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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

. “Together, we see this as a key opportunity to bring even more innovation and creativity to Hubs than we could alone,” Udom said in a blog post. “We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

Users on Beams are encouraged to join interest-based groups and (asynchronously) listen or clip into topic-based threads — on, well, whatever you want to talk about, be it art or politics, fashion, food or music etc etc… Topics on Beams are a real pick’n’mix — and the overall experience can feel pretty random.

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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. Building Strategically with Athletes, Entertainers, and Executives Reaching out to potential strategic investors with significant influence demands creativity and resourcefulness.

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The Future of Music: How Generative AI Is Transforming the Music Industry

Andreessen Horowitz

Soon after, Google unveiled MusicLM, a text-to-music tool that generates songs from a basic prompt; Paul McCartney used AI to extract John Lennon’s voice for a new Beatles track; and Grimes offered creators 50% of the royalties for streams of songs that used an AI clone of her voice.

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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. I think it’s probably about 40% with the portfolio, about 40% with the executive community, and then about 20% on work with the veterans community, which we can get into later. The mission is the elevator pitch.

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