VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

According to Gamesbeat , the streaming wars will spill over to the cloud gaming wars, with media companies, streaming companies and telcos looking to include gaming packages in their offerings. Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). About Me.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. There are a number of VC firms that had extraordinary success in enterprise software, telecom equipment, and semiconductors in the 1990s.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

We know from reviewing our client base that one set of social login providers that works for one site doesn’t necessarily work for another. Companies should take social media seriously …it’s definitely here to stay! Latest Social Media News. Latest Media News. Facebook IPO Hitting in Late May [REPORT].

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Not that I blame you! Here’s why.

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