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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Snap and Tiktok fighting for users (source: eMarketer ). Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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Will A Different Approach to Search Work?

Feld Thoughts

Google dominates search. In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far.

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Will A Different Approach to Search Work?

Feld Thoughts

Google dominates search. In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that end users spend as much of their personal time with software (in the form of social networks, tablet/smartphone apps, streaming media, etc) as they do with business software they’ve become much more discriminating buyers. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Bitesize Friday: Israeli startups get funded, launch new products

VC Cafe

Matomy - provider of alternative payment solutions for social network applications, online and freemium games, MMOs and other players in the online marketplace. Fribiz , a syndicated virtual currency platform launched this week. One of its platforms, Jivy Inside, will run as the casual games site for TF1 in France.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Filtering your search by pedigree is a good start. Eric Bahn , Beat The GMAT.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

Both Sides of the Table

When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search. This has become a reality with banner ads, search ads, contextual ads and Facebook ads. But not Hulu ads.

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