Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China.

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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. NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). The first came from the CEO of iScraper telling me that they would not be able to complete the deal – their investor, Apax Partners, had decided not to proceed despite verbal assurances that they would.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? People are voting with their feet.).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Startups range from award-winning data software Druva to telecommunication hardware Swipe. Tel Aviv, Israel?. Pune, India?.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

Legendary tech entrepreneurs, startup celebrities, and even the creators of Twitter itself are on the service. gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. plibin : Find out what Evernote CEO Phil Libin has to say about startups, tech, and of course, taking notes.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. As Vintage Venture Partners put it in a recent presentation shared in Tel Aviv , 2022 started off well but fell of a cliff in the second half (the slides were shared on Twitter by Amitai Ziv from Tech 12 ).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

This is the exact problem that Tal Weiss and his co-founders at Takipi faced a few years ago after selling their startup VisualTao to Autodesk. Lightspeed is excited to announce that we are leading Takipi’s $15M Series B financing to help the company accelerate investments in sales, marketing and R&D. It took over 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”. Thank you, John.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm. Apax Partners became one of the most successful private equity firms in the world, and Cohen became a billionaire. He was born in 1946 to a working class immigrant family in London and attended a State school.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

VC investors rely heavily on referrals, but what should a non US startup do when looking to raise funding in Silicon Valley? I found a question on Quora that relates to European startups, but found that some of the advice may be very relevant to Israeli startups as well. Read Venture Hacks ( [link] ). And then read it again.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

With six first investment deals Evergreen Venture Partners was the most active VC fund in Israel in 2010, according to the latest IVC Research Center report. The second place was shared by Battery Ventures Israel and Pontifax, with five investments each. Overall, 75 first investments were made in Israeli startups in 2010.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale. That’s the good news. We think so. Pack Your Bags Early.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Wanova , the Israeli corporate cloud services provider, has announced the completion of its round B financing totaling $10 million. The round was led entirely by previous backers: the Israeli offices of Greylock Partners and Carmel Ventures , as well as US fund Opus Capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

It turns out that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; s mall businesses , scalable startups , large companies and social entrepreneurs. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. Scalable Startup Entrepreneurship.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Israeli Startups Funding Rounds. C eleno Communications, developer of Wi-Fi chips for high-definition multimedia and entertainment home networking applications, has raised $12 million in a financing round. Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Below is a round up of noteworthy Israeli startup headlines. Tip VC Cafe and get your startup on the map by filling the form: [link]. California-based Gigya , an Israeli startup developing social tools for websites, quietly raises $6 million according to a regulatory filing. Israeli startup SohoOS launches an About.me

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” .

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

A few weeks ago we covered 6scan as part of the first graduating class of VentureGeeks , an Israeli startup incubator. The traction paid off as now the company announced the closure of its first financing round. Nitzan Miron, CEO, served at the National Center for Information Protection in Israel.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities. New Global Markets.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

V enture capital funding of Israel companies opened strongly in Q1 2010, with 55 deals completed since January 1oth 2o1o, according to Capital IQ. LucidLogix raised an $8 million round from Genesis Partners, Giza Venture Capital, and Rho Capital Partners for futher R&D and faster penetration of LucidLogix’s gaming graphics chip.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 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. ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. For previous editions, click here.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

You need close partners in that journey and you get many sorts of partners - investors, employees etc. - They were both about to found a different startup, so I didn’t need to convince them to found a company – I just needed to convince them to join mine! but you need someone who’s into the cause and all in with you.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. Syte has partners such as Microsoft, SAP, and resellers in Japan who function as outsourced BDRs. Build your sales organization, or your startup with unrelated mission. You should too!

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mporat.tumblr.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Venturing from Israel. Principal at Genesis Partners, an early-stage Israeli VC. How Much Seed Financing Should You Raise? How Much Seed Financing Should You Raise? So you should seek them out and talk to them - talk to VP R&Ds and CTOs of leading startups - they are usually relatively accessible.    .

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

Using the Lean Startup methodology, I created a quick landing page but was stuck searching for a unique name for the company. Coupled with my love of finance, I merged the two words, Jellyfish + Finance, and created Jellifin. Coupled with my love of finance, I merged the two words, Jellyfish + Finance, and created Jellifin.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

I first met Evangelos Simoudis when he ran IBM’s Business Intelligence Solutions Division and then as CEO of his first startup Customer Analytics. Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. Venture capital firms, as we know them only date back to the 1970s.)

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I think the same goes for startup entrepreneurialism. Don recommends: Don’t just do startups “for us”. Avoid being labeled as startup from a “special group” program. I used to joke I was always “integrating” startup socials (forgive me for not giving Asian people their due credit as being minorities).

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. Siraj Capital.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Let’s talk about your financing strategy. The reason I mention this is that our fundraising strategy involves first and foremost choosing partners who are human beings that we’d like to join us on our journey. You can change lives through the combination of technology and finance. Sometimes, a bottom-up approach is the only way.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. I can name Tescom and Tesnet in Israel. Alon: Well.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

Scaling up is becoming a hot topic lately, from non-profit Endeavor and the World Economic Forum focusing attention on the importance of scaling up companies in the Global Scale Up Declaration to The Economist pointing out that Israel''s miraculous start up economy is seeking to transition from "Start Up" to "Scale Up". >$100 million.

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