ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? Vin proposes to build a restaurant search, reviews and ratings site for the Malaysian market catering both to tourists and locals.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). TheNextBigZing.com. She wants to sell these products on her site.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. Globally, this is a much larger number. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Photo by tatlin.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Photo by thesaint.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Then Kristen Becker presented Kir Devries , an e-commerce site that offers a well-edited collection of unique goods for practical everyday living that have been sourced due to their impeccable craftsmanship, unique design and style, and their "good factor" in the moderate price range. Kir Devries. Photo by takatuka.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels.

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

In the big picture, it’s needless to say that the market is going through a challenging economic period, but despite tech layoffs and a decline investments in Q2 2022 (as was seen in the US) the Israeli tech industry faired well. IVC/Leumi Tech Israel tech review Q2 2022. billion in 395 deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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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

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For previous editions, check out these posts from July 2021 , July 2020 and May 2019. This edition includes maps of Israeli startups building the Metaverse, Insurtech, Martitime tech, Proptech and Contech, Digital Health, Smart Logistics and Supply Chain, Sports Tech and ecommerce. Metaverse tech. Maritime Tech.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2017

At the continued rate of growth, we can expect mobile to account for nearly 50% of all online sales by as soon as 2020. And while smartphones represented 46% of global ecommerce traffic in Q2 2016, Criteo data shows that only 27% of that traffic converted, which indicates there’s a major mobile optimization problem. Image Source.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

With the benefit of increasing IPOs in the last few years, we are starting to see better growth: In 2020, there were close to 500 IPOs in the U.S., billion, more than was raised in the entirety of 2020, an admittedly banner year for SPACs. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.

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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. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Tech*if*er0*urs â??

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