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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? For Upfront Ventures, across > 25 years of investing in any given fund 5–8 investments will return more than 80% of all distributions and it’s generally out of 30–40 investments. So it’s about 20%.

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Generative AI that can do WHAT?

VC Cafe

It’s hard to know for sure, but this can transform content creation for social media. In doing so, OpenAI joins IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Getty Images, Shutterstock and Adobe who’ve also explicitly said they’ll indemnify generative AI customers over IP rights claims. How many of those are of people dancing?

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

Both Sides of the Table

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share. This revenue share comes after the YouTube split.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Where is Cloud Gaming headed post Google Stadia

VC Cafe

According to the 2022 Media Trends report by Deloitte , more than 80% of both men and women say they play, with half of smartphone owners saying they play on a smartphone daily. Gaming as a category generated $200 billion in revenue in 2021 and is expected to continue to grow, especially amongst the younger generation.

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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. NEW media has become the home of innovation and imagination. Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2?