Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2024

The top three categories of techniques make up 80 percent of the most effective strategies entrepreneurs use to build mental resilience. Enhance Your Mental Resilience As entrepreneurs, each of us must find the activities we love in the categories of Movement, Mindset, and Connection. Sounds luxurious, doesn’t it?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Use Tech as a Mindfulness Game-Changer Being more mindful and present in your daily life is a stress-buster, and tech can help. Master Your Inner Game Dhiren Harchandani (EO Dubai) mastered his inner game and coaches others on how to master theirs and enjoy both business success and personal fulfillment.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In other words, the people with the least amount of money in this game wind up doubling down on what is probably an unfundable, problematic idea to begin with—because an investor said the only thing missing was traction. Nearly all of these investors have funded someone they know on a Powerpoint or on a pre-revenue prototype.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

My partner Steven Dietz is an auto enthusiast and more than just an admirer of amazing cars he has worked around the auto industry for 20 years and backed a couple of billion-dollar startups in the category. One with a company that produces games and educational products for children that we will announce in the next few months.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category. An obvious example of integrated media would be the new Rio Angry Birds version.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront. How do we plan to do it? The Upfront VII and Growth teams are made up of 10 partners: 6 leading investment activities & 4 supporting portfolio companies including Talent, Marketing, Finance & Operations.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Watching the boom/bust cycle of DTC brands that were running on just the sugar high of venture dollars has given me even more appreciation for those who, yes, require investment capital along the way, but are playing the long game. Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time! as consumers reduce their sugary soda intake.

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UBI Global

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The startup game-changing newsletter Our Corporate Matching article outlined the three categories of collaboration that UBI Global is opening for startups to meet corporate innovation seekers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The Page Rank system has been gamed and is leading to many spammy results. It had a strong user base and 50 million monthly uniques. 49:35-51:30).

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

for the following venture strategies: American Dynamism ($600M), Apps ($1B), Games ($600M), Infrastructure ($1.25B), and Growth ($3.75B). Each area requires deep expertise, so it’s not wise to try to cross-train someone in, for example, Games and Infrastructure. I am pleased to announce that we have just raised $7.2B

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

As we finish the week of International Women’s Day, what better story to share than one of a woman who created a whole new beverage category while pregnant with her fourth child, with three kids under the age of 6 and a US$50,000 budget!? In the category of “things she didn’t see coming,” Goldin recounts her experience with Starbucks.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo, on the other hand, has tried to mimic the offline shopping experience online by building community via their team purchase model, driving engagement via fun and interactive games and rewards, and offering personalized experiences and value via recommendations. These numbers reveal a missing element in e-commerce.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Anime as a media category has exploded in reach and cultural influence around the world. In 2022, anime games accounted for 20% of total mobile game spend at $17B , not inclusive of PC/console spend. Anime games are also pioneering new standards of gameplay. We’re big fans of the Pahdo team’s approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

I spend so much of my public life talking about the challenges of startups precisely because it’s not for most people and with Shark Tank and Silicon Valley and The Social Network we as a society have so glamorized startups that we expect them to be all fun and games. In reality working at startups often sucks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. It has developed its own tech stack that optimizes the performance of each game.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In the future I don’t believe that FourSquare’s “check-in&# game with badges will be enough to hold users interests but for now it’s working well. So I expect more and new games from FourSquare in the future. Is the game over? Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I also often tell people the simple hack is to watch Brain Games. It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

In just the same way that not every CEO is strong in every category, I worry less about my lack of entrepreneurial success or long venture tenure when I have the support of experience partners at First Round or our co-investors. 5 Be a student of the game.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I explain VC “road kill” – why some VCs may be gun-shy investing in your category (if they lost a lot of money in your space they are unlikely to want to double-down on the category. Jason asks what the end game is, but Naval claims they don’t really have one in mind. My personal concern is for that of the inexperienced angel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Today I am so excited to announce our latest investment in the category —  Nanit  — which is a smart baby monitor. Osmo produces games, drawing tools and educational toys (most recently a game called “Coding” that can teach children as young as four to program using physical tiles to teach logic.)

investing 208

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I see this emerging in Seattle and the passion of “a few key individuals&# who can help shift the game. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

Before the politics that we call the rap game. No Category' I’m guessin’ that if we can make some wishes outta’ airplanes. Then maybe yo maybe I’ll go back to the days. And back when ain’t nobody listen to my mixtape. And back before I tried to cover up my slang. So can I get a wish, To end the politics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Friendster was the trailblazer in this category allowing people to create personal pages and connect to other people in a LinkedIn style but without the “business&# and with a little more interactivity. This will take a few years but players such as Meebo are already innovating in this category though their toolbar.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Thus, this ranking serves as a tool to identify and understand category trends, and not as an exhaustive ranking of all consumer AI platforms. Alongside ChatGPT, this category includes Google’s Bard and Quora’s Poe, all ranked in the top 5.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Global financial services platform Square is honoring businesses that are “changing the entrepreneurial game” through its inaugural Square 50 awards. Drawing from their global base of Sellers, the company has set up 10 categories featuring 50 businesses that the public can vote on through October 24 at 1 am PDT.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Every few years, the games industry reinvents itself via new technological breakthroughs. Past examples include the Free to Play era, kickstarted by the dawn of novel game loops and monetization systems, along with the introduction of Mobile as a new distribution platform, which now accounts for $92.6B

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

If Bird has thousands of scooters in a neighborhood (and if it can acquire these scooters at cheaper prices due to scale advantages) then it’s significantly more difficult for new entrants to launch without serious capital and it’s hard to get serious capital from investors who perceive you’re late to the game. Brand matters.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

On the consumer side, we’re seeing some companies across gaming, fitness and productivity that are earning and retaining their audiences at a respectable rate. They’re not treating VR as just another gaming peripheral but as a way to create very cool, often celebrity-driven, content.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A true “metaverse” may not yet exist , but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. Gaming platform Roblox was touted as a metaverse frontrunner. Startups began to describe themselves as metaverse companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

The product, called Kitty Medi Check, was recently voted third in the cat category at the Global Pet Expo 2023 held in Orlando, Florida. With more than 1,000 new pet products introduced at the event, Kitty Medi Check stood out as one of the top products in the cat category, as voted by participating buyers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We hear a lot of discussion around the best practices for launching a mobile game, and one particular topic that often comes up is: whether or not to do a soft launch. And if you do soft launch, how can you tell if your game will be successful? There are typically two stages of soft launch: alpha and beta.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Now, we also went into gaming and then ‘close by’ categories, while some markets went a little bit outside of consumer electronics to become a good place for sustainable consumption.” The company will also test some new categories as it grows in the electronics space. “We Beyond this, we are testing a few related categories.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The capital was raised by limited partners, traditional VC funds, family offices, and angel investors both inside and outside the crypto ecosystem, with global gaming platform WEMIX leading the investment, Zhang noted.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

Responsive Low Hanging Fruit – I view email in the category of urgent but not (always) important. Try random products, play random games or send funny Tweets. Some of it is important, no doubt. But much of it isn’t. The obvious answer is that you need to time box this stuff.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. ” LA-based gaming studio Scopely raises $200M at a $1.7B valuation. .

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