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Riot Games Creates College, High School Sports Body

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Los Angeles-based videogame publisher Riot Games has created a brand new organization to govern college esports, called the Riot Scholastic Association of America (RSAA). According to Riot Games, the new organization will be the governing body for Riot's college and high school esports activity.

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Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech

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10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.” See in the end, in LA VC firms are far more collaborative than competitive. Don’t we know it.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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Delane Parnell’s plan to conquer amateur esports

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This is like talking about the NBA and the value of its sponsorships and broadcast rights as if that is the entirety of the basketball market in the US. What esports means is playing video games competitively bound to governance and a competitive ruleset. Eric P: What then drove you to found PlayVS?

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. You must know when to sell to leads and when to market to them.

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