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[Interview] Patrick Mackaronis, Director Of Business Development At Brabble

YoungUpstarts

By his sophomore year in college, Patrick Mackaronis had become a full blown young businessman, as he attended school he created live-event promotions and marketing business targeting students over a dozen of the areas universities. Patrick Mackaronis: Everyone has different terminology for certain things when it comes to investors.

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

As pre-seed investors in the world of gaming (both studios and infrastructure) at Remagine Ventures, we stay up to date on the trends and new developments in the world of gaming. The global games and services market is forecast to reach $188 billion in 2022, a 1.2% The merger of Unity and Ironsource (a $4.4

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How to Have a Smarter VC Strategy

Austin Startup

At this point, we had already developed the first phase of the platform by bootstrapping. Consider convertible debt Before diving into a seed round, you may want to consider convertible debt over equity financing. The right investors can fill two gaps, the money gap and the knowledge gap. even Steve Jobs didn’t know everything.

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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now

OnlyOnce

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ What About Sales & Marketing?, questions”.

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Six Tips For Startups Outside Of Traditional VC Hubs

YoungUpstarts

With technology making communication, collaboration and connection easier, more VC firms are now actively investing in companies located in non-traditional markets. Connect with local investors. Strategic investors not only provide capital, but also provide early customer opportunities and other resources to develop your product.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. We typically advise our portfolio companies to avoid taking on strategic investors at an early stage for this very reason. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. We typically advise our portfolio companies to avoid taking on strategic investors at an early stage for this very reason. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.