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Overplay’s Wefunder Campaign brings in $1 million from Retail Investors, Funding Social Gaming AI-Powered Tech

American Entrepreneurship

Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. The capital will be used to expand Overplay’s team and accelerate product development and user acquisition.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Communicating with the developers who write code.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products.

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

TechCrunch

Emerging markets, including Africa, account for 30% of this number; platforms like MVM see games as one way to introduce these millions of users to web3. The gaming DAO publishes mobile games in frontier markets and creates developer tools for game creators to utilize emerging business models in Web3 gaming.

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The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

TechCrunch

.” The full list of partners right now includes Dire Wolf Digital, Nomad Games, Auroch Digital, Restoration Games, Steve Jackson Games, Knights of Unity, Skyship Studios, EncounterPlus, PlannarAlly and Sugar Gamers, as well as individual creators and developers. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips

TechCrunch

Meet Powder , a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. Powder wants to build the video infrastructure for social gaming. We thought we would create a community first and then a product,” co-founder and CEO Stanislas Coppin told me.

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

TechCrunch

. “It’s not just competing against the world of other casual games, but also companies like TikTok,” Sirinoglu said. The hugely popular video app has not, to date, published any games that you actively play in the app, but it has very much carved out a place for itself in the gaming community.