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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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The Pivot : We came up with a fresh take on the plethora of AR-style apps that create visual effects based on face detection and tracking… [Poor user experience] had a big impact on our retention metrics. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy We needed 40% day-one returns and were closer to 25%. The clock kept ticking.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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Tel Aviv may be the traditional “tech center” of Israel, but there were always good reasons for discriminating VCs to look to Jerusalem as well — the lower rents, easy access to a top university in Hebrew University, a highly-skilled immigrant population, as well as government tax incentives. Today, there is no such skepticism.

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