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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. Most of the reviews rant about how cute the game is, so they probably like that too. Lina Chen: Number one, we learned to code and made a prototype ourselves.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

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Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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Reviewing financial & operational performance. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references. Mentorship.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

TechCrunch LA

“This could also be due to changes in the competitive landscape … and there may be changes with First Round Capital itself,” says one investor. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins. “Mamoon is a pretty legit, good investor.

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Smartest Motorcycle Helmet Raises over $900K in One Day | Skully AR-1

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For those who may not be familiar with the Skully AR-1, its a motorcycle helmet with heads up display, review camera and GPS navigation. Skully is doing an introductory price of$1,399 if you should be one of the first to get the helmet when it ships in May 2015. Open SDK – develop your own apps for SKULLY Synapse(TM).

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Interview with Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder, FloQast

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For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

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Southern California Sees $1.9 Billion In Q1 Deals, Biggest Since Dot Com Boom

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billion in investments in Q1 of 2015, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association. More than half of this quarter''s investment due to a single, nearly $1 billion investment in Hawthorne-based SpaceX. Southern California saw a staggering $1.9 invested in SmartDrive Systems.