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Instagram, YouTube & TikTok Are Burning Out Their Creators. Here’s How to Fix That.

Hunter Walker

The falling economic costs of production and distribution have been replaced by a new set of taxes — physical, emotional, psychological — as your community expects new content, accessibility to their heroes and open book authenticity. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Creator Wellness Will Be A Key Goal of New Products.

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Is Crowdfunding for Startups a Good Idea?

ReadWriteStart

A campaign should only be used if your product has a “viral” quality to it. It also allows entrepreneurs to create awareness around their product or service and provides an opportunity to engage a larger audience of potential customers. It can serve as a centralized hub for distributing all of your most important information.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 2) Market . If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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Distribution Advantage

Rob Go

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market.

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Why vision statements matter

BeyondVC

I went out to dinner a couple weeks ago with a few key executives at a portfolio company and as we started talking about future product direction, it seemed that we all had different ideas of where the company should go. Seeing some confusion I tried to get us focused back on the basics when I asked the team what our vision was.

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Discovery is the problem in gaming

Lightspeed Venture Partners

In 2009 I wrote a guest post at Industry Gamers about why social gaming is so attractive to investors , where I talked about the three key elements oin gaming: Development, Distribution and Discovery. But I think the framework of Development, Distribution and Discovery is still a useful lens to view the industry. This is hard to do.

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Transcript from my GrowVC interview

A Crowded Space

Why don’t you briefly introduce yourself to our audience. . So the opportunity to learn from other entrepreneurs and the companies that we’re seeing in our portfolio companies was really enough for me to take the plunge and jump on board. . So it’s a powerful tool for social proof and distribution and evangelism.