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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

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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. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). social media. credit App Annie.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

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Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NextView Ventures: Thinking back to before anyone knew HubSpot or the company was headed towards an IPO, where did you even start to market the company? NVV: How did you adjust?

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10 Startup Red Flags

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Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Adamac Attack! If its your company, bear this strongly in mind.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns. Perfect.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. The company has no public URL yet.

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The State of Consumer Tech in Israel in 2023

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Many exited or IPO’d (and subsequently lost much of their value in the recent downturn), but new success stories have also emerged. Israeli B2C champions Back in 2018, when I last published the state of Israeli B2C startups on VC Cafe, I included success stories like Fiverr, Gett, Lemonade, MyHeritage, Houzz, Bizzabo and others.

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Bitesize Friday: Compass EOS, Soho OS, Supersonicads, Legolas Media and More

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Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel.

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