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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

2020… where to start? If you look at the prediction lists of 2020, none (or at least very few), would have foreseen the chain reaction of Covid-19 to both enterprise and consumer trends. According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. Twitch stats in 2020.

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Impressions from Pocket Gamer Connects in London

VC Cafe

With the increasing competition in the mobile gaming market, developers are recognising the need to keep players engaged and invested in their games for longer periods of time in order to drive monetisation and retention.

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Entrepreneur and Consultant Luke Lazarus Replicates His Success for the Benefit of Clients

The Startup Magazine

Luke Lazarus Comments on the Top Marketing Trends of 2020. Some noteworthy developments from 2020 include: Instagram is now on par with Facebook for advertisements sold: Over the past few years, the social media site Instagram has caught up with Facebook with the number of ads placed and user actions taken from those ads.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? Unity’s recent $4.4

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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

As per a report by Google, Temasek Holdings, and Bain & Company, as many as 40 million people in six countries across the region — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — came online for the first time in 2020. Venture capital (VC) investment is the primary funding source for regional startups.

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Midas List 2020: Forerunner’s Eurie Kim (and Why Company Names Matter to Her)

Hunter Walker

Forerunner represented the best of both worlds to me – an opportunity to invest in new and innovative consumer businesses combined with an opportunity to build a new and innovative venture capital firm. HW: Is venture still an “apprenticeship” business? . EK: Absolutely.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success.