VC Cafe
JULY 21, 2022
The global games and services market is forecast to reach $188 billion in 2022, a 1.2% And a record-breaking $7 billion was invested through venture capitalists and strategic investors in private gaming companies during the first half with 11 large rounds that exceeded $100 million. While mobile game revenue was down 6.6%
YoungUpstarts
MAY 25, 2018
By his sophomore year in college, Patrick Mackaronis had become a full blown young businessman, as he attended school he created live-event promotions and marketing business targeting students over a dozen of the areas universities. Patrick Mackaronis: Everyone has different terminology for certain things when it comes to investors.
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Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Convertible debt is best when you don’t yet have revenue or a good sense for your valuation, because it allows you to raise money on the basis that the valuation will be set one to three years in the future, based on execution of the early business model. The right investors can fill two gaps, the money gap and the knowledge gap.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. Evan and I met regularly over a three year period from the time he was running Flux, which he sold to Viacom ( who was his strategic investor ). I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 26, 2020
To do that you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. The real key is to have an entrepreneur that is obsessed with a small market.
OnlyOnce
JULY 9, 2013
The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Big Revenues vs. little revenues – a strategy question that startups often struggle with. or look for major large chunks of money from partnerships or strategic investors? Almost every company with long term success has used this dual revenue plan, throughout history. little revenues. Big Revenues.
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