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Featured startup-financing Mar 24, 2026

The Illiquidity Premium: What Founders Should Understand About How Investors Think About Locked-Up Capital

If you are a founder raising capital, you are asking investors to do something that most people find uncomfortable: hand over money they cannot get back for years. In simple terms, liquidity refers ...

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The Illiquidity Premium: What Founders Should Understand About How Investors Think About Locked-Up Capital

saas Mar 07, 2026

What a Bolivian Cash Plane Crash Teaches Founders About Fungibility, Licensing, and Digital Trust

A military cargo plane scattered $62M in banknotes across Bolivia. The central bank voided the serial numbers. The chaos that followed is a parable about digital licensing.

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