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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

“It follows that the goal of forecasting is not to see what’s coming. It is to advance the interests of the forecaster and the forecaster’s tribe.” As a fan of prediction lists, I collected a number of interesting reports and expert forecasts for 2021 in the spaces we cover at Remagine Ventures.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Keyword research and budget forecasting. Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well. I would also note that they claim 2.1

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. The State of Flexible VC.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Keyword research and budget forecasting. Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Keyword research and budget forecasting. Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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

David Teten

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs. Numerous VC funds rely on more general CRM and sales funnel solutions like Pipedrive and Streak. Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments. 5) Due diligence.