VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this post I cover a non-exhaustive list of content categories that are being re-invented with AI. The majority of the startups in the creative automation space focus on this category with a focus on marketing tech (ads), eCommerce (listings, reviews, etc) but also increasingly art. Watch this impressive demo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. Don’t expect investors to line up for your new online gaming site, adult entertainment or quick sources of cash. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Marginal legality or poor public image.

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View from Seed

MARCH 20, 2020

Here are some of my predictions on how this pandemic might impact businesses and accelerate category growth in the short- and long-run: Online learning programs will accelerate. In addition to movies and TV, gaming is already on the rise with billions of dollars of venture investment in the last several years.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Tesla needs to remain a constant innovator to play that game. If you look at any mature category, you’ll find it full of products that are basically the same. I’m a category connoisseur in this case. Commoditization is increasing in every category. Some people are new to your category of products. The result?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These videos are usually trailers, whether from movies or games. These can be from any category, whether it’s software for taking down notes or something related to health and fitness. Test Video Games. Just like downloading a new app, you may also be asked to test video games. Download New Apps. Complete Specific Tasks.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

To me, however, the entertainment, media, and gaming industry seems the most obvious industry to be disrupted by this technology, far beyond any other. Whether that is for TV, a game, a newspaper or a podcast. What do the current fundamental generative AI models allow you to do? Create text/code, images, audio and video.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Immersive tech, 3D content, virtual worlds/games that offer social interaction with other players, web3 (in some cases). Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games: Everything which is a website now will become a “metaverse destination” before 2030. Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

In general, trends can be divided into two big categories. Second, short-term trends, categories that are growing and likely need to be implemented in the next 1-2 years. Today, AR and VR are increasingly used in gaming, hi-tech shop displays, healthcare, entertainment, and more. Mobile app development trends — what to expect.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

VC’s across the board have generally upped their game and are much more involved in the startup ecosystem and with their portfolios. In the midst of the rise and fall of craftbrewers, what I think we’ve seen is that a small number of brands have risen to enviable positions within this challenging category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. Don’t expect investors to line up for your new online gaming site, adult entertainment or quick sources of cash. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Marginal legality or poor public image.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming. AI-Native MMPGs and Social – What would a game world populated by AI’s be like? Shameless plug: At Remagine Ventures , we back pre-seed startups at the intersection of tech, entertainment, gaming and commerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

I’ve written about the topic that I care about the most – “ proprietary dealfow ” and if you don’t have that you don’t have a real venture game. Play the long game. And of course you can’t win a game by playing a bit of both positions. Summary: You don’t need to see every deal.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

A smart TV enables you to do social media streaming, gives you access to tons of online workouts, as well as allows you to play games and even create videos. Stay Unique With Category Design. Category design refers to an innovative business strategy that can help your company dominate a new product category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We all hear about the big winners, such as the game Clash of Clans , which has now surpassed $1 billion in yearly revenue, and the smartphone version of Skype , which is making huge money through credits as an extension of the website version. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022.

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

Atari (home video game consoles). Microsoft (OS – both text & GUI based, office productivity, game consoles). Wait For Complementary Technologies to Mature - Apple didn’t pioneer the smartphone but obviously the iPhone rightly deserves credit for defining the category and making it a global mass market.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Is my churn rate below the category average? In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. eCommerce is different than free consumer apps, games are on a league of their own, etc. What should our MRR growth be?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This dynamic makes it insanely difficult for startups to get initial traction in these categories. They often require huge amounts of capital to even get in the game, or a very clever marketing hook or defensible channel to get initial traction.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2011

From the world’s first run-for-rewards mobile application, to the first-of-its-kind end-to-end closed-loop inpatient medication management system in Asia Pacific, here are some highlights of the finalists: In the Start-up category. In the Emerging Technology category. In the Interactive Ideas category. In the Student categories.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

