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Israeli startup Landscape Collection – 2024
Regular readers of VC Cafe are well aware of my passion for startup landscapes. This year is no…
How Venture Capital Funds Leverage AI and Big Data
Venture Capitalists invest in tech, but how much tech do they actually USE in running their own business?…
Turns out venture capital is a people business, or is it?
Is Venture capital a people business or an antiquated model that is ripe for disruption? I share arguments for and against from two interesting posts I read this week.
Startup Campuses Come to Europe
Mega startup campuses, the latest trend in co-working, are spreading their wings in Europe. They are different from the traditional co-working space not just in size, but also in scope and ambition.
As the founding head of Campus London, Google’s first physical hub for startups and now home to over 80,000 registered members, I thought it would be interesting to share the latest developments in this space from my perspective.
10 things I wished I knew when I first became an entrepreneur
“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship?—?the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an…
Israeli Startup Landscape Maps
Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post I collected the Israeli startup landscape maps in AR/VR, DevOps, Cybersecurity, IOT, Fintech and more.
How to find an international MD for your startup
It’s no secret that the London startup ecosystem is booming. It’s incredible to see it from the vantage…
Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2013 Edition
As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry…
How I closed a round with 7 Investors and Survived [Guest post]
Funding is never easy. Even when you hear stories about entrepreneurs who walk out of a VC with a personal check from the managing director, it is usually after 6 months of pitching and hearing 'no'. This is the story by Yaniv Nizan from Soomla, who raised a round from 7 investors and lived to tell the tale.
The Early Stage VC Decision Making Process Infographic
Interesting infographic from Anna Vital in San Francisco, from the Kickstarter campaign "Becoming an Entrepreneur" Kickstarter campaign. Trying to get inside the mind of an early stage VC investor. Infographics could help dyslexic entrepreneurs to access the valuable insights that are currently "locked" in books or blog posts. The idea came to Anna as she is dyslexic herself.