VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The Israel/U.S.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 283

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

A s every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 175

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. AMERICAN CHIPMAKER BROADCOM BUYS ISRAEL’S PROVIGENT FOR $350 MLN.

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Java Database Argentina 79

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s China is using all elements of its national power, e.g. information/ intelligence, its military might and economic strength as well as exploiting Western finance and technology. China’s goal is to challenge and overturn the U.S.-led China Unmanned Warfare Concepts.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The 2022 Founders Factories report by DealRoom and Accel shines a spotlight on the startup clusters that produced most unicorns across Europe and Israel, and then tracks the alumni of those unicorns to test where the talent goes to found their next companies. Global unicorn club (source: CB Insights ).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). Youthful Demographic : India’s high birth rate, in contrast to China’s one child policy, means a young demographic. 250 million Internet users.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. China is largely considered the most attractive market. It is believed that by 2030, China will be the globe’s largest economy. For a very long time, China has been Israel’s most significant export market.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. ISRAEL 2ND LARGEST CENTER FOR TECH STARTUPS.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. Great for them, good for Israel.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. Investment Bank Morgan Stanley raised its growth forecast for Israel to 4.8% ValueClick Inc.

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China Cofounder India 90

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. LEADING US COOPERATIVE CHS BUYS ISRAEL’S SOLBAR.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. TIE UK : TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, TiE is an organization of industry professionals who share the common interests of promoting and fostering entrepreneurial efforts. Benhamou Global Ventures. California Israel Chamber of Commerce.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. In fact, Israeli VCs are increasingly viewing China as their main source of capital. Why is China be so interesting to Israeli tech?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Waze is headquartered in Israel, has another main office in Palo Alto and recently opened a UK office in London. Waze is growing quickly, with over 7 million users already thanks to a strong global expansion. So it is very important for Waze to continue its growth and reach critical mass, as it has in Israel. There are over 1.3

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world.

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Address the global creation of innovation: Disruptive innovation is now created around the world by companies of any size, many of them startups. Our hyperconnected world is amplifying the effects of these companies and enabling them to have global impact, as seen with companies from Israel, India, China, and Brazil.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

中文-简体 (China). Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Defending Japanese Waters From Chinas Navy. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Defending Japanese Waters From Chinas Navy.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

R ecord Low for European Venture Deals; Investment in China Up 32%; Canada Ahead of 2009 Totals. Europe, Canada, Israel, Mainland China and India, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. Asia: China Sees Record Low Investment in IT; Services Remain Biggest Draw in India. NEW YORK (Nov. In India, the $8.7

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China Europe North America India 74

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

A s every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

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North America Brazil Argentina 68

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

I was fortunate to attend the party over at WATEC Israel 2011’s Cleanvest Summit. In addition to the investor-entrepreneur socializing, the government of Israel was able to score two key contracts with two foreign nations. Both Taiwan and Kenya have made agreements to exchange water technology and data revolving with Israel.

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Brazil Kenya Taiwan 97

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

SparkLabs belongs to the Global Accelerator Network , which includes Techstars , Australia’s PushStart and Microsoft’s Azure accelerator in Israel. The businesses that the accelerator favor all aim to go beyond Korea’s traditionally inward focus, and move into lucrative markets including the US, China, Japan, and others.

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South Korea Asia Azure Silicon Valley 166

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

IBM’s research center in Zurich, GM’s research center in Israel, Toyota in the U.S They helped to globalize their innovation cycle and tap foreign expertise and resources. are examples. These remote R&D labs offered companies four benefits. parent company while providing technical services for foreign customers.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Liberty Global, the world’s second largest cable TV operator, participated in the round. Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners. also participated in the round.

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Flash Venture Capital Acquisition 94

Altgate

MARCH 16, 2009

 Some of the more interesting things I've learned include: Salaries in Israel are described monthly.   In India and China there is no preferred stock.  This one really surprised me but apparently in India and China VCs don't get a different class of stock with special rights and privileges.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). iPhone 5 may come to China soon.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

TM: I was born in Israel, spent most of my adult life in the US. The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. Maybe someday.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. I’ve posted the question on Quora – and received an interesting answer from Etai Raz, founder of another Groupon clone in Israel named Groupli: It’s all rumors.

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South America Russia Acquisition 90

Altgate

MARCH 4, 2009

There are a lot of really exciting things about the upgraded study that I can’t yet talk about (more on that later), but one of them is that the survey is going global. But in 2009, the survey is going to be expanded to China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom. So I’d love a little help from my readers here.

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

This year the survey covers five countries (China, India, Israel, UK and US) in two industries (technology and life sciences). I think the 2009 data will be very interesting as it will reflect the effects of the overall economy as well as provide global comparisons. Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives. Countries like Indonesia and Israel and the Czech Republic and Slovenia and Mongolia and Singapore require masks.

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Czech Republic San Francisco Campaign Washington 113

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Global and Local. I caught a glimpse of this energy during my Venture Partner tenure with the folks at GGV Capital , who’ve been successfully investing exclusively across China and the U.S. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

and China, managing billions of dollars and driving returns for their LPs in being early investors in companies like Wish, Buddy Media, OpenDoor in the U.S. and Didi, Qunar, and countless others in China. Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [

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Venture Capital China India Cofounder 117

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

Benjamin Joffe (the author), a Frenchman who runs a consultancy in China that tries to help non-Asian investors understand the innovation occurring in Asia as a way to bring ideas to their local markets. But China literally gave us the Cell Razor. China Internet: 340MM, Mobile a staggering 650MM. slide 29).

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Asia Southern California China Japan 188

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

As was Shel Israel. It globalizes. I don’t know if he’d agree or disagree with the book, but he’s always encouraging us to think more broadly about the definition of “entrepreneur&# is a global sense). Om Malik was also on the panel. In retrospect it was quite an established, senior and worldly panel.

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