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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe says that the Israeli economy is in good shape and has momentum, yet has a cloudy forecast ahead of it. At the beginning of the year 2000, there were 133 venture capital firms in Israel, today there are less than 30. emphasis mine] In the last 15 years, the Israel economy didn’t succeed to make many companies like this.

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How to Start a Home Health Care Business

Up and Running

percent in 2000 to 19.6 Home health care is unique in many ways, but the one thing it has in common with every other new business venture is that a lack of adequate planning and forecasting is a sure way to undercut its potential success. The most traditional routes are bank loans, small business loans, or angel investors.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Angel investors earn higher returns than small VCs, who in turn earn higher returns than large VCs, let alone most other asset classes. This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Can Investors Spook the Market into Falling? “10 angel investors walk into a bar …” Do you remember AngelGate at Bin38 ? In short – no.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. We have the most features. Silly, right?