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Playhouse is TikTok meets Zillow for the next generation of homeowners

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“We want to build a product for the next generation that wants to be mobile, video driven, exciting and fun.”. The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag. Users can also view listings on a map, then click to see a video about the home. What are the neighbors doing?”. Image Credits: Playhouse.

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Stop, Breathe & Think Finds $1.3M

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in a seed funding round. The funding was led by LaunchPad Digital Health, and also included Aspect Ventures and angels. The startup, co-founded by Julie Campistron and Jamie Price, develops an app which helps user monitor their emotional health. The company previously raised funding from Amplify LA.

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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 We are in a bubble (with so many private $1bn+ valuations).

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Interview with Jake Winebaum, Brighter

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Donnelly, and he also was behind eCompanies, which invested in such companies as JAMDAT Mobile, Boingo Wireless, and USBX. The way brighter makes that dental care more affordable, is it empowers consumers to find dental benefits, and allows them to compare that by price and reputation. 45 billion of that is spent out-of-pocket.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. .” The approach was clever and novel.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

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A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active. I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund. What exactly is seed funding anymore? They do many early-stage deals.

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

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There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors. This could happen if every VC fund continues to launch a seed fund. Minutes 11-13. Minutes 28 – 31.