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Ecosystem for success: the key ingredients to attract an early-stage investor

The Startup Magazine

Starting out with a clear strategy, vision and mission, will not only make your product more focused; it will also demonstrate competence to an early stage investor by showing that you are willing to do your homework. . My current focus is the cloud computing company Blade. Will it change the way people do things?

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

In previous downturns, and particularly during the pandemic, gaming faired well as people seek escapism, but there are a few clouds in the horizon. We are in the experimentation stage, where brands, IP, communities, are testing the waters for relevancy, connection with the younger fans, and new income potential.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. The evolution of cloud computing has enabled public and private enterprises to track, analyze and adjust processes faster than ever before.

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Investing in the pillars of the Metaverse

VC Cafe

I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud?

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Why Startup Communities are Essential

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Startup Communities are Essential written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brad Feld, c0-author of a new book The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987.

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From Seed to Series A

Reid Hoffman

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. They’ve been thinking about this problem, of how to give security teams visibility into cloud apps, for years and years, and knew how to deploy [Series A level capital].

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

We co-founded MState (fka hyperfab, read Coindesk article ) with Rob Bailey to help bring enterprise company building expertise and Fortune 500 connections to the blockchain community. This speed of adoption of new tech will accelerate at the largest enterprises, and they will be reliant on early stage startups to do so.

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