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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Israeli Government Reveals High Tech “Bail Out” Plan to Boost the Technology Sector

VC Cafe

T he birth of the Israeli venture capital industry was supported by government programs like Yozma. The proposal will enable investors in startups to receive tax write-offs on investments for high-tech companies who spend at least 70% of their salaries in Israel. Today, most of the LPs for Israeli funds are foreign investors.

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How Can Israeli Startups Raise Funding in Silicon Valley?

VC Cafe

My key takeaways from talking to roughly 40 institutional investors in the valley about investing to an European startup are: Traction cures all ills. If you can really demonstrate up and to the right path and consistently deliver on your promises, the funding will find you. Read Venture Hacks ( [link] ).

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

“This is part of a process taking place in the world in the past decade,” writes TechForGood CEO Omri Boral, “in which the approach of organizations, investors and countries towards social and environmental issues is changing from seeing them as a problem to becoming an opportunity.”. Cohen asks.