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Turn Static Web Content To Dynamic Video With Wibbitz

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Startup Intelligence caught up with co-founders Zohar Dayan (CEO) and Yotam Cohen (VP Business Development) to find out more. Wibbitz was started in response to what its founders observed as a change in the way people consume content on the web today. Co-founders Zohar and Yotam are both business graduates from IDC Herzliya.

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Five Questions with Mark Gerson

VC Cafe

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. Consequently, we concentrate around 80% of our giving in two organizations that I co-founded and Chair — African Mission Healthcare and United Hatzalah. That’s impact. Please join us!

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

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

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation. See a sample reprint in PDF format.

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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

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. -Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The average revenue multiple is now 17x+, close to 10 times higher than during the 2008 crisis! In 2020, Europe and Israel minted seven new unicorns, taking the total number to 25.

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