Wednesday, February 20, 2002

Venture Reporter switches to subscription, as explained in this e-mail sent by Editor & CEO Jason McCabe Calacanis yesterday: "As you may have noticed already, today we've moved from our mostly free model of publishing to a mostly paid one. Now, before you get worried that we're going to ask you for some huge some of money (like the $500 or $15,000 our competitors charge) to access our flagship products, let me explain what we're doing. For $100 a year, you can now receive both our print magazine (six issues) and have access our VentureReporter.net website.'

They also sell custom research services and a $1,000 per year Gold Pass, an executive contact database.