Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. Why Eastern Europe? in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Block.one’s relatively small fine given its massive raise, in my view, is not too dissimilar from the small fines that tech giants Facebook, Google and others have paid due to privacy violations. Both governments asserted that no private entity should claim monetary power.

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ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2018

HR GO , an HR recruitment firm, used Sentient Ascend , AI-powered conversion optimization technology, to test 1,080 designs on their site. They experienced over 153% more conversions, according to VP of Marketing for Sentient Technologies Jeremy Miller. It’s expected to reach about $17 billion in 2020 and jump to $89.8

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

And yet, most regional development efforts are still floundering - at best, moving slowly, and not very surely - and we need to understand why. We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. There are pockets of entrepreneurship developing in various European capitals. One is culture. Jade Magnet. Discuss.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. Let me start with the obvious… Airbnb is a remarkable company which is redefining the hospitality industry in a number of ways.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Gain Grow Retain is built to inspire SAS and technology leaders who are facing day to day. Duct Tape Transcript. From money printing. So, right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. His lab specializes in accelerating the discovery of new drug compounds and treatments.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

In this posts I review the potential risks for the Israeli tech ecosystem and the mitigating factors that counter some of them. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 billion raised in 2020. Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ).

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Google Corporate Development – Google may sometimes invest in a company from the balance sheet.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2022

Evolution, defined as the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form is the word that describes my business in 2021. With all of the challenges created by the global pandemic– supply chain shortages, hiring difficulties, new technology– Improovy remained transparent with its customers and employees.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Second: These addresses are some of the most exciting places to visit in tech because upon arriving, one can instantly see what true scale looks like in action. Matching Algorithms.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Probably the first ‘’red flag’’ was Apple’s announcement that the company had revised its revenue guidance due to a slowdown at manufacturing sites in China as well as reduced demand by Chinese consumers. The same happened in Japan as Nissan closed its plants due to production slowdowns in China.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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Transformify

AUGUST 9, 2018

Everyone who leverages technology to do their job while being less dependent on location is a digital nomad. Remote work requires specific processes, technology and management skills. That’s how the Market Entry Pack was developed. Are you already shocked? RebuildLives has a similar story.

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Transformify

JULY 17, 2019

An accomplished leader and mentor, Lopez reaffirms the company’s commitment in providing its multicultural global workforce with ongoing professional development and personal growth opportunities. Asia is amazing but the culture is completely different if compared to the US and Europe. How do you address such cases?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. It was a full service travel agency tech platform that was quite old and it was quite problematic. We were thrilled to welcome Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as our first guest to the virtual event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

21:16) Moving drug compounds from Europe to the US after the flight embargo and what the data showed. (22:57) 21:16) Moving drug compounds from Europe to the US after the flight embargo and what the data showed. (22:57) 2:16) Nadja Mannowetz on her background. (2:38) 8:05) Discussion about niclosamide and safety. (10:58) I have a Ph.D

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Girls in Tech. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Seed Startups. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In mid-March, as the coronavirus was sweeping through Asia and Europe, Tomas Pueyo published a piece on Medium titled "The Hammer and the Dance: What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders Buy Us Time." You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It included everything from preparing the health care system to testing, treatments, and the acceleration of vaccine development. As 2020 began, most Americans thought the coronavirus--if we thought of it at all--was something that was going to be a problem in China only. Ron delivered the opposite message loud and clear. It's hard.

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