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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). From Zwift’s virtual tour de France to Aston Martin’s AMR-C01 racing simulator, at-home amateur athletes will increasingly be able to compete against top-level professionals, according to the Future 100: 2021 by Wunderman.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

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The round is intended to support Kenshoo’s expansion into France, Germany and Asia. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 Kenshoo , the SEM automation startup and Sequoia’s darling, has raised a fourth round of $8-10 million from Sequoia. The exact details of the deal were not disclosed.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

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3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” Shareables. Social Media. Latin America. Middle East. United States. Previous story. Next story. -->. How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps. 16th September 2011 by Harrison Weber. Story Toolbox.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding. startupcto

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest. startupcto