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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). In a world without cookies, we’ll see smart alternatives to targeting that avoid cookies altogether: contextual targeting, time-based targeting, and using syndicated and custom audiences, according to the 2021 media trends and predictions by Kantar.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

And given my marketing background (Google, Dailybreak Media, HubSpot), I often get this question directly: When should startups announce seed funding? . So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding? You get the idea. Why is that important to remember?

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

Agile VC

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” ” is indeed yes.

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

Agile VC

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” ” is indeed yes.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. In the startup world, this itself perhaps isn’t uncommon, but what made Kohort’s story unique is the fact that those thousands of users had no idea what Kohort was when they signed up. Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen.