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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. I don’t think my unwillingness to use it is generational (as in I’m 42 and don’t “get it&# ) – I think it’s a life stage issue. Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. In 2010, SonarSource’s open source project hit a milestone of over 2,000 downloads per month. It’s an acute problem.

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10 years, 10 moments with Gabriela Gandel

Impact Hub

Through 2010, the then ‘The Hub’ had gone through a management buy-out process of the original franchisor. Gabriela Gandel at Impact Hub's first Global Gathering, Madrid 2010. In the early years, there were only four people in the global team and most of us worked part-time. Our first global gathering in Madrid.

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Reimagining B2B Commerce with Faire

Y Combinator

For example, Cliffs Variety, an independent home goods store in San Francisco’s Castro district, uses a Facebook page to alert neighborhood residents about store openings, pickup times, and product availability. Annual growth rates of suburban/exurban areas spiked between 2010-11 and 2016-17, while urban growth declined.

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Why did you choose that strategy? We want our customers to be delighted with what we are selling.

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Meme Mapping: Learn to Run Better Creative Tests by Reverse-Engineering Hollywood

Reforge

Then dive into how Hollywood uses memes to help people find the right movie to watch, to introduce you to the concept of memetics. Finally we’ll run through a step-by-step example of how to use Meme Mapping to get a more consistent return on investment from experimentation. He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics.