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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. He introduced me to a senior guy from the “network solutions&# practice, a Dutchman named Valentijn Bonger.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). BlaBlaCar (France): INSEAD.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. uTest has established itself as the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services, with over 25,000 testers in over 160 countries.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

Before answering this, let’s take a look at what happened in the global software and cloud market over the last year. Global market snapshot The world now has 10 software and cloud giants worth more than $100B, representing $4.1T in other major hubs (France, UK, Germany). of market capitalization. What’s next?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. With all of those companies gobbled up the market is now focused on the next generation startups like TasteMade, MiTu Network, StyleHaul and so forth.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

“Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. Software is by far the most sought-after class, with 94% of VCs investing in it.