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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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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.

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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. It’s likely that the investors don’t know you, so try and find warm intros from people in your network. Network and talk to people.