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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Israeli startups deliver #NoMatterWhat I’ve started VC Cafe in December of 2004. Fast forward to mid 2020, at the peak of Covid. The list goes on and on.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male.

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7 Tips For Building Millennials Into Next-Gen Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Today they are in every business, and will likely comprise 50 percent of the workforce by 2020. Their success is now vital to our success. Nurture a realistic optimism for overcoming obstacles.

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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Medicine is global, and as we see right now, global health is just as vital as personal health. Here are a few of favorite medical bloggers of 2020: The Nerdy Nurse – The Nerdy Nurse blog has been going for just over ten years and is a multi-award-winning blog run by a registered and licensed nurse, Brittney Wilson.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

So, in August of 2020, I and a mostly menopausal team of experts turned my plant-based gluten-free recipe into delicious and nutritious female formulated energy bars that help women navigate the menopause years with confidence and ease. From this, Urtasker was born. Thanks to Omer Riaz, Urtasker.com ! #25- 25- Got the idea from a friend.

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How To Mentor Millennials Into Business Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Today they are in every business, and will likely comprise 50 percent of the workforce by 2020. Their success is now vital to our success. Nurture a realistic optimism for overcoming obstacles.

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Startup venture and alumni funds

VC Cafe

Shopify Sustainability Fund (founded 2004) – with a market cap of $73 billion, publicly traded Shopify launched a $5 million annual fund to invest in environmental technology fighting climate change. Notably missing from this list are Unity , Bytedance , Spotify and several other global unicorns.