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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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

David Teten

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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Getting Back the Band Together for NextView’s Investment in BookBub

Genuine VC

In the intervening years while I pursued a career investing in startups rather than creating them, Josh continued as an entrepreneur starting a handful of companies including early social networking site Sconex, successfully sold to Alloy Media.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. What They Do: Deeply discounted coupons (often 50% off redeemed value) for local merchants. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.