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A Very Short peak into the Metaverse

VC Cafe

As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . The term Metaverse was first coined by author Neil Stephenson in the novel ‘Snow Crush’ published in 1992. What is the metaverse?

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

As investors in the company since the early days, we here at Lightspeed have been honored to be a partner of Nest. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball. 2014 big data Cleantech Internet of Things Nest' Congratulations to Tony Fadell, Matt Rogers and the world class team at Nest!

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

Our premise when we started doing branded accelerators with large companies was that we’d get deep mentor involvement from execs at the company we are partnering with. Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993. The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

1- I turned to the internet. Disparaged I turned to the internet, and found two gems: leandomainsearch dot com (my favorite) and domainr dot com. 9- My partner screamed it out. My partner and I were in college on Long Island and that’s also where we grew up. Photo Credit: Reece Griffin. Photo Credit: Andrew Shapiro.

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Twitter Link Roundup #226 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The embedded presentation above is filled with valuable data on the state of the Internet and trends in technology around the world. How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook – crowdspring.co/Ud9VE5. Redesigning Mary Meeker’s Ugly Internet Slideshow | Businessweek – crowdspring.co/RY0FBD.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

But I think what I thought was, as I said, there were 10,000 translation companies out there in 1992 when we started, but they were really companies that were started and run by translators who were enormously talented, but they were busy doing the translation work, so they couldn't scale their companies. That is the hardest. It was crazy.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet.