Investing in Startups: Models and Opportunities

Thunder Funder is a new funding portal by Mike Jarmuz (CEO) and Rockstar Dev (CTO). This will be a new way to allow retail investors to participate in bitcoin company equity rounds. Muzz and I discuss the ins and outs of what this means, as well as what it could mean for bitcoin and open source companies.   

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro

(00:55) - Overview of Lightning Ventures & Thunder Funder

(12:15) - Sponsor

(13:50) - Pros and cons of investing in Bitcoin startups

(19:28) - Liquidity, secondary transactions, Reg CF & overview of investing process

(26:39) - Sponsor

(27:30) - The etiquettes of information rights

(32:02) - Carried interest 

(35:25) - Getting involved in the bitcoin startup ecosystem

(39:17) - Open source funding opportunities

(42:14) - Way forward for Thunder Funder

Links: 

• https://x.com/MikeJarmuz 

• https://x.com/r0ckstardev 

• https://x.com/ltngventures 

• https://x.com/ThunderFunderCF 

• https://thunderfunder.com/ 

Sponsors:

• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

• Mempool.space

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