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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

This is effectively a sequel to my study of best practices in deal origination , published last year in the Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , and Business Insider. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US. Some VCs monitor Internet traffic reports or job boards to see which companies are growing.

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Bitesize Monday: Israeli Startup Headlines

VC Cafe

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Chicago-based InterCall buys Unisfair , Israel’s virtual conference tool, for $35 million. Perhaps this is how we’ll start solving co-existence in Israel? Footbo raises $2.5