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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community. Prioritize mergers and acquisitions early. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

Investment bank Drake Star Partners published a report on the gaming investment and M&A activity in the first half of 2022. The merger of Unity and Ironsource (a $4.4 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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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

The code underlying “Minecraft”’s gameplay, as well as the vast array of downloadable user created “mods” that allow players to modify the game and gameplay in myriad ways, will be transformed into the “social developer” community Microsoft has been seeking to bridge gaps between the Windows software community and gaming platforms.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

9- A merger of two companies. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’.

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Governance in Healthcare: Best Practices after COVID-19

Board Effect

Just as healthcare organizations struggled with how to adapt to mergers and meet the evolving needs of their communities, COVID-19 struck with a vengeance forcing changes in governance in healthcare. The current times are especially challenging for community-based boards that lack experience in operating during a global crisis.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

“This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.” For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO.

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7 Entrepreneur Stages Help You Assess Your Progress

Startup Professionals Musings

The place – finding a community where you can thrive. You can find other good ones these days in almost every community and university campus. The world moves fast today, so don’t let this stage slow you down. Everyone needs a place with the right people, connections, and environment to nourish your dreams.