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They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. I have called it a “mug’s game&# and I mostly try to avoid it. It was an investment management class.
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Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 million in seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, the startup’s CEO, Adi Sideman, exclusively told TechCrunch. One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in socialgame economics,” Sideman said.
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I’m no dummy on businesses that are in the financial services sector, but my 3 partners have been investing in the space for 20 years so I’m clearly on a different level. In our current portfolio 3 or his 4 investments are in the Fin Svcs space. 30% of our last fund went into deals in this sector. Get them involved!
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Despite many distractions in our first full week of the new year, we published a full slate of stories exploring different aspects of entrepreneurship, fundraising and investing. 8 investors discuss socialgaming’s biggest opportunities. ” 8 investors discuss socialgaming’s biggest opportunities.
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Canada, CIS Region, Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina — with the startup offering proprietary localized content for each target region (although its users are spread across some 40 countries). and Ireland, enter Spanish-speaking countries and several countries in South-East Asia,” the startup tells TechCrunch.
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Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and socialgames. I guess “social&# is just soooo last year. And I feel the same about investing. Tags: Startup Advice. That’s too late.
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