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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. Developers also choose Epic’s Unreal Engine for cinematic production, visualization, design and simulation.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. Do you have good quips?

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. Do you have good quips?

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The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

Xconomy

For consumer robots, though, people want to talk naturally and we need to design casual dialogs that make it easy to express desires without having to give every small detail. Why not just design them to be nice all the time? Also, language allows for multiple interpretations (e.g.,

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The Need For Software Localization Still Prevails

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though it usually makes sense from a marketing perspective for a startup to stage software rollout to various locales, it makes no sense to design and implement your application that way. Late translation will uncover design issues that are expensive to fix, and the inherent time delays and testing can set back delivery up to six months.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design. They’re the place focused on design. They think design wins. It’s your job to find a continued way to stay on the radar screen of the VC. You had your great meeting. Test interest.

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