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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. As part of this, Vogue says we will see more influencers turning into retailers – either by selling their own merch or driving sales for brands. The “creator economy” will prosper in 2021.

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

Understanding your vulnerability and understanding the power of those with whom you must do business is a very important part of figuring out as a startup how to fit into the broader ecosystem and the art of statecraft is tremendously important in knowing when and how to project power in sales, recruiting, negotiations, fund raising, etc.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link].

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. The pure delays due to admin if I would have had 3-4 pig farmers would have killed me. They have an expectation that the IPO will be in 3 years and they were in at the ground floor. But for most businesses it is.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 It is worth $3.4

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