Big group celebrations, concerts, and sporting events are likely to be delayed or pushed off until next year, or maybe replaced by small group gatherings and spectator-less games. We may not have an Olympics to enjoy this year, or be able to go to baseball games as a spectator, but we will start to see some sports on television again.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I think the direction of the company is spot on and follows very similar trends that we’ve tracked in online games more broadly and also follows the trend of real-money online gaming apps that are “games of skill” not “games of chance.” But it still takes time.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Although more and more companies are joining the game, the stability of market positions is astonishing. You can’t beat category kings, and the only exception for this is through tech disruption. They don’t usually fit within the consideration set where only category kings go. Your job as a marketer is to get inside it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2020

User friendliness is the game and talk of the town, when it comes to business tools, that customer self-steer. Placement of Categories and sub categories right at start of the journey. Be careful with third party application involvement, don’t let outside privileges slow you down. Optimize your online store for Mobile.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

There are lots of different no-code platforms out there, but most fall into one of three main categories. For businesses that deal with customer data, sales data, or similar information, these tools are game-changers. That kind of diversity of perspectives is what makes any solution great. Key types of no-code platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

Historically high failure rate category. New drugs often fall in this category, due to long clinical trials and FDA approvals required. Don’t expect investor enthusiasm for your gambling site, porn site, gaming, or debt collection business. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Let’s now explore the major developments and ultimate use cases for the Lightning Network in two categories: A) payments/finance and B) Web3. . 2) Gaming . Building on the potential for streamable micropayments, I think that Lightning’s first killer app may well be online game payments/purchases. 1) Generalizable Payments .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2021

At the right time, they all intend to make a graceful exit, and leave while still perceived to be on top of their game. Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are business examples in this category. Which category will you fall into? Aging despots. Helping others?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2018

Many of these companies end up either creating or helping to create a new category. As the startups (or the category) become visible, they inevitably attract the attention of industry analysts, who write reports on the categories and the startups as part of the industry analysts’ business. The analyst went wide instead of deep.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

My current company, RespondWell, is the result of a pivot from our original company, RespondDesign, which developed the world’s first fitness game for the Xbox. Ted Spooner’s 22 years of broad experience in financial services, technology, digital entertainment and healthcare IT led him to co-found RespondWell in 2003.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2011

This year, some of the thirteen teams out of a total of 177 entrants that emerged winners in their respective categories to clinch the top awards were a number of Singapore technology startups, perhaps a sign that the local technology startup scene is in its ascendancy. “We Award Categories. Interactive Game on Global Warming.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2014

Orbotix is creating a new game platform that combines common physical objects, smart phones, and a software marketplace. Connected play is a new category that I’m completely obsessed about. When the iPhone and iTouch came out, there was an incredible shift to mobile devices for games. Come join us and play !

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

2/ NFTs (non-fungible-tokens) will emerge as a killer use case inside an incredibly fun game at a scale. This could include a game that exists already, but could be a game that is brand new. 3/ A new consulting/freelancing category will emerge. 3/ A new consulting/freelancing category will emerge.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2020

by Scott Greenberg, author of “ The Wealthy Franchisee: Game-Changing Steps to Becoming a Thriving Franchise Superstar “ During the 10 years I ran my Edible Arrangements franchises, I spent a lot of time reflecting on my stores’ performance. I monitored my numbers. I analyzed the market. I constantly checked in with my employees.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

App developers, and game developers know this problem well and there’s something we can learn from them. ChatGPT deserves a mention in this category as they pushed the envelope by letting anyone create Custom GPTs, which became the company’s app store. By the way, this not just about marketing or PR.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

So much so, there’s a “remote work tools” category at this year’s Golden Kitty Awards , annually celebrating ProductHunt’s products, makers, and community members. Another point he makes is that Zoom should be asking the right questions in order to stay in the game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. Don’t expect investors to line up for your new online gaming site, adult entertainment or quick sources of cash. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Marginal legality or public image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Historically high failure rate category. New drugs often fall in this category, due to long clinical trials and FDA approvals required. Don’t expect investor enthusiasm for your gambling site, porn site, gaming, or debt collection business. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in Entertainment and Content , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Sunday, March 10, Horizon makes blockchain-powered video games for dreamers, futurists, and digital citizens. What is your competitive advantage?

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