The Initial Coin Offering, the Bitcoin-y Stock That’s Not Stock—But Definitely a Big Deal
The Initial Coin Offering, the Bitcoin-y Stock That’s Not Stock—But Definitely a Big Deal
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 17, 20178m 38s
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Next month, a venture capital firm called Blockchain Capital plans to do something that could change the way companies get funded—and perhaps even the way they operate. Instead of an Initial Public Offering, in which a company sells stock via a regulated exchange like Nasdaq, the San Francisco-based VC firm is making an Initial Coin Offering, selling its own digital token as a way of raising money for its latest venture fund. Anyone who buys a token will be buying into the fund.
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