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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

The global games and services market is forecast to reach $188 billion in 2022, a 1.2% forecasted decline year on year according to research from Ampere Analysis after two years of massive growth. billion in Q2 2022 with over half of total amount raised by early-stage companies. While mobile game revenue was down 6.6%

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. Early liquidity. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Flexible VC offers you this.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   A cumulative dividend can get to be very expensive and is not often a feature in early stage terms.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   I’ve never seen it in practice.