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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Trillion Hours, 218 Billion Downloads – demand for new apps and games still grows globally, up 7% YoY. credit App Annie.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Announcing our investment in Inflection.io – marketing automation for product-led growth

Version One Ventures

We’re very excited to announce our investment in Inflection.io , as the company comes out of stealth with a $5M seed round. In years past, the B2B customer experience and buying process were owned by sales. Inflection is the only marketing automation solution purpose built for B2B product-led companies.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

By the year 2021, my company had a strong sales force. In the end, though, we became the company's most successful sales team across the country and I surely played a significant role in this achievement. Taking a risk by increasing marketing spend (strategically), has paid off substantially, seeing our annual sales grow by over 30%.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. But marketing should always be ahead of sales to alleviate pressure. We got 300.

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Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business?

ReadWriteStart

They explained they were building it "stealth". Interestingly, very active angel and COO at Square , Keith Rabois weighted in on Quora in response to the question: "What are some concrete reasons for *actively* stealthing a startup?" Saying you are a "stealth" company with no details certainly doesn't leave much to go on.

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Stealth Mode

genuinevc.com

« Reasonable Demands |. Stealth Mode. I’ve recently been introduced to a number of startups that are operating in “stealth mode,” and have been thinking about what to make of this fact. In a post yesterday, Keith Robinson clearly articulated one of my conclusions, “I’ve heard quite a bit about start-ups and “stealth mode.”

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