IMCandy: A Sweet Way to Monetize Your Video Content

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When it comes to video advertising, new contenders are popping out like mushrooms after the [...]

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Wrapping up the Israel Web Tour

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After a week packed with meetings, presentations, pitches and networking opportunities, the Israel Web Tour concluded on Friday after a great party at Slide. I believe that sharing is caring, so I thought I’d share with you my notes from the public [...]

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The chosen people: 15 startups to represent Israel in Silicon Valley

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Back in November, I posted a call for Israeli companies to apply to the Israel Web Tour, a week long trip to Silicon Valley organized by the California Israel Chamber of Commerce led by Shuly Galili. [...]

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First 2008 bitesize: Israeli tech and investment news 01/04/2008 | VC Cafe

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Happy belated 2008! After a week of vacation in sunny Miami, it’s good to be back on the saddle. Most of us are still caught up with a large inbox to clear after the break, [...]

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Wrapping the Israeli internet scene in 2007

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One of my favorite blogs in Hebrew, thecoils, has posted a comprehensive overview of the venture capital and M&A activity of Israeli companies and funds in 2007, as well as some predictions for 2008. For those who can’t read Hebrew, [...]

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VC Cafe Exclusive Interview with Yossi Maaravi - Founder & CEO of Sutree.com

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Earlier this week I had the chance to interview Joseph (Yossi) Maaravi, the founder and CEO of Sutree.com, a subsidiary of E-learning Knowledge Solutions Inc. Sutree is a great resource for content discovery: [...]

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Go Israel: Out of 8 stories on Techcrunch’s homepage, 5 are on Israel: AllofMe, SeeToo, Google Israel, eToro and SuTree

The front page at TechCrunch looks as if it was taken out of the Venture Capital Cafe today. Out of 8 posts displayed on the home page, 5 are related to Israel - not bad for a tiny country in the middle east. AllofMe, SeeToo, Google Israel, eToro and SuTree - read more on VC Cafe.

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Quigo Brings Home the Bacon, 5min for $5M, TransChip Makes an Exit, Refresh 07

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

1. AOL buys Quigo for $340M. Yaron Galai and Oded Itzhak [...]

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How to raise money from VCs?

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The funny video below was posted on 5min.com, the Israeli life videopedia that aggregates thousands of ‘how to’ videos, and will likely be on every Israeli Venture Capital blog very soon as a ‘warning’ sign. Techcrunch also thought it was worthy [...]

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Business Symbiosis vs. Natural Selection

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Definitions of ’symbiosis’ (simbe-osis, -bi-) - The American Heritage® Dictionary 1. symbiosis (n.) A close, prolonged association between two or more different organisms of different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each member. 2. symbiosis (n.) A relationship [...]

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