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Deal Hunting On The Move With Shooger

YoungUpstarts

Shooger is a free, community-driven web and mobile deal-hunting application that gives users the ability to find and share deals instantly with other Shooger users. You can follow real people and their real deals – It’s a great big mobile reality show that saves you money.”. Then again, just maybe. A Sweet Deal.

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

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Shouldn’t our access to technology and scale lead to lower rates than say Bulgaria? The same companies operate there and here. financial system does not operate as a perfect competition – in fact, it is far from it. If you look at the graph below, U.S. fees can be as much as 4.5X Checking Account Competition.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Founded in 2007 by Ron Makavy, Micha Berdichevsky, and Barak Naveh, Snaptu raised a total of $9 million in three rounds: $3 million from Carmel Ventures, $5 million a year ago (March 2010) from Sequoia and $1 million from private investors, including Spotlab, an angel fund operated by former Israeli MP Neomi Blumental. source: [link].

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

In this time, as I said previously, we are looking to improve the valuations of our companies and get them ready for either a VC investment round (and an equity buy-out for us), or a strategic acquisition, such as Google’s acquisition of LabPixies back in April after 2 years of operating with just Angel capital. Janvest: Yes.