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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios.

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“Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) But Will Define Media This Decade

Hunter Walker

As I looked around for more examples of this I found that the introduction of connectivity to gaming (hello internet!) The “absolutely yes” category was dominated by creators who had branched beyond their initial piece of content and created some persistent space for the community to aggregate. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. What Do VC’s Do?

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Here is the video link or click on the image above. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Thank you. (if

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More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo

David Teten

It was created before the Internet age to protect investors by promoting full disclosure of information. As an alternative, entrepreneurs have been using crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo , one of our portfolio companies, to raise money for their companies through online donations. Start now! *

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

David Teten

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. .

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

And it really just, kind of, comes from this problem, that in the aggregate, if you get 10,000 coin flips, we can say something spectacular about the quality of our decisions and what we should learn or not learn from them. It was being purchased by Hollywood Entertainment, which ran the Hollywood Video stores. Jeff: Yeah.