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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Looking ahead at 2021, with vaccines being rolled out (slowly) in the developed world, it feels like we have a grip on what the year ahead might look like – the new normal. Audio will be a key component of the next wave of content and consumption, and it is set to continue to grow.

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. The goal of market penetration is to leverage new tactics to increase product sales , including existing customers and new customers within existing markets. Market development.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming.

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Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market

Steve Blank

Marketing and capital expenses (new factory, high R&D expense) were predicated on consumer-scale sales. We’ll sell them the CDROM drives as well.” (The Kodak CDROM drives were the size of professional audio equipment and depending on the model, costing $600-$1000 in today’s dollars.) (And

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How to Become a More Mindful Person

Duct Tape Marketing

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Ricky Kalmon an American stage hypnotist, motivational speaker, TV personality and author of self-improvement audio programs. His programs are inspirational and offer compelling, applicable tools anyone can use in personal and professional development.

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Developments in 3D printing

The Equity Kicker

Just about every company I talk to here is doubling sales each year. I’m here because it seems to me we are on the cusp of a massive increase in consumer use of these technologies, but the surprising thing for me at this conference so far has been the extent to which 3D printing has been adopted in other industries.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.