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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of entertainment tech, gaming and commerce. The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. 2020… where to start?

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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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. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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From CRM to CXM: Walking the Customer Journey

Venture Chronicles

We are certainly not abandoning CRM as a pillar of our positioning, we are recognizing that there is a more expansive vision to aim for, one which borrows on the lessons and capabilities of CRM while more fully embracing a next generation of social technologies that don’t exist exclusively in the context of master data and transaction records.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides.

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