Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. While this it total FDI as opposed to just venture, it should give you an indication of the international trend. Baidu alone raised $3.2
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# In economics we call these “exogenous events&# and if they happen (Greek debt crisis, problems raising the US debt ceiling, trouble in Saudi Arabia) – you will not be shielded.
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Feld Thoughts
JULY 23, 2015
In December, 1985, Saudi Arabia flooded the market for oil and by the end of 1986 the price of a barrel of oil was around $10. My royalty checks had stopped, but fortunately I had started Feld Technologies and 1986 was the summer of 2430 Denmark in Garland, Texas. I didn’t work at Petcom that summer.
VC Cafe
MARCH 20, 2011
Unlike its normal ‘relocation’ of acquired companies to Palo Alto, Facebook plans to maintain Snaptu’s development office in Israel, which suggests that Facbeook is planning to start a development center in Israel (following the footsteps of many other large technology companies).
David Teten
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Many Israeli companies build technologies which could be very valuable to the broader Middle East region, particularly in water tech, agriculture technology, and cybersecurity. I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. I thought others might be interested in my list. Takwin Labs.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2020
The same thing happened with MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome 10 years later that occurred initially in Saudi Arabia and spread to a little offshoot into Korea. But the real cost could be as low as $10 or less if people take it to scale, do pooling, use some of the more innovative technologies.
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