Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2021

In a new book, “ The Unstoppable Startup ,” by Uri Adoni, a widely respected venture capitalist from Israel, I was pleased to see real specifics on how you can successfully demonstrate the right level of confidence and boldness, without stepping over the line into arrogance and insolence. Innovate to meet future demands you foresee.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

In a demanding career such as entrepreneurship, one can’t afford to ignore work-life balance. Pratik has spoken at NextBigWhat’s UnPluggd, IIT-Bombay, SMX Israel, and other major events across Asia. Though there is no one-size-fits-all solution, there are a few common things that most successful entrepreneurs tend to avoid.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

The common case in israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building? There is an impressive pool of marketing talent in Israel, including brilliant community managers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A new comprehensive report on human capital in Israel by the Israel Innovation Authority and Startup Nation Central found there’s a shortage of tech employees for Israeli startups and scale ups. Israel’s high tech sector employed 321,000 people in 2019, representing 9.2% What about the solutions?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

LLMs have driven an increased demand for data, caused a complete architecture change inside companies and changed how data is manipulated. Theory Ventures 2024 predictions Israel remains one of the major AI hubs globally In terms of funding, it’s safe to say that Israeli generative AI startups have yet to live to their full potential.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. Via Transportation – On-demand shared transit (Raised $137M). Image credit: Kosher OC Magazine.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

While 7,838 tech jobs were lost across 120 companies in 2022, according to an analysis by Tech12 , the demand for engineers remained high with 13,100 open engineering roles. billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures. Israeli venture funding dropped 40% compared to 2021, from $28.7

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria. The rigorous, continual customer discovery process demands fortitude, students say. Would the product be considered essential, a must-have? Or just “nice to have?”

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VC Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Overall, Tel Aviv went down one spot from 2019 but faired relatively well: Tel Aviv ranked as #6 Startup Ecosystem Globally Israel’s regional sub-sector strengths include AI, Big Data & Analytics and Cybersecurity The National pre-seed fund and Density of Startups & R&D hubs are cited as reasons a startup should move to Tel Aviv.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 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. ISRAEL 2010 GDP GROWTH WELL ABOVE OECD AVERAGE. Israel’s GDP rose 4.5% for the year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Many business leaders fail to slow down and pause long enough to thoughtfully consider the best possible path forward because they feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work on their plates and the demand to get rapid results at all costs. Sometimes repeatedly. And often at great cost. Decision-making suffers.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2010

A s every month, VC Ca fe 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. Domestic demand in Israel leaped 8.7 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. demandrichard : Richard Rosenblatt is the co-founder and CEO of Demand Media. Michels : Oren Michels, CEO of Mashery, offers insight into API management, services, and more.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This mind-boggling number implies strong demand growth and demonstrates how engaged the userbase is. The greater professionalism demanded to shine in the creative world has meant greater hunger for the tools Lightricks offers as a way to stand out. Across all of their apps, Lightricks has in excess of 500 million downloads. .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria. The rigorous, continual customer discovery process demands fortitude, students say. Would the product be considered essential, a must-have? Or just “nice to have?”

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2011

It’s in this environment that Tel Aviv, Israel-based video technology company Giraffic is hoping to thrive in. Already, there are over 2 billion daily views in YouTube alone, while online movie service Netflix accounts for over 30-percent of total Internet bandwidth in the United States during peak hours.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. SaaS remains one of the top categories for funding in Europe and Israel with $6.1B

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2014

Digital media is a recent phenomenon in Israel. For example, in January satellite TV operator YES introduced their yesGo product, allowing subscribers to watch live TV channels and video-on-demand for free. Israelis Value Online Media 1.5x More Than Offline Media- Highest in Global Survey.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 22, 2013

Because in Israel the reality of demographics is catching up with those who previously believed that wishful thinking makes for sound public policy. It’s hard to distill into a sound bite what’s going on in Israel and the West Bank. It’s different this time.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

The US and China are in the lead, but Israel has certainly earned itself a place as one of the leading centers of excellence in the global AI ecosystem with companies like AI21 Labs, which is developing a large language model Jurassic, which can be considered as an alternative to GPT. The talent pool for AI startups in Israel is deep.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 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. GE CHOOSES ISRAEL’S KINROT VENTURES TO JOINTLY DEVELOP NEW WATER TECHNOLOGIES.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

The keynote was given by Zvi Eckstein, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel , on “Israel present and future”. First, here are some of the key takeaways: Israel’s high-dependence on high-tech industry. The employment rate in Israel, not the unemployment rate, needs to go up. Zvi is impressive.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. Image Credit: Keval Baxi.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel. As you can imagine, Israeli customers pretty demanding, which makes face to face customers a hard channel, but one we can learn a lot from. VC Cafe: Many Israeli startups find themselves starting in Israel and later relocating.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel. As you can imagine, Israeli customers pretty demanding, which makes face to face customers a hard channel, but one we can learn a lot from. VC Cafe: Many Israeli startups find themselves starting in Israel and later relocating.

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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). Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greater efficiencies are really needed in this sector to deal with a growing demand and a wider consumption base. Qwilt has offices in Hod Hasharon, Israel and Redwood City, California. Video currently represents about 40% of all online traffic, growing by 400% by the year 2015. What does Qwilt mean for the consumer?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Several Israeli companies are in the forefront of these technologies, developing products that will be in demand in the future. Watch the video: Time to Know – a very promising startup based in Israel, Time to Know is developing the next generation class room technology. Watch the videos.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

Zend was started in 1999 and is currently headquartered in Cupertino, CA with an R&D office in Israel. Viola Private Equity recognized the increasing demand for both growth capital and buyout, which require strong equity commitment and help with leadership that will take companies out of a stale-mode and towards an exit.

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David Teten

MARCH 13, 2015

Developers and designers are in especially high demand, but our portfolio companies are also hiring in sales, marketing, operations, accounting, business development, security, media, customer service, recruiting, engineering, and QA. Present on campus as a guest speaker. We welcome new ideas on how to work with the university community.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

at the College of Management in Israel and has been accepted as an Advocate by the Israeli Bar Association. On Yavin is the founder and CEO of Exactive Marketing LTD. Yavin has more then 15 years of experience in general management, business development and marketing. He completed his law degree (L.L.B)

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

M otorola completed the previously announced acquisition of Israel’s BitBand , provider of cross platform video content delivery network (CDN) solutions, specializing in video on demand for IPTV. Motorola Buys BitBand. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. NTT Docomo wants TuneWiki to power Karaoke on Japan’s Mobiles.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand.

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