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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Looking ahead at 2021, with vaccines being rolled out (slowly) in the developed world, it feels like we have a grip on what the year ahead might look like – the new normal. According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. The “creator economy” will prosper in 2021.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. June 5, 2012. In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 Microsoft has two huge ones in the Windows OS and Xbox.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility. It included things like advertising, marketing analytics, cyber security. We started to do that in the advertising space first. Filed under: Customer Development.

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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. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy.

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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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[INTERVIEW] Eldon Mascoll, Toronto Entrepreneur, Founder Of Freedom Park Media Group

YoungUpstarts

Since the 90s, Toronto-based entrepreneur Eldon Mascoll has been making his mark in the media industry, working in areas that include television production, film, marketing and advertising. Games On Wheels is the largest mobile video game truck business in the country. Taking what he learned at HBO, Mascoll formed EME Inc.,

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