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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. million at a $30M fully diluted valuation. .

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

StartupNation

“In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level. Strategy and messaging will certainly need to correspond to the times. The COVID-19 pandemic struck us hard and completely derailed our expansion strategy for 2020.

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Role’s video role-playing platform makes a $2.75M charm attempt on the burgeoning tabletop world

TechCrunch

Some platforms, like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds , have seized on this opportunity to provide online video collaboration platforms for playing games like D&D, strategy titles, and many others of the general tabletop type. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

That said I worry that V1 of the strategy isn’t a home run. 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. and many, many more) plus Howard Morgan.

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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 team has introduced a major innovation to social gaming. ” Prior to the retail raise Overplay raised $1.8

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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. Twitter had a fundamentally flawed strategy from the beginning. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Building Communities.