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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. Audio advertising matures – In Carat Trends 2021 the media agency expects there to be a significant increase in audio advertising as both brands and platforms realise its value and power. social media.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). We have a long way to go baby! link] Terence Donnelly.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Have an account?

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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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Why Twitter is A Media Company ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising. And Twitter CRO Adam Bain is focused primarily on growing this advertising base. Twitter’s data is valuable primarily for advertising. Twitter isn’t really a social network. Hootsuite, CoTweet, etc). Author howerl.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. Mari Holds a B.A. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. That’s the capex (e.g.

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