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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. The number of enabling platforms for creators has grown to all media types including music, social, gaming, education, publishing, adult video and so on. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Source: Graphtreon.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process.

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NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

View from Seed

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector: B2B On-Demand. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption. Authenticity to NextView.

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NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

View from Seed

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector: B2B On-Demand. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption. Authenticity to NextView.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Videos/presentations. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Camera, video, and most of the APIs described above for web Tools). Market Research. LaunchRock.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors.