VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

As 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 , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The Israel/U.S.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Commercial – a data/tech/commercial partnership or client relationship.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The group diversity was beneficial because it enabled participants to share their first hand experiences of working at companies operating in different domains and at different phases of development. Group picture of the Battery Ventures Entrepreneurship workshop in Tel Aviv, 2010.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. . - Studying best practices of VCs in supporting portfolio company operational improvement.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

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 , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Venture Capital Matching 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Tech*if*er0*urs â?? Seed Startups.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). On question #1, we see good indicators that folks are leaving.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. Profiled initially. Target Selected.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) As Carlota Perez points out , (see Figure 1) technology revolutions happen every half-century or so.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

The question is whether you are born with innate entrepreneurial talent or whether you can be taught to operate like an entrepreneur. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jason Calacanis , founder of Mahlo.com, and Mark Suster of GRP Partners, have all weighed in on the nature side – you’re born being an entrepreneur or your not.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. We think so.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. » More. » More.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. They are indispensable and the foundation for success.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. We are technology agnostic with our focus on what will accomplish the client’s mission. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. How do you review documents in non-english languages, where structures can be quite different from what we are used to in the US?

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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. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? ” It’s worth noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is about half of the U.S. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement. Bill Gurley : Fair enough.

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