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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) Any government that starts public financing entrepreneurship better have a plan to get out of it by building a private VC industry. lesson of using SBIC funds.), but then the government got out of the way.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (4/11) – Resiliency

Both Sides of the Table

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). The deal terms were agreed, the combined business plans were prepared and both sets of investors had verbally agreed to do the deal. iScraper Israel shut down and another UK competitor took on their UK assets).

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Battery gives back to Israeli entrepreneurial community with venture creation workshop

VC Cafe

We opened each case study discussion with an analysis of the venture in question using the People, Opportunity, Context and Deals (POCD) model outlined in the Harvard Business Review article ‘ Some Thoughts on Business Plans ’. By: Geoffrey Mugliston.

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Interning at Remagine Ventures (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

As a participant of Onward Israel , I had the incredible opportunity to intern in Tel Aviv and gain valuable experience over my two month stay. After spending just two months in the industry, I recognize the importance of venture capital for spurring innovation, especially in Israel.

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Target Marketing: What Is It?

Up and Running

Identifying your target market is part of business planning—notice that it’s planning as an ongoing action not just writing a plan as a one-time event. Gathering information about your target market, like business planning, shouldn’t be an exercise you do once and then never revisit. and Israel.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

However, in October of last year the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs reported that risk averseness is now so extreme in Europe that the discrepancy in investment between USA and EU investors is massive: The numbers for VCs were even more astounding: apart from Israel, investments by EU VCs were only 10 percent of their US counterparts.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US. Targets selected” figure indicates number of business plans received. [v] v] Number of business plans received. Create opportunities, instead of waiting for opportunities to appear. Also published in Forbes.