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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

Investment bank Drake Star Partners published a report on the gaming investment and M&A activity in the first half of 2022. 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.

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[Interview] Patrick Mackaronis, Director Of Business Development At Brabble

YoungUpstarts

As the years went on, Pat Mackaronis continued to grow his network and partners in a second restaurant as well as a nightclub, he also invested in several small businesses and worked with teams to grow their projections. Patrick Mackaronis: Everyone has different terminology for certain things when it comes to investors.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

These platforms, leveraging vast amounts of user data, were able to offer targeted advertising solutions that were both more effective and appealing to advertisers, significantly eroding the ad revenue streams that publishers had relied on. It could help bring back some of that classified ad revenue that was lost. What do you think?

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). it lets you sell your inventory directly and without any middle man taking fees.

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When Not What

Austin Startup

I’ve in some ventures thought that if I could just stop the overhead and expenses for a couple of months, I’d have no problem getting the revenues up to plan. The overhead won’t stop, but incoming investments and revenue streams may take an unwanted hiatus.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

It’s an option, even though an expensive one. “ Strategic partnerinvestors: If you can find a strategic partner willing to invest in your enterprise, consider it a blessing. Better yet, the valuation of your enterprise is often higher than if the same investment were taken from a professional investor.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. AppDynamics.

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