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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

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million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. With the mobile app launched in 2014, Tapiture continues to refine its technology to reach its users. The post Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu. I am drawn to it.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). ” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m and the bigger funds can’t get in directly. Where are we today?

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How ProGuides Is Helping Gamers Master Their Game, With Sam Wang

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We have highly engaging courses, taught by professional players, and where you track your progress, driven by data, and which also features an on-demand marketplace to help you find any coach you want to help you improve your play on any game. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO. Stuart Frost: I think it's a combination of things. It's just exploding.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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When VCs Play Defense

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Before skimmers race to the comments or Twitter to complain – I’m not saying intro’s aren’t valuable – of course they are. You need to say “no” faster to things you know you’re not going to fund based on fit, focus, geography, quality of concept, conflicts with portfolio.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea. However, if you’re going to start a company and be an entrepreneur, you need to network and you have to hustle.

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