Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ).

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BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Despite the war, Israels technology industry presented record figures for mergers and acquisitions according to a new report from Vintage Investment Partners. Microsoft launched co-pilot vision , a tool that read your screen and act as a personal helper (US-only). Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. In a way I think this is part of the magic of Israel. I fund both types all the time.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2024

In Israel, the week’s news was mostly focused on the expectation from an impending attack by Iran and its proxies. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. tech #Israel #venturecapital #innovation #startups #founders Answer – the lady with the blue background is real.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. In the community, I have played many leadership roles. Before Imalac, Noreen began her professional career in the ?eld

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel? VC Cafe: The common case in Israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. VC Cafe: There’s a rise in community led startups.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. If you think I’ve missed any, please contact me. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Based in Israel, Outbrain has been around since 2006 solely focuses on solving the content discovery problem for publishers. billion Unique Visitors, on 3 million discussion communities. About Guest Author: Garrett Gan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Thalamus , the largest research database of advertising vendors in the world.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Best Way To Communicate With And Convert Your Website Visitors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Ben is the Chief Executive Olarker (CEO) and co-founder of Olark Live Chat. Real-time communication. He's the chief executive o Larker and co-founder of O LA Live Chat.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

When it comes to caliber and depth Quora , the fast-growing Q&A site started by a former Facebook Co-founder, delivers. I asked a simple question: “ What are the top startups in Israel 2010? Both in terms of product, potential for exit and viral growth&# and aggregated the community answers.

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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. The founders have started companies before.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. VC Cafe: In my experience, a lot of secular Jews stay away from religion because they don’t know exactly how to engage with it or because they feel ‘excluded’ from the religious community.

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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. The CEO also has the ability to shape how the company serves its communities. The event was held at the Jewish Contemporary Museum.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, Tout.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

After graduating from University, he joined McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm. For example, the Acumen Fund has invested in a solar energy project in India that is providing clean energy to rural communities.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2013

2013 has been quite a year for the startup community and social and technology-related businesses in particular. Founders, executives and decision makers don’t have time to consistently create quality content and then properly distribute it. John Hall , Influence & Co. . Ben Lang , Mapped In Israel. .

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

“We take a very board view of what make a difference can mean, because we believe ‘doing good’ should go mainstream and sustainability should be an integral part of every business,” explains Rachel Chan, Convenor of the MaD Venture Fellows Programme and Founder and Chief Catalyst of InnoFoco.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

OpenAI co-founder and former CTO, Ilya Sutskever and his new SSI Inc. OpenAI co-founder and former CTO, Ilya Sutskever and his new SSI Inc. The company plans to have only 2 offices for now – Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, so many AI engineers are polishing their CVs in Israel. billion compared to $6.7

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. billion, a 2.5x

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

At their heart, seed accelerators are defined length programs (usually 3 months) where early stage startups are provided seed capital, mentorship, co-working space (though not always) and other services in the hope of removing the barriers to startup success… or failure. Maybe it’s time to address that idea before we move on.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. I can name Tescom and Tesnet in Israel. We plan to invest this in R&D and the continued development of tools that will enhance the JMeter and load testing community. How are you planning to sell Blazemeter? Alon: a lot :). Alon: Well.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

DemoTunes is proposed to be a LinkedIn of the music industry where a million plus musicians would be uploading music, getting feedback from their community, as well as, and more importantly, from talent scouts and connoisseurs who can help them further their careers. In principle, this sounds great. I love the idea. Hope to see you there!

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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. eToro is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in NY, Australia and Cyprus. The company has 120 employees and is led by co-founder and CEO Jonathan Assia and his brother Ronen.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I met a founder who’s sister was kidnapped (and later released). powered AI Co-Scientist multi-agent system to aid researchers. We have a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. Every train station has been plastered with stickers, commemorating the many victims, the majority of them young.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I srael-based Pursway (formerly known as Datanetis) announced its series A of $6 million led by Battery Ventures office in Israel. This is Battery’s first deal done in its expanded capacity in Israel since Scott Tobin and David Sokolic moved over to expand the investment team.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2024

billion raise (at $157 billion valuation), despite the senior departures of co-founder Mira Murati and the former head of research. As OpenAI ironically becomes ‘closed’ (and for profit) NVIDIA announced an open-source GPT-4 rival, Microsoft unveiled co-pilot vision and a number of other AI additions to Windows.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Perhaps it means that Israel is missing the consumer Internet boat ( Mike Eisenberg gave his hypothesis in the Hummus manifesto on why that may be in three parts) or that they aren’t doing enough business in Europe. Best Startup Founder / Co-Founders 2010. Best Advertising, Marketing or Media Startup 2010.

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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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Perhaps it means that Israel is missing the consumer Internet boat ( Mike Eisenberg gave his hypothesis in the Hummus manifesto on why that may be in three parts) or that they aren’t doing enough business in Europe. Best Startup Founder / Co-Founders 2010. Best Advertising, Marketing or Media Startup 2010.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Perhaps it means that Israel is missing the consumer Internet boat ( Mike Eisenberg gave his hypothesis in the Hummus manifesto on why that may be in three parts) or that they aren’t doing enough business in Europe. Best Startup Founder / Co-Founders 2010. Best Advertising, Marketing or Media Startup 2010.

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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.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

And without sounding too schmaltzy, we’re grateful for the wisdom of many of the Israel ‘advocates’ in the UK who helped make our dreams of traveling with our company a reality. The Israeli startup community is: “Pashut Magniv” (simply spectacular). For me, this is the magic of Israel. The secret of Israel.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, the company’s community-based model showed strong resilience while the importance of its culture and values shone through. Today, more than 90 million BlaBlaCar community members travel by carpool of long-distance buses across 22 markets. How did you go from VC to founder?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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., and Verizon Communications Inc. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. For Twitter Founder, Its Hip to Be Square Inc. 12 hrs ago.

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