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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

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. If the reviewed company is marked as interesting, they’ll use Google Meet , Google Calendar and Calendly trio to schedule a video call with the founding team.

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

Ice Energy delivers distributed energy storage and smart grid solutions to leverage higher efficiencies associated with generating and transmitting less expensive off-peak power. Eco-Products is the nation’s leading brand of single use food service products made from renewable and recycled resources. ·

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. Eco-Products is the nation’s leading brand of single use food service products made from renewable and recycled resources. ·

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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.