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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Waze’s free mobile application provides a social network where drivers interact, reporting on road conditions. HADASIT LAUNCHES JEWISH-ARAB BIOMED INCUBATOR IN GALILEE. million shekel investment by Hadasit, several million dollars have been pledged to Ways from social organizations as well.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Mobile incubator lab. Mobile ad network. Urbanspoon closed the loop by now having a reservation system for restaurants. Some people whom I met: Android game developers. prior Startup Weekend attendees. Mobile payment company. Ringtone company. Sales from a major tech blog. Startup bank. Software strategist. Big book retailer.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. Social media. Social networking. Social games. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. 3 days ago. 3 days ago. 4 days ago. From $1.5B

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