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Monetisation is Key to drive The Second Renaissance in the Creator Economy

VC Cafe

Creators that are able to grow a community while keeping engagement levels high have a greater opportunity to make a living from their craft more than ever before in history. CREATORS SHOULD MAKE MONEY FOR THEIR WORK also DONT CHARGE ME FOR YOUR PODCAST ? They already distribute over $100M a month amongst their 200,000+ creators.

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

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., 1) Manage the firm .

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

Valuation: $1M – $3M. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. By contrast, Right Side Capital has a very tight thesis : . Check Size: $50K to $200K.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. 6) Negotiate deal.

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10 challenges investors face in Metaverse and Web3

VC Cafe

There more than 35,000 engineers working on building it, and a strong level of passion/engagement in the communities being built around this ‘New Internet’ But with that, there are also challenges, which are less discussed. Metaverse – it has both B2B and B2C applications. Decentralised tech, centralised ownership?

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Two investment deals are on the table. Which do you sign?

The Startup Toolkit

Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The financials immediately jump out when we talk about term sheets: what’s the valuation? Requires team relocation. First-time VCs, building on their own entrepreneurial success. Conveniently local. What’s the dilution?

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Two investment deals are on the table. Which do you sign?

The Startup Toolkit

Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The financials immediately jump out when we talk about term sheets: what’s the valuation? Requires team relocation. First-time VCs, building on their own entrepreneurial success. Conveniently local. What’s the dilution?