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The impact of Covid-19 on Livestreaming adoption

VC Cafe

In this post, I cover the rise of why this is the case, and offer lots of examples of verticals and applications as well as opportunities for startups and streamers. Social – when Epic Games acquired HouseParty, the ‘face to face’ social network, it had yet to find its moment.

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

David Teten

A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

Some engineers were insulted that we were going to slow down their board and sales was convinced that within days of the board hitting the street we would have a black market in chips to speed up the $699 boards and turn them into $3,999 ones. The reaction inside our company could not be described as polite. No one believed it would work.