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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

But in sheer numbers, they are infinitely more representative of “entrepreneurship&# than entrepreneurs in other categories—and their enterprises create local jobs. After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. 1) They sure killed a ton of trees. Who’s an entrepreneur?

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

Most tech CEOs tend to understand the power of Twitter, and as such, this is the most popular category. gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. Check out our list of more than 100 CEOs on Twitter, and be sure to let us know if there are any that we missed!

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State of Israeli tech ecosystem 2022 and what to expect in 2023

VC Cafe

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. 2022 is behind us now and the end of year reports are trickling in.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Another three or four return the original investment, and one or two produce substantial returns. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Deutschland.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

A s every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.