Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital
Ashwini Anburajan: Como a criptomoeda pode ajudar "startups" a obter capital de investimento
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for my startup,
para a minha "startup",
a few million dollars.
alguns milhões de dólares.
it's going to sell for 50 to 70 million.
por 50 ou 70 milhões.
are going to be really excited.
vão ficar muito contentes.
million dollars into a company
numa empresa
of individuals to turn to for investment,
abastada para arranjar investimento,
in a technology company.
numa empresa de tecnologia.
in a golden era of entrepreneurship.
era dourada para o empreendedorismo.
to build companies than ever before.
para criar empresas.
designed to fund that innovation,
construídos para financiar essa inovação,
in the past 20 to 30 years.
to pour large sums of money
para injetar grandes quantias de dinheiro
that can sell for over a billion dollars.
mais de mil milhões de dólares.
across many companies
o capital por várias empresas
but for less, like my own.
mas com menor lucro, como a minha.
of ideas that get funded,
que são financiadas,
that funding to grow.
esse investimento para crescerem.
a uma pergunta complicada:
com o empreendedorismo?
of billion-dollar companies,
de empresas de mil milhões de dólares,
capital, it's working.
que está a resultar.
to build companies of all sizes,
empresas de todos os tamanhos,
de as financiar,
entrepreneurs and investors
nem os investidores
o acesso ao capital.
I went out to San Francisco,
with 30 other companies.
de tecnologia, com mais 30 empresas.
how to raise venture capital.
a angariar capital de risco,
about ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings.
ou Oferta Inicial de Moedas.
more money for young startups
mais dinheiro para as novas "startups"
the value of all of our companies
o valor de todas as nossas empresas
the obvious question,
de fazer a pergunta óbvia:
companies to raise money
de as novas empresas angariarem dinheiro
that the company provides.
que uma empresa fornece.
to shares in a company,
como as ações de uma empresa,
enquanto é negociada "online".
ICOs expanded the investor pool,
expandiram o leque de investidores,
de empresas de capital de risco
excited to invest.
diariamente ansiosas por investir.
likelihood to get funded.
probabilidade de encontrar financiamento.
still seemed a little crazy.
ainda parecia uma loucura.
with each other for investment,
por investimento,
to get a check.
para conseguir um cheque.
in front of an investor
15 minutos em frente de um investidor
but all the companies in the batch,
mas de todas as empresas do grupo,
rather than compete.
of their equity into a communal pool
da sua equidade num fundo comum
into tradable cryptocurrency
em criptomoeda trocável
e 4 escritórios de advogados,
we launched the very first ICO
lançámos a primeira ICO,
of nearly 30 companies
de quase 30 empresas
leiam isto e chorem."
era mais diverso.
ficaram mais animados.
the middleman fees of venture capital.
os intermediários de capital de risco.
and reinvest it,
mais rapidamente.
a virtuous cycle of capital
um ciclo virtuoso de capital
entrepreneurs to succeed.
serem bem-sucedidos.
is access to opportunity.
é o acesso à oportunidade.
access to capital will do.
do acesso ao capital fará.
that my own search for funding
de financiamento
30 companies get investment.
a conseguir investimento.
to invent new ways to access capital
tentassem inventar maneiras de ter capital
the traditional route.
what gets built, who builds it
quem o constrói
a longo prazo na economia.
in the next billion-dollar startup.
na próxima "startup" multimilionária.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ashwini Anburajan - Entrepreneur, writerAshwini Anburajan using blockchain to democratize access to capital.
Why you should listen
Ashwini Anburajan is a serial entrepreneur and writer living in New York. She's successfully bootstrapped ad tech startups -- Social Data Collective and OpenUp -- that have worked with major media companies and Fortune 500 brands. She's done original research into consumer behavior, featured multiple times on CNBC. Prior to that she worked for BuzzFeed, NBC News and consulted for large media companies. Anburajan helped lead the tokenization effort for 22X Fund and received an "Innovation in Venture Fundraising Award" from Microsoft for her work. She currently focuses on how blockchain can democratize access to capital and expand opportunity globally.
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