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Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011

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The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 Let’s take a look at how VC money was deployed in Israel 2011. Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. billion raised in 2009.

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Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011

VC Cafe

The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 Let’s take a look at how VC money was deployed in Israel 2011. Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. billion raised in 2009.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. Internet scale. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. It allows you many more exit opportunities.

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IBC 2011 Attracts 28 Israeli Media and Mobile Startups to Amsterdam

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The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D. The PeerTV solution combines the Peerstation Internet based Set Top Boxes and the MX 3.0

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. 3/15/2011 – All in on Facebook, “Your Trusted Social Media Marketing Company” Social Media Platform. 7/19/2011 – Same page, but Wayback Machine stops crawling pages.

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