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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

Both Sides of the Table

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. Your goal is to increase the top end of the funnel (more people using the free product) and increase the rate of conversion to paid. Why do a freemium model?

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies.

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

While the former owns an older motorcycle which he is usually able to diagnose and repair himself through the use of rational problem-solving skills, the latter simply hopes for the best for his bike and focuses on being “In the moment”, and not on rational analysis. As Witt puts it: “The studio engineers hated the mp3.

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Incredibuild powers up with $35M to boost its distributed, faster approach to games and software development

TechCrunch

The company has picked up $35 million in a Series B round of funding — money that it will be using for product development, as well as to strengthen its ecosystem with more investment into community, developer relations and cloud programs across more markets.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. The tech is open source, but Nym confirms the plan is to use some of the Series A funding for an independent audit of new code.

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

Both Sides of the Table

I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. Still, as a VC I value proprietary dealflow & long term relationships. I know it was over heated when a deal where I wrote one of the first checks on (as an angel, not VC) went out on AngelList. My personal use. My view for VCs.

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U.S. Venture Deal Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ian Hathaway

In fact, through the first three quarters of the year, 2020 is on pace to be the most active year for venture deals since the Dotcom era peak in 2000. Since the first revision is not available for the most recent quarter, Q3-2020, I will adjust it upward using the average (in percent) first revision for the previous four quarters.