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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

As pre-seed investors in the world of gaming (both studios and infrastructure) at Remagine Ventures, we stay up to date on the trends and new developments in the world of gaming. Data from Sensor Tower Q2 2022 report reveals that iOS users in the United States spent more in non-game apps than games for the first time ever last quarter.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

acquire a company for the product and its installed base of users. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. If the startup is acquired for its IP, talent or revenue, it should be rapidly integrated into the acquirer.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

Version One Ventures

Projects like Sphinx already have live apps where users can send private messages and stream sats for podcasts all over Lightning. This model of building layered protocols like Lightning on top of Bitcoin has always intuitively made sense to me and appears most analogous to what played out in the first Internet wave (ala TCP/IP). .

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. billion people.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Basil Ayish , MBA, Business Development. Clare Pak , Business Development. The Knox team was a great mix of hands-on device engineers and business development. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical. And saved millions.

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Top Ten Reasons STRAP is Changing the Game with Advanced Tech for the Visually Impaired

Austin Startup

Sensor technology similar to that used in driverless vehicles The STRAP device uses both LIDAR and ultrasonic (SONAR) sensors to ‘see’ for its vision-impaired user in much the same way as these sensors enable vehicles to be operated autonomously.

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