VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

In the US alone, startups raised $330 billion. US: $330 billion ??China: Shortage of talent – Israel is a country of 9 million people, and according to a recent report by the Israel Innovation Authority, only about 334,000, about 9.8% This is primarily the case for the US. China: $104.4 India: $42 billion ??

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

They were a movement in England during the Industrial Revolution who had the objective of ruining machinery that was used to build products at scale. They thought factories were a threat to custom assembly of products and ultimately to the agrarian way of life (as more people were moving to urban environments).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. Want to start up in France?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I talk about failure a lot because I think it can be tremendously instructive and I think that success without failure often masks underlying lessons. In my experience the US loves the narrative of the come back. I say this as somebody who has lived in 6 countries and worked in 9 — having lived abroad for 11 years of my work life.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2018

A global accelerator program is taking applications from any startup offering innovative solutions to multiple product and service challenges. Each team will receive: The chance to trial their product in a ready-made international market. About Drive with Belron. Three of the startups have also received direct investment so far.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. The problem is that most people in this situation know they are stuck in the position and never try to change or to do anything about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

One of its platforms, Jivy Inside, will run as the casual games site for TF1 in France. Founded in 2007, PredictAd’s product puts an emphasis on monetization, by showing contextual ads on the autocomplete drop-down in the search box – this old Mashable post by Ayelet Noff tells their story. Miscellanous.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

But I am attracted to those who have had severe set-backs in life because it tells you something about the mettle of the person with whom you’re dealing. But I’ve been thinking a lot about failure in the past year or so. ” “Did you read that article about him on Business Insider?”

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2018

According to Lexington Law , in 2018, Millennials in America had an average expenditure of $47,112 and they pumped $600 billion into the US economy. So what do Millennials care more about than the hippest of avocado toasts and the trendiest of designer shoes? That number is only expected to grow, surpassing one trillion USD by 2020.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

One of the biggest problems facing any entrepreneur is how to convince people that your idea, product or service is as great as you personally believe it to be. The best thing about awards, however, is what happens after. So, how you should you set about on your path to becoming an award-winning business?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Implementing this strategy and activities in the workplace could increase the productivity of your employees and work together as a team towards the common goal for the company. 08:53] Talking about mental health and even working at home because of COVID, how big a crisis do you think we’re dealing with in the workplace? [13:28]

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. He downs cold ones with the head of biz dev.

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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. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them. How to improve international communication about space debris to avoid costly and dangerous collisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I think about it for months, often years. I talk to trusted sources about it. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. I’m talking about the hard fought battle. The fact that I lost when I should have won.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

For many SMEs, the rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce – tipped to be worth US$2 trillion this year in the B2C space alone [1] – makes the opportunity too valuable to ignore. You’d join in with what was going on around you, chat to people and let them know what you do, so they know about you when they need your service.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I think about it for months, often years. I talk to trusted sources about it. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. I’m talking about the hard fought battle. The fact that I lost when I should have won.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. We didnt think wed able to compete with that.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. It cost us exactly $0.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, we thought that was fitting as we try to tailor our products to some very specific niches, like sports, pets, health-conscious individuals, and so forth. But when we chose that business name we went about it completely backwards. The sitter is a woman who clearly cares about home decor. 7- Renamed the original name.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Time will tell.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP). I love this saying and what it implies and I use it often. I Love Scrappy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I’ve had a post in my head for months – maybe longer – about the role of a CEO. I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Run great meetings (don’t be a productivity drain on the company). This breaks Matt’s rule about not being a bottleneck.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is a fun look at what logos would say if they truly reflected the experience on those sites or with those products. Design is Product, Product is Design - [link].

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. It’s critical to establish this component of your business before thinking seriously about growth. from France.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. The goal of iterative development is to give us guard rails so we dont veer off to either extreme. you can be incredibly scientific.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

We’d heard facts about the Israeli ecosystem: more startups per capita than anywhere in the world, more exits per capita, more patents per capita, more scientists per capita. Every third or fourth sentence was about being ‘happy’ to intro me into X, Y or Z. The first two were prohibitive due to timezone difficulties. The future.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2020

Since 2018, we have come up with different innovative products and solutions. Tell us more about KaviAR Gate. With the use of 360-degree videos and photos, we are able to offer this incredible travel discovery experience. KaviAR: KaviAR Tech is passionate about AR, and believes that AR is the web of tomorrow.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

for about $158.1 US-ISRAELI R&D FOUNDATION TO INVEST IN $8 MLN IN 9 NEW PROJECTS. The BIRD Foundation promotes collaboration between Israeli and American companies in various technological fields for the purpose of joint product development. .” – Bob Stanzione, ARRIS Chairman & CEO. million in cash.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

At the same time we have several culturally-driven attitudes holding us back. The first thing any American notices when coming to Amsterdam is that unlike Germany and France, everyone speaks English. Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. Let us know in the comments section, where members of the Institute will respond. Crunch with us.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. In France, the decline was – 4% [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

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. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them. How to improve international communication about space debris to avoid costly and dangerous collisions.

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