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We’re Entering the Stay-Home Economy. Here are 10 Industries That Will Be Winners

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While some of the hardest-hit industries such as hospitality, travel and entertainment industries are sure to come back to life, other changes might be longer lasting. Parents, especially working parents, are scrambling to keep children entertained while they are home from school and isolated alongside their parents. Streaming Media.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. 6SensorLabs.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my In these last two categories LA has as much of an advantage as any other market.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Podcasts have emerged as a major new category in media/entertainment/news/education etc. We have seen huge deals for big podcast hosts like Bill Simmons and Joe Rogan, both of whom did transactions with Spotify for nine-figure amounts.

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Listen Up! Why Revolution Ventures is Investing in Indianapolis-based Casted

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As short-form media consumption and the effectiveness of influencer-style marketing have increased, and as enterprises continue to search for better customer acquisition and engagement channels, podcasting has been fueled to a multi-billion-dollar category with nearly 2M shows hosted in 2020¹. Stay tuned! [1]

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