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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Streaming, gaming, ecommerce increased adoption rapidly, advancing 10 years in the space of a few months. According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. eCommerce grew 5 years in 3 months – graph taken from Benedict Evans deck.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Internet scale. Many eCommerce companies are in fact, middle men. In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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Goldman Sachs (an investor in our company) told us we’d IPO within 18 months for $1 billion so not to take any offers. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. We were hot.

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

These new entrants will also likely provide services that we don’t foresee today, similar to the Amazon example [which expanded from online book selling into AWS, content production and domination of ecommerce].” Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! ReachLocal – we discussed this deal at length including what amount of revenue does it take to get to an IPO (Jim’s view, sub $100 million in fine as long as you have good margins and a strong growth rate). Read more: TechCrunch.

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Why Online / Offline Mobile Integration is Going to be a Huge Business

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In the Internet era somehow as an industry we’ve subscribed to the folklore that every interaction is best computerized. The first investment I ever made as a VC, RingRevenue , was an easy one for me because it combined three key areas for me: it combined telephony / Internet, performance-based marketing & a perfect team construct.

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