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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

It says it will also be spending on product development. Where kids are concerned, a giant of the category remains Roblox — which leverages social gaming to get children interested in learning programming and potentially earning money off of their creations. We are very excited to support Kodland on their journey.”

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

TechCrunch

Stream , which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps and other services by way of a few lines of code, has raised $38 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out its existing business as well as to work on new features. Together, the apps Stream powers cover more than 1 billion users.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

TechCrunch

Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. Gamers want new games, new games need gamers.”

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

StartupNation

Insights gained from an effective analytics strategy can not only save you resources and time, but also broaden your customer base, increase productivity, and put your employees at ease by showing that leadership is educated and responsive.”. Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go Prioritize. Go on the offensive.

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Reflections on YCombinator Demo Day: How the Seed Market Has Changed

Tomasz Tunguz

enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional). Platforms-as-a-Service, which enable developers to build and scale applications (Heroku), have also seen a decline in numbers. Unlike the 2012 class, there were no gaming companies in 2014.

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

TechCrunch

“We have long-term goals to be one of the largest gaming companies in the world, and we want to be able to reach that goal in a quick amount of time.” ” Spyke’s arrival in the market comes at an interesting crossroads for casual gaming. ” But she added that Spyke decided to take a different approach.

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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.