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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

Both Sides of the Table

and Petri was co-founder and head of creative at Remedy Entertainment that launched the hit PC games Max Payne and Alan Wake. By September 26th we had submitted a term sheet which was signed on October 4th and financing was closed in less than 30 days.

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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

Both Sides of the Table

Because the videos show exactly what life would be like if a young Elon Musk came to pitch VCs today and said I want to transform P2P finance, get people driving electric cars and send a man to mars in our lifetime. The reference to Andy Dunn and me is responding to this post I wrote (in response to Andy’s earlier post).

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Contact, a platform for creatives backed by Maisie Williams, raises $1.9M seed led by Founders Fund

TechCrunch

Creatives face late payments, and often opaque industry practices, even as top talent agencies have collectively achieved a valuation of $20 billion. It’s now looking to address the wider problems referred to above, with a new round of funding involving some key players in the creative industries. Reuben Selby.

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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

TechCrunch

As illustrated by games like AI Dungeon, AI — while imperfect — can inject surprising creativity and novelty into branching narrative storytelling. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. Inworld AI was founded on this premise. Image Credits: Inworld AI.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Certain late-stage VCs have invested in some of my past funds, partly to motivate us to refer future investment opportunities to them. Refer a startup, get $2,500”.

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How Much Due Diligence Does An Angel Really Need To Do?

Paul G. Silva

A starting point is to ask the entrepreneur a lot of questions and of course check their references. As you talk with those references, get them to suggest additional people for you to talk with. Sometimes these are the most important interviews you will do. So what is the right amount of due diligence for you?

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Engagement beats scale: Inside Morning Brew’s approach to subscriber growth

Entrepreneur's Handbook

More than anything I’ll talk about in this post, the growth of our audience is because of our content team’s talent and creativity. Unsurprisingly, we’ve also seen that after a reader refers a friend, their engagement with the newsletter strengths and their lifetime with us is on average much longer than that of a reader who never refers.