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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

This start-up is headed by industry-leading professionals including its CEO and co-founder, Ido Susan, and Hillel Kobrinsky the CSO and co-founder. This company has received multiple awards, including Cyber Security Excellence Awards Winner for 2019, Cyber Defense Global Awards 2019 Winner, and SC 2019 Awards Finalist.

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5 Tips to Gain From People Who Don’t Think Like You

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as a business advisor, that’s probably the biggest hurdle to success encountered by every new business owner. I often recommend to technical entrepreneurs (logical) that they team with a cofounder who has a business perspective (emotional customer appeal). One of these without the other is a recipe for disaster.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Help Or Hurt Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

AI assistants in homes are great (Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa) – but to children, they might easily be considered co-parents or teachers. Your role in business is to manage the transition where humans and machines will productively co-exist to keep human customers satisfied. Individual biases must be excluded.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

David Teten

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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It’s the Company you keep

Eric Friedman

Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. And all in the heart of NYC!

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SXSW Startups: New Age Meats

Austin Startup

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company.