventureshift 7 17-13
Ask A VC

Google Links where Sarah Lacy interviews VC's

Google
harris
How to Start a Startup
Essays
Startup = Growth
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