Whether you're a startup founder, angel investor or VC, you've probably had the need to quickly understand an industry. Dissect the supply and value chain, understand how money flows and what companies are playing in each category. Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly understand what's going in mobile gaming, SaaS, marketplaces, etc?
Games are the new frontier in education bringing players an array of brain exercise: test your recall, help you practice a skill, give you feedback on how well you're progressing, and much more besides.
There are a lot of decisions to make when launching a new product. Ultimately, your audience knows best what they like, but you rarely have a chance to get their real feedback before you put something out there. This is why I recently fell in love with ProductHunt (PH).
As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. In this first edition of 2014, the highlight is in the 2013 performance of VC-backed companies in Israel, reaching a decade record in return.
The main issues discussed on The World Economic Forum in 2014 and some of the highlights in pictures and video.
Guest post by Daniel Abrahams, founder of CurrencyTransfer. I’ve always been intrigued by the success of the ‘Startup Nation.’ In this post, I want to share my story. That of a British startup which naively arrived for three months in Tel Aviv and hasn’t looked back since.
I was asked to contribute to a crowdsourced book about the future, looking to predict the world in 2020. While it doesn't seem that far away, I took the liberty of virtually 'closing my eyes' to imagine how Media, Context and Education would change in 6 years time.
One can clearly see a close and compelling partnership between Britain and Israel, specifically in business and trade, where both countries recognising their partner’s strengths, seek to use it to encourage and enhance their own potential.
You're probably familiar with the 60's bestseller by Dale Carnegie, or at least you've heard of it. He's main point is "Interested is interesting!". The best way to get people to want to connect with you is to show interest in them. We're all selfish creatures, or so it seems.
Folks in Silicon Valley seem to have been indoctrinated in the "Think big" mentality fully - and it's contagious.
I've spent the past couple of weeks working with my American colleagues in New York and San Francisco and meeting our global partners. If there's one thing I could say is a stark difference between European entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley ones, is this 10X, or "moonshot" thinking.
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