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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

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 commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4%

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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] leehower.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does. I rarely only read the post.

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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. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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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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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Corporate VC networks extend beyond their own parent companies. Mari Holds a B.A. So how do you get a warm intro?

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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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