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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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On Funding?—?Shots on Goal

Both Sides of the Table

When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.” So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio. You’re thinking about one bullet at a time.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. They simply said, with shrugged shoulders and without trying to make a big deal about it.

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The Long Economic Case for Snapchat

Both Sides of the Table

From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular. There is also a reported 8 billion videos viewed per day. I would also point out that Snapchat is becoming one of THE places to see breaking news on video in a way that isn’t reported widely enough. Engagement.

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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

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. The other night I was wondering which ones I’d likely still be subscribing to a year or two from now. Things I’m Enjoying.

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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. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. What Do VC’s Do? Blog at WordPress.com.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company.

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