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APRIL 15, 2010
I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. I especially like Jelli , which is user power radio.
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JUNE 18, 2010
What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Read more: PaidContent.
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OCTOBER 1, 2009
So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !
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NOVEMBER 14, 2010
They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. I have called it a “mug’s game&# and I mostly try to avoid it. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on.
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AUGUST 11, 2009
I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. 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).
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JANUARY 19, 2010
I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Congratulations. Get them involved!
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MAY 7, 2011
Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. There are a bunch of incentives: Desire to help people by sharing knowledge (Yelp). Desire to be an expert (Wikipedia). Trying to get discovered for a job someday. Fog Creek now has 35 people.
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