TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. David Thacker, Greylock. Victoria Treyger, Felicis. “In

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . Siddharth Sinha , founder, Dresma . “It StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Buddy Media was an amazing exit, but I never really thought of it like “enterprise software” I thought about it more like an agency that had developed off the shelf social tools around its service solutions. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). That said, the founder is Stewart Butterfield , who co-founded Flickr.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

Each time, I’m impressed by the intelligence, ambition and the polish of the founders presenting companies only a few weeks or months old. enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional). I’ve been attending for six years now.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

“It’s closed dozens of partnerships and business development deals, and with some of the biggest names in tech. The IPO market is healthy again, but M&A still represents 88% of exits: So far this year, there were 503 IPOs and 5,203 deals,” writes Boissevain, founder of Ascento Capital. How does it do it?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. We are betting this will start happening in casual games, too.” “They let people play together and compete together.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Since its launch in 2018, Carry1st, a publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised funding from investors such as Google via its Africa Investment Fund and Avenir Growth Capital. a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round. 1 downloaded game in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Pragma is building what it calls a “backend as a service,” providing ready-made infrastructure to developers of online, live service games. Pragma is launching a starter kit today designed to allow developers to quickly set up and test game loops. Image Credits: Pragma.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson.

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