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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S.

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The End of Hyperscale Envy

Lightspeed Venture Partners

In fact, the Avi vision made so much sense that Lightspeed venture partner Guru Chahal, who had worked closely with the founders to define the product, immediately joined the company as VP Product. That is, datacenter infrastructures were designed for a three-tier architecture world, yet we now live in a mobile-to-cloud world.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” Facebook partners with Opower & NRDC to create a social energy application. Murdochs Sun newspaper reportedly shuns paywall in favor of paid mobile apps and ads. All Stories. Top Stories.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

As investors in the company since the early days, we here at Lightspeed have been honored to be a partner of Nest. At Lightspeed we are convinced that we are at the dawn of new era where every product stands to be improved through innovation around Internet connectedness, cloud-based services and data.

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