View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).

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Programming St. Louis Cofounder India 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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Cofounder Technical Review Social Media PR 239

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

Over the past few years, there has been an incredible revolution in the way that software applications are built and run. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. This is the exact problem that Tal Weiss and his co-founders at Takipi faced a few years ago after selling their startup VisualTao to Autodesk.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cofounder Cloud Distribution 60

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. If I’m missing any, please contact me.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. Me and my cofounders Joanna Socha and Mariusz Lusiak just got into Y Combinator. What are you currently involved with?

San Francisco 136

San Francisco Cofounder Founder Poland 136

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Israel Minister: No Change to Egypt Deal Israels foreign minister said Israel would not agree to re-evaluate its peace deal with Egypt.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative.” — Reed Hastings , co-chief executive of Netflix Inc., Enterprise software – what are the new needs of companies who support remote work? how do companies adjust to remote hiring/cybersecurity/collaboration software etc?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster , an Israeli company headquartered in New York, develops several media-rich advertising formats (see examples here and here ) and interactive ad features , as well as MediaMind , campaign management software for agencies and online advertisers. percent) and co-founder Osfer Zadikario (6.2 percent of the company.

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IPO SEC Initial Public Offering Stock 68

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

4- Description of our software. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name.

Naming 87

Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 87

Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. With this milestone, Europe has clearly established itself as a key center for software innovation in the world. SaaS remains one of the top categories for funding in Europe and Israel with $6.1B

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Valuation 71

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Cracking the Code

JULY 12, 2019

-This article was co-authored with my colleague Maxim Filippov and published initially on Tech.eu. Nominations are now open for the 2019 Accel Euroscape, the annual list of the top 100 cloud companies originating from Europe & Israel. You can apply HERE – applications will be open until 6 th September 2019.

Europe 48

Europe Romania Cloud 48

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. Debra and I recently went to Israel for the first time and we found it to be very similar?—?because where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in

Founder 51

Founder Cofounder Software Review San Francisco 51

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The first time I met Matan, Melio's co-founder and CEO, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small business stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. We’d then manually update the accounting software. What advice would you give on choosing co-founders?

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B2B Cofounder Small Business 62

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. So my focus has been on taking our research software and courses to the next level. Good Lord, no.

Czech Republic 113

Czech Republic San Francisco Campaign Washington 113

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. Findings were presented at SaaStock 2016- Software is eating the world, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is eating software.

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Vertical 48

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Nitzan Miron, CEO, served at the National Center for Information Protection in Israel. Yoav Leitersdorf will join co-founders Nitzan Miron and Yaron Tal on the board of directors. This is the 5th investment for YL Ventures , who focuses narrowly on Israeli software startups.

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Stealth eCommerce Incubator 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Dick Kramlich and Yoram Tietz at E&Y's Journey conference, Israel, Nov 2011. Dick Kramlich is an old school businessman who has been active in venture capital since 1969 with Arthur Rock and Co. Y – Stats show that in Israel, in all exits over $50 million and above, 82% of the time the CEO was the founder.

China 87

China IP Singapore 87

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

As the company today announces its $57m Series C round led by Accel, I sat down with Gloat’s co-founder and CEO Ben Reuveni to discuss what inspired him to set off on this entrepreneurial journey, how he has seen approaches to talent change in light of COVID-19 and much more… ? And that made the decision for me.

Algorithm 62

Algorithm Agile Cofounder Cloud 62

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product.

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. Do you have any key partnerships with ISPs or enterprise software houses? I can name Tescom and Tesnet in Israel. VC Cafe: What advice do you have for early stage entrepreneurs coming out of Israel? Alon: a lot :). Alon: Well.

Cloud 106

Cloud North America EC2 106

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A VG, one of the largest American PC anti virus software makers with 110 million subscribers worldwide, has acquired Israeli startup DroidSecurity , maker of anti virus software for Android phones, for an estimated amount of $4.1 It has five employees in Israel. million (plus $5.3

Security 84

Security Cofounder Mobile 84

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A VG, one of the largest American PC anti virus software makers with 110 million subscribers worldwide, has acquired Israeli startup DroidSecurity , maker of anti virus software for Android phones, for an estimated amount of $4.1 It has five employees in Israel. million (plus $5.3

Security 84

Security Cofounder Mobile 84

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A VG, one of the largest American PC anti virus software makers with 110 million subscribers worldwide, has acquired Israeli startup DroidSecurity , maker of anti virus software for Android phones, for an estimated amount of $4.1 It has five employees in Israel. million (plus $5.3

Security 84

Security Cofounder Mobile 84

VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2010

Israel-based eToro offers social “trading arenas” for foreign exchange (FOREX), commodities and indices in a fun and social way. The tools offered on the site could easily compete with professional investment software in a family office or a small trading desk. T radonomi, the parent company behind eToro has completed a $2.4

Cyprus 80

Cyprus Australia Cofounder 80

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Chicago-based InterCall buys Unisfair , Israel’s virtual conference tool, for $35 million. Perhaps this is how we’ll start solving co-existence in Israel? Footbo raises $2.5

Venture Capital 87

Venture Capital Startup Denmark 87

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. VC Cafe: You are co-CEOs.

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# The secret to the software sales process. At the end, don’t miss these great short discussions….

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

You can find some of the monthly ones in the following: Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010 Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010 Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 (..)

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378