VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative.” — Reed Hastings , co-chief executive of Netflix Inc., Or are employees going to keep the sweat pants and make more adaptations? For example, should European employees start applying for US-based jobs? on working from home. “I

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” 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. The founders have started companies before.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

However, in October of last year the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs reported that risk averseness is now so extreme in Europe that the discrepancy in investment between USA and EU investors is massive: The numbers for VCs were even more astounding: apart from Israel, investments by EU VCs were only 10 percent of their US counterparts.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Replay the event. 12 hrs ago.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

We rarely hear of such a large round amongst Internet startups in Israel, which is why Wix’s founding round is particularly interesting. Wix , the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. Wix currently has 185 employees and plans to recruit an additional 100 in 2011. million sites.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. Debra and I recently went to Israel for the first time and we found it to be very similar?—?because where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

As the company today announces its $57m Series C round led by Accel, I sat down with Gloat’s co-founder and CEO Ben Reuveni to discuss what inspired him to set off on this entrepreneurial journey, how he has seen approaches to talent change in light of COVID-19 and much more… ? It took me ages to initiate anything new.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

S econdMarket , the marketplace for alternative investments such as company options and private company stock trading, announced yesterday that it has launched operations in Israel (the Israeli site is live already here ). Given Israel’s active private company sector, the move makes perfect sense.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As an employee, I never waited for instructions to do something. What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. The co-founder / marriage analogy is apt. And I’ve always taken initiative.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. Today, we’ve reached the point where Europe deserves its own Index, and we’re very happy to announce the creation of the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the Index of public cloud companies born in Europe and Israel.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 14, 2019

Micha Kaufman, Fiverr's founder and CEO What a great achievement for Micha Kaufman and the whole team at Fiverr, which made its debut on the NYSE today. They have built a company that is changing how the world works together, and which facilitate millions of transactions between buyers and sellers across over 200 categories.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. We wanted to find a name that had meaning and that would keep every employee focused on what we are all about. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel. Thanks to Ethan Warren, Corner Piece Productions ! #7 7 – Translation of Sundiata.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round. TechCrunch article.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2010

Israel-based eToro offers social “trading arenas” for foreign exchange (FOREX), commodities and indices in a fun and social way. eToro is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in NY, Australia and Cyprus. The company has 120 employees and is led by co-founder and CEO Jonathan Assia and his brother Ronen.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. The company has 25 employees and has raised $10 million so far – most recently $6 million in a round led by Emerald Technology Ventures. Footbo raises $2.5 Chicago-based Future Simple raised $1.1

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

DroidSecurity’s CEO Eran Pfeffer (formerly a co-founder and VP business development of BmyPC) will become AVG’s head of mobile solutions. It has five employees in Israel. DroidSecurity is a popular free anti virus app for Android phones, which has been downloaded 4.5

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

DroidSecurity’s CEO Eran Pfeffer (formerly a co-founder and VP business development of BmyPC) will become AVG’s head of mobile solutions. It has five employees in Israel. DroidSecurity is a popular free anti virus app for Android phones, which has been downloaded 4.5

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

DroidSecurity’s CEO Eran Pfeffer (formerly a co-founder and VP business development of BmyPC) will become AVG’s head of mobile solutions. It has five employees in Israel. DroidSecurity is a popular free anti virus app for Android phones, which has been downloaded 4.5

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. #2- Just looked at the paper I was reading.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. If I’m missing any, please contact me.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. You then came back to Europe and joined a venture firm before co-founding BlaBlaCar. How did you go from VC to founder? We were very proactive though.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Last week Ernst & Young held their annual conference Journey 2011 at the Hilton hotel in sunny Tel Aviv, Israel. Stay private only if you can grow fast enough to pay your employees and investors. Founders are often restricted to how many shares they can sell in the IPO, and this is to keep their skin in the game.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. From a geographic standpoint, the top three regions for SaaS companies are the UK, France and Israel, with around 20 logos each in our top 100.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. I was mistreated in public multiple times by employees. I actually started my business when me and my wife were living in Israel.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? Lakshman Prasad • Nov 16, 2010.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2009

The founder and former CEO and chairwoman of iRobot, Helen has been the godmother of the robotics industry in Massachusetts. MIT Professor Chiang is the technical founder of A123, the battery start-up that is shaking up how power is generated in the automobile, utility and tools industries. 4) Helen Greiner. 5) Yet Ming Chiang.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.”

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