In an exclusive interview with VC Cafe, Levy Cohen, CEO and Founder of Israel/US based Collarity, provides insights into the company’s value proposition, future plans and lessons learned along the way. Founded in 2005, Collarity has developed a comprehensive content…
SemantiNet, a semantic search technology startup based in Israel, raised a round of $1.7 million led by Giza Venture Capital. Israeli angel and internet guru Yossi Vardi is listed among Semantinet’s previous investors along with Sir Ronald Cohen (founder of Apax Partners), Robert Imershein, Moudi Ben-Shachand and Jeff Pulver. …
Will Price of Hummer Winblad summarizes an interesting session at the University Venture Fund‘s Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The session titled “Quick Hits: Do’s and Dont’s of Entrepreneurshipa” was given by Martin Plaehn’s, CEO of Bungee Labs, to a crowd…
Investing in stocks is a risky business, especially when the markets are a roller coaster like today. Rather than putting all your money in US government bonds until the storm is gone, one can use the web to alleviate the…
Richard St. John found personal success as the founder of the St. John Group, his marketing company that made millions representing clients such as Nortel and Blackberry. But he wanted to answer a simple question Why me? Entrepreneurs might find…
General winter is here in San Francisco, and I felt his impact well this week as I battled the flue in bed. Due to a short break, some of this week’s top headlines didn’t make it to the front page…
Kudos to iMedix for winning the Crunchies award for Best New Startup at Herbst theater San Francisco . iMedix has beaten some impressive contenders in the process: Hulu, Tumblr, Joost and Ribbit. I fist wrote about iMedix in December, when…
The Israeli market received a great deal of media coverage in 2007. Some journalists lamented on the momentum and promise of the Israeli start up world; some sell-side analysts “shorted” the strength of the economy for a myriad of factors.…
Colorado Life Science Deal Flow and Seth Levine of the Foundry Group wrote a couple of great posts on the CEO review process. I clipped the posts for my own records, but thought VC Café readers – entrepreneurs and investors…
In a classic MacWorld speaker move, Steve Jobs (aka “his jobness”) announced Apple’s latest invention this week in San Francisco.As you probably heard, the new beauty is called Macbook Air, the world’s thinnest laptop, weighing only 3 pounds and packed…
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