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A Guide to Grow Your Tech Startup

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With so many startups facing a tough journey right from their inception, the pressing question becomes: How does one successfully navigate the tech industry? The key lies in having a groundbreaking idea and understanding the broader tech landscape and the forces shaping it. Focus on Customer Satisfaction Word of mouth travels fast.

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How and Where to Write About Technology in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Often, a business plan introduces a new technology that requires some explaining. On one hand, as a reader of business plans for investors, I see way too many business plans that ask a reader to wade neck-deep through technology to get to the business. Establish technology as a differentiator, when it is.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Commercial – a data/tech/commercial partnership or client relationship.

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Accelerating Aurora, Driving the Future

Reid Hoffman

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. Meanwhile, market pioneers in blitzscale-up mode are exactly the kind of company Reinvent aims to serve with its “venture capital at scale” strategy. This deal has been an unusual experience for me. The Road to AV.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA.