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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

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billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 In 2021, optimism on investing in social media has returned. It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year. Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M link] leehower.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does. If I’m totally honest it started as a marketing exercise. Obviously it is build on a social network “follow people&# model that is asymmetric like Twitter.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . 1) Market fund.

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

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. Hulu emerged in the social networking era and yet Boxee has been way out in front in terms of creating social viewing experiences. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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