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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. I also believe that there was a fundamental change in consumer behaviour. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community. And what happens as a result?

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? 15 hours ago davidbeisel: How VC firms die: greed, complacency, and strategy drift.

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

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Evangelos : You need to be able to change people, you need to be able to put the right people in the right role.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. Next Pascal Nicolas presented SalesVu , a cloud based sales management tool for restaurants interested in tracking the value of their promotions. What we have taken on is hard enough.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Greylock Partners. But beyond that, not much. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.