VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

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 Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tech world has seen a shift away from Silicon Valley, with Israel now dominating the world’s startup economy. Yet, it’s not all rosy in Israel’s tech sector since multinational tech companies have realized that they could benefit from the emerging talent there as well. A Looming Talent Shortage. Wage Inflation.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Designing a space that feels like home is key to making people feel comfortable collaborating at the office. Square Global Facilities Manager Maja Henderson says moving to a large office space that is designed to feel small promotes synergy. Design & Dev Entrepreneur How-To''s' What perks does your company offer at the office?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Mistakes Designers Make When Applying for Jobs – [link]. 20 New High-Quality Free Fonts for Use in Design Projects – [link].

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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. Israel’s index of leading economic indicators rose a preliminary 0.4%

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image to the left is an ad created by Yehoshua TBWA, Israel for betili. Hot Trends in iPhone Apps Design - [link]. Tips in Designing a Great Brochure - [link].

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. It’s difficult to hire and retain the top designers, engineers, data scientists, and QA professionals, and an organization’s sustained growth can be threatened by this block to growing engineering teams.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small business entrepreneurship is not designed for scale, the owners want to own their own business and “feed the family.&# Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

In this category there is a range of programs design to support founders and startups. Applications for various programs in Europe and Israel are open. Examples include: Google for startups live sessions – a series of streamed events designed to help founders survive and thrive during this period.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. While the Innovation Clusters designated specific areas of the countries where high tech was to occur, it’s the Technology Business incubators located inside these clusters where the startup companies physically reside.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. Put your users first: pretend that your customers have a seat at the table when you design your product roadmap. Need for Speed, indeed.

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Dev Days , for instance, ran its multi-day event in May — originally designed to take place in Washington state — on AltspaceVR , which functions like a city block, where people can gather and attend concerts and events. A holographic system that provides realistic 3D medical images.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

Since then, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of generative AI startups worldwide, as well as in Israel. Most operate in the application layer, and use APIs to power new automations and consumer experiences across various verticals and functions in the company: coding, copywriting, advertising and marketing, design, etc.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. For us, being specifically based in Israel, these were our four main advantages. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' Coworking space. Did your startup join an accelerator? What were your experiences like?

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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. These steps are vital to securing initial funding and attracting pilots, design partners, and customers. . What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The Israel Mobile Monetization Summit took place a few weeks ago and I went in with the intent of learning all I could about business models on mobile. How do you know when you’re designing a mobile app that’s going to make money? Apps Design & Dev Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion' How does your app compare?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. While the Innovation Clusters designated specific areas of the countries where high tech was to occur, it’s the Technology Business incubators located inside these clusters where the startup companies physically reside.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. Browse the headlines below for more news.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

As a participant of Onward Israel , I had the incredible opportunity to intern in Tel Aviv and gain valuable experience over my two month stay. After spending just two months in the industry, I recognize the importance of venture capital for spurring innovation, especially in Israel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

One of the first investments I did in computer vision was Osmo, a product designed to get children off of the couch and to stop starting into an iPad and instead get them using physical objects (and other people!) The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel.

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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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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Dubbed by Forbes as the most inventive city in the world due to its “patent intensity”, Eindhoven is a hotbed for hardware design and high-tech innovation. Tel Aviv, Israel?. Eindhoven, Netherlands. It has the highest density of startups in the world and 61 companies in NASDAQ.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It’s not hard to imagine what this could look like by using a simple idea generation exercise: Tech jobs: Developer + AI – coding autocomplete tools like Github’s copilo t or Israel’s Tabnine , AI for QA. Designer + AI – Text to 3D, text to image for designs, automated brand assets creation, etc.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

While the intention was to fully privatize the venture capital industry, the drought of funds in Israel spurred the need a ‘bail out’ of the high-tech sector, in the form of by public sector programs to resuscitate investments in high-tech companies and retain innovative start ups in the country.

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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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

Universities ; including the business, design and engineering schools in the Catholic University of Chile who are hard at work teaching and encouraging their students to think big and to start companies. Independent non profits such as the Innovation Forum , encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation in education.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Today Wix , the publicly traded website builder from Israel with a market cap of $13.2 Specific areas of focus include software and technology companies that sit at the intersection of online design and development, commerce and business management and AI and automation solutions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Earlier this week YL Ventures announced a 7-figure USD investment in Israel-based Seculert , a new non-intrusive Security-as-a-Service that comprehensively detects cyber threats affecting corporate networks. The bad news are that such a attacks are on the rise. The exact sum was not disclosed.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 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. MOODYS REITERATES “A1 – STABLE” RATING FOR ISRAEL.

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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. ISRAEL’S EVATURE WINS TRAVEL INNOVATION AWARD .

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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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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 energy was also fed by the crowd of prospective students — a motley, enthusiastic and clearly wicked smart group including engineering PhDs and computer science whiz kids, U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. Other countries, e.g. Turkey and Israel, have proliferated systems that have been used to win a war. This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

Google is a strong advocate of responsive design. Mashable named 2013 “The Year of Responsive Design” But is responsive web design actually the answer to boosting mobile conversions? The process of trying to buy something from a desktop design site with a smartphone can be summed up with one word – pain.

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 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. The IMF also predicted that unemployment in Israel will drop to 5.5 ISRAELI ECONOMY TO EXPAND 3.8

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Anecdotally, when I first installed the app I struggled to find colleagues from Israel or the UK, but that’s now changing rapidly. In our session we met about 50 people, got to hear many of them introduce themselves and want to make it a regular thing now ( Introvert friendly – much of social media is designed for extroverts.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact”. The Kairos Fellowship is designed to build the next generation of leaders in the field of technology, analytics, digital campaigning, and online organizing.”. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Google AI for Social Good. Kairos Fellows. “The

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