RT @JasonCalacanis: What to do if your startup is about to fail

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, has some good advice to CEOs who are struggling to keep their start ups afloat.  Rather than keeping a blog, he sends a weekly-ish newsletter – sign up here to get his updates.  I have included his latest post below.  As reference, he is also offering to come in [...]

Securing Funding from International VCs

There is no magic formula to secure funding from any VC, let alone one that is not in your home country. It’s almost like finding a relationship – if you’re lucky, you will find the partner of your dreams, but there’s going to be a lot of due diligence before you commit to anything serious.
I [...]

MyHeritage vs. Mylife: The People Search Battle Heats Up

In 2007, when vertical search was hotter than Twitter, people search was the cherry to pick. Indeed, many tried.  Spock  Spokeo, Wink, Peekyou, Pipl.com and in some ways, Israel’s own Delver, to name a few. Now the people search vertical is heating up again with the recent launch of two products: MyHeritage genealogy search and Mylife.com.
People [...]

LBS Calls for London Entrepreneurs

The London Business School Entrepreneurship Club is organising a networking event mid-March for current MBA and Executive MBA students to meet entrepreneurs. The aim of this event is networking and knowledge-sharing between people who are thinking of starting their own company and those who already have experience in doing so.
Details of the event are as [...]

Product Case Study: BloggersBase

As the volume of user generated content grows, discovering quality content is becoming harder and harder. Just think about how much crap you read in blogs for the one link you feel is note worthy, or these days, Twitter worthy. BloggersBase is looking to solve the problem through a competition-based discovery platform that rewards bloggers [...]

iFog – The top 20 iPhone Application Made in Israel

Barack Ben Ezer, a former Microsoft employee, has delivered what seems to be the top Israeli iPhone app. After seven years in the cellular section of Microsoft, Barack and his good friend Tommy Sheinfeld have started MyApParty, and developed a unique application for iPhone – The iFog.

The iFog application turns the iPhone into a window like [...]

Biteseize Monday: 10 Links I Caught on Twitter (Feb 22)

Happy Monday everyone.  Below is a short list of links that caught my attention on the week ending on February 22 2009:
1. Hulu no longer plays on Boxee-  It turns out that CBS decided that it wants to keep total control of who watches its content. As a result, Hulu writes on its blog: “Our [...]

GSMA 2009 Wrap-Up: Winners and Losers

The World Mobile Congress 2009 wrapped up in Barcelona this week. Despite the relatively low expectations given the world economic recession, GSMA 2009 set the tone for an exciting year in mobile developments.

Israeli start ups: Despite a terrible location in the basement, Israeli start ups had a strong showing with more than 46 companies in attendance.  The [...]

Overcoming a hack attack

You may have noticed that VC Cafe has been down temporarily in the last few days. After long discussions with my hosting company and many attempts to reveal the source of the problem, it turned out that VC Cafe was hacked. As a result, all of your comments had to be deleted from the site [...]

Pitango tries to stop 3DV’s acquisition by Microsoft

Calcalist reports that Pitango is trying to stop the acquisition of 3DV systems by Microsoft, which is currently being ‘cooked’ by Kleiner Perkins. Pitango claims that the bid put forth by Microsoft (approximately $35 million) is too low and that Kleiner is simply trying to cash out on its investment in 3DV, even for a loss. 
3DV [...]

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