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SXSW Startups: Knowbella

Austin Startup

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Compared to the funders in Europe and Asia, U.S. What are your goals for Knowbella in 2019?

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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Guest post by Kevin Baxpehler, Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. Yes, the title is “click-bait” but there is some truth to it, bear with me.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . The round was heavily oversubscribed so the founders could choose their investment partners, but the founders decided to include NVIDIA a strategic investor.

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CEO Inspires Employees One Email at a Time

Hearpreneur

For Robert Glazer, CEO of Acceleration Partners has been inspiring his employees by delivering e-mails each Friday morning with a leadership theme, quote and related tip/article around personal growth. We are also expanding globally to Asia and Europe. . Tell us your story. Why did you start your business). in online revenue.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

Businesses large and small are still figuring out how ubiquitous computing will impact their employees, customers, and business partners. As my partner Rob (an eBay alum) put it in his post Why Mobile Works for eBay the “power of mobile has very little to do with mobility.” productivity – Evernote).

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is. But on the other hand they have more time.

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As Chinese and Israeli tech relations grow, here are the keys to success

The Next Web

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. His company raised significant funds and has strategic partners in China. “My Prepare for China’s IP laws.