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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. They are typically among the top quartile performers.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

We’ll be bringing other entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and corporate partners with us. Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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Why We Invested in Flyp: Unlocking Recommerce Supply

View from Seed

The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform. Flyp’s workflow automation capabilities and AI-driven inventory matching system empower these entrepreneurs to develop and scale their at-home reseller businesses.

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How to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising

Brandanew

They function very similar to an Ad Network but with the main purpose of helping publishers and content owners get their posts in front of audiences on well-known websites. Outbrain can reach a global audience of over 557M unique people per month, making over 200B recommendations to consumers monthly. Content.ad. StackAdapt.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.