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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. “Overplay is all about democratizing game development, and we’re excited to welcome our community as co-owners on this incredible journey.”

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. Jeff Atwood had a community of people built up from his blog. Building Communities. Distinct Communities.

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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. I especially like Jelli , which is user power radio. 10 million in Series B Menlo Ventures , Steamboat.

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

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper. The chief executive also noted that more details around the utility of the governance token for MVM would be released to the platform’s member community in due course as part of its “build in public” ethos.

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

TechCrunch

” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. Mehta noted that the pandemic nearly cooked the company by derailing their funding, which was originally supposed to come through around this time last year when everything went pear-shaped.

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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

StartupNation

We have seen KPIs jump more than 50 percent in the last month because people are stuck at home and have more time to spend with social gaming and shopping communities. They will not go back to normal any time soon, or at all. Startups need to work harder and faster to capture this trend.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. It was clear that the venture community — and the few entrepreneurs that they anointed to be part of their chosen — were a closely knit elite who wanted nothing to do with outsiders. Image Credits: Supplied.