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

TechCrunch

.” The full list of partners right now includes Dire Wolf Digital, Nomad Games, Auroch Digital, Restoration Games, Steve Jackson Games, Knights of Unity, Skyship Studios, EncounterPlus, PlannarAlly and Sugar Gamers, as well as individual creators and developers. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

TechCrunch

The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms. Riot Games (developer of League of Legends), Tokyo’s Akatsuki Entertainment Technology Fund (the company behind Dragon Ball Z), Raine Ventures and fintech VC TTV Capital participated.

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

StartupNation

I’ve had the opportunity to help business owners strategize their plans using PR as a tool to help navigate through difficult times with clarity. Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go The opportunity is there, you just need to find it. Go on the offensive. Don’t try to fight it.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. We talked about Facebook. Read more: PaidContent. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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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.

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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. It would be foolish for any investor to write off consumer investing as a category because of the massive opportunity consumer internet companies offer.