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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

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Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product.

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The Long Haul Of Building A Venture Capital Firm

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” Yet, this topic has become increasingly interesting in a world where tech startups are mainstream, Shark Tank is popular nationwide, where Y Combinator has opened Demo Day to more and more investors, where new funds sprout up every year, more and more. and Didi, Qunar, and countless others in China.

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BillGuard – Fends Off VCs in $10M Series B Round

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Investors include bigtime funds like Khosla Ventures , Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund , Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors; previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners and IA Ventures also contributed to this round. Billguard claims to have saved its users over $500,000 in its first 6 months of operation.

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Huge Round for Waze, Raises $25 Million for Social GPS

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The proceeds of this round will be used to scale operations, continue building its platform for real-time location data and move its headquarters from Israel to Palo Alto, California, according to the CEO’s post on the company blog, By The Waze. In 2010, Waze has been experiencing significant growth, most recently reaching 2.2

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Live Stream from the TWS 2010 Conference, 10 Startup Finalists and 2 Winners

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If you’re reading this on Monday the 18th, tune in to the live stream of the conference at [link] and watch the demos of the 10 startups that were chosen amongst dozens of applicants. VSP partnered with Live Person and has been operating since 2006 as AEI Technology. Founded in 2008 by Ms. Emma Butin.

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10 lessons from Syte on building an inside sales machine to survive the crisis [guest post]

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In the beginning, the founders gave demos all day. Syte has partners such as Microsoft, SAP, and resellers in Japan who function as outsourced BDRs. At Syte, Gal built and trained the global sales team of enterprise AEs, Sales Engineers, Directors, SDRs, BDRs, Channels and Operations. Do you plan to land and expand?

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This story was written by Henn Idan and Yaniv Feldman , and was originally published in Hebrew by Newsgeek , the largest tech blog In Israel. . Xeround then looked to branch out, seeking to partner directly with other media companies within Israel, and AT&T in the United States.

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