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The initial coin offering

In the previous section, we talked about a traditional fundraising roadmap for blockchain startups. However, startup founders do have concerns regarding private investors such as VC capitalists. It is possible that VC capitalists establish their own management team and push out the founders when the company is on a solid footing.

Internet and blockchain provide technical platforms for entrepreneurs who can reach out directly to public investors for raising funds. Consequently, ICOs became the most popular fundraising methods for founders to finance their blockchain projects. ICOs give blockchain startup founders a way to bypass IPOs and raise a large sum of money from public investors at the startup formation stage. In 2017 and 2018, tens of billions of USD were raised via ICOs. Since ICOs are closely related to tokens and crowdfunding, we will first...

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Weimin Sun

Weimin Sun has 20 years' of experience working in the financial industry. He has worked for top-tier investment and commercial banks such as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley, where he also managed large teams for developing IT applications. Weimin has also held corporate titles such as executive director and senior VP in some of these firms. Weimin has in-depth knowledge of the blockchain technology, data science, data architecture, data modeling, and big data platforms. He holds Ph.D, M.B.A and M.Sc degrees. He has co-authored Blockchain Quick Start Guide and published several statistical journal papers.
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Xun (Brian) Wu

Xun (Brian) Wu is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across various technologies, including Blockchain, big data, cloud, AI, systems, and infrastructure, Brian has worked on more than 50 projects in his career. He has authored nine books, which have been published by O'Reilly, Packt, and Apress, focusing on popular fields within the Blockchain industry. The titles of his books include: Learn Ethereum (First Edition), Learn Ethereum (Second Edition), Blockchain for Teens, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Hyperledger Fabric V2, Hyperledger Cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide, Blockchain by Example, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week.
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Angela Kwok

Angela Kwok, is a lawyer, specializing in high-tech and blockchain start-ups and venture capital financing. She also focuses on general corporate and commercial matters, fund formation, cross-border and domestic investments, mergers and acquisitions, and related tax matters in the TMT industry. She has represented clients in blockchain-related cases.
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