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

Ian Hathaway

Last month, I published an analysis of venture deal activity in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrated that despite early warnings of an impending collapse, the pace of venture deal activity in the first half of 2020 was more or less on par with 2019. We now have fresh data to extend that analysis.

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The 5-Step Blueprint for Finding Your Perfect Co-Founder

Entrepreneur's Handbook

This process has been tested over 100 hours with 30+ potential co-founders — ultimately helping me co-found a project that has grown to 2000+ users in less than five months. Without further ado, here are the five actionable steps that I’ve used to find, assess, and partner with the right co-founder.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. Alomar led startups through the dot-com bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008 and will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits and how to identify the proof points founding teams must define before their next raise.

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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. My personal use. Just don’t use AngelList as a short-cut for the hard work. But to be clear, used properly there is NO downside to AngelList for entrepreneurs. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. A few reasons.

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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. “ We do think Tor made all the right decisions when they built the software — at the time there was no interest from venture capital in privacy, there was only interest from the U.S.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. Founded in 2000 by Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Kumar Arora and Rajesh Agarwal, Micromax first started life as a small IT firm, making its first move into phones only in 2008.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. This video discusses issues like: 1.

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