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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. Fortnite generated $5.8 Honorary mention – Animoca Brands.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . NFTs are unique digital bearer assets which may include a variety of software-enabled rights.

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

ithacaVC

For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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Is Your Company Utilising The Bacs Payment System?

YoungUpstarts

The Bacs system uses a secure, internet-based service called Bacstel-IP to make payments between banks. How Does Bacs Software Benefit Businesses? In order to connect with Bacstel-IP and utilise its payment services, businesses must use a Bacs approved payment software. In 2014, Bacs processed 5.8

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). You own the IP you create. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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To NDA or not to NDA?

Growthink Blog

This blog post was written by Mary Juetten, founder of Traklight.com, a site that provides inventors, creators, and small businesses with integrated software tools to identify and protect intellectual property. If I have a mutual NDA with Company A, I cannot go to software Company B and spill secrets learned from Company A.

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