Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). Tiny Speck Online gaming start-up. I found this investment strange since normally VC’s hate to bet on gaming companies. In my mind, not a typical VC investment. OTHER STUFF.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

We haven’t hit that wall yet for three reasons: 1) not enough elapsed time, 2) the VC market is frenzied now, too and 3) we haven’t seen a market downturn since the volume picked up. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience. As an analogue, they referred to the social gaming explosion a decade ago. Because we had social media platforms and mobile phones then, we were socializing over those — so we naturally looked for ways to play over them,” they said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I’ve seen some founders — as a VC, this is gonna sound self-serving me saying this — but I’ve seen some founders that raise way too little capital in their pre-seed round or their seed round. I think Nick did a wonderful job of setting the tone for the type of social platform Rec Room wanted to be from the start,” said Zhan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Plus, don’t miss our first investor surveys of 2021: one by Lucas Matney on social gaming , and another by Mike Butcher that gathered responses from Portugal-based investors on a wide variety of topics. 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities. So, ‘gambit’ seems to fit!”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Facebook Apps, iPhone Apps, Social Games and now The Real-time Web (finally a new, sexier buzzword to replace Web 2.0. Why do VC’s care about these years? Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital. The last 12 months has seen the rise of many new trends.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Industry watchers frequently compare the upstart to giants like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, but founder Binsen Tang comes from a tech background, having funded ELEX Technology, a social gaming company that found success internationally. Everything feels right about the company,” said VC investor Anna Fang.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

We are betting this will start happening in casual games, too.” ” The funding is coming from a single investor, Griffin Gaming Partners, a VC that focuses (as you can guess by its name) on startups working in and around the games industry. . “They let people play together and compete together.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Funding for women founders continues to disappoint : New data indicates that less than 2% of VC funding last year went to all-women teams. The rising dissonance between public concern and private enthusiasm has us wondering when VCs might slow their roll just a bit. Startups/VC. What’s going on? TechCrunch explored the question.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

You’ve found a VC partner or principal who has invited you to the Monday partners’ meeting. This is true whether your at a sales meeting or at a VC firm. This happens often is sales meetings or VC meetings. As both an entrepreneur (in VC and sales meetings) and as a VC I’ve seen this happen many times.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

Sales of avatars in social games nearly 50% of total revenue eclipsing revenue from affiliate transaction, ads or paid games (slide 97). Mobile game content revenue > PC game revenue (slide 98). Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction. So it was a thrill for me last month to be able to have dinner with Joel and shoot the breeze.

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