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Here’s how working with VCs can make you more than just money

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 2:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Finance, Podium


Even though it might seem biased — coming from a VC — I genuinely believe that for ambitious founders looking to grow fast, VCs are a necessary step on the road to world domination. Unless you’ve got bundles of cash to self-fund, VC investment gives you the resources to get your product to market, scale your operations significantly faster than you could otherwise, and avoid many of the common pitfalls that early startups face. Yet, despite the central role that VCs play in driving startup growth, many founders still have a healthy dose of suspicion when it comes to bringing us onboard.…

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Tencent’s Chinese PUBG dupe has enemies who wave after you shoot them

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 12:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, gaming


Tencent revealed this week it would be pulling its test version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds from the Chinese market. Instead, it’s going to publish a similar but more, um, approachable app called “Game for Peace.” Tencent announced it was pulling back the test version of PUBG it’d released to Chinese gamers. Shortly thereafter, it announced the release of Game for Peace. According to Reuters, Tencent says the game “pays tribute to the blue sky warriors that guard our country’s airspace” aka, the Chinese air force. The app looks like PUBG, walks like PUBG, but it doesn’t play like PUBG. Instead, “Game for Peace” is a censored, tidied up version of the same gameplay. Guns are still…

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The best co-op games to play with your badass mom on Mother’s Day

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 8:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Moms deserve better than dinner at a restaurant in a shopping mall for Mother’s Day. Give them the heads of their enemies instead, with a day of co-op gaming. Trust us: they’ll prefer it over a dozen wilted gas station roses. It doesn’t matter if the most important mom in your life is yourself, your birth mother, the person who raised you, your kids’ mom, that one person who lovingly nags everyone in your group, or a single dad doing it all: there’s a pretty good chance they’re into video games. Nearly half of the US population are gamers. We’d…

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Wacom’s new Intuos Pro Small packs serious drawing chops in a $250 portable package

May09
by on May 9, 2019 at 7:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Wacom just shrunk its most advanced drawing tablet. The company today revealed the Intuos Pro small, bringing the most popular professional drawing tablet to a much more portable package. Bonus: at $249, it’s a lot cheaper than the Medium ($379) and Large ($499) options as well. The tablet offers almost everything you’d find on its larger siblings. It supports Wacom’s Pro Pen 2 and Pro Pen 3D with 8,192 levels of sensitivity, tilt recognition, and low latency. The caveats are that the tablet only features six customizable buttons to the larger one’s eight, and you can’t replace the top later…

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