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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

I scoured the academic research on crowdfunding, philanthropy, and helping behavior to understand when and why people donate money (and how you can use those principles in a crowdfunding campaign). Bekkers and Wiepking (2010) examined why people donate to charities. Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Following several completed advertising campaigns, Ad.ly has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. 4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones).

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A Marketer’s Guide to Kaggle for Analytics and Data Science

ConversionXL

Kaggle launched in 2010. Working with this dataset can be valuable in terms of understanding the underlying structure of Google Analytics data and experimenting with a number of advanced statistical and data mining techniques that can’t be applied when the data is in aggregate form (which is the norm with standard Google Analytics.).

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. I went to excellent public schools (so-called science magnets) that had computer classes, which meant they had networked computers that I could use. Ill explain in a moment.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

While the amount of social gaming on other social networks, especially the Asian networks, has significantly increased over the course of the year, the vast majority of social gaming still takes place on Facebook. The recovering economy has really boosted brand ad budgets in 2010, with online ad spend back to setting records again.

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Crisis Shmisis: 40 deals, more than $400 Million raised in Q2 2010 in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. The company has raised $14 million till date.