Entrepreneurship is like riding a bicycle. You are going to fall and get hurt before you learn to do it right. Having recently attended an event on common mistakes made by entrepreneurs, I thought you would benefit from learning some of the lessons from people who got it wrong the first time.
Last year, Eric Schmidt has promised to buy a start up a month as Google re-kindles its M&A activities. Aardvark and reMail were the most recent buys and now, several sources report that theIsraeli start-up Catch Media might be next.
Like this catchy song, the Internet is full of innovative sites products put up there by entrepreneurs looking to get a million users, downloads or clicks. In fact, according to domaintools.com, approximately 125,000 domains are registered on a daily basis
Terra Venture Partners, a $25 million fund made the most first investments in 2009 (6 deals) followed by Carmel, Giza, JVP, Magma, Pitango, Sequoia and TriVentures (another small fund with $25 million under management), who all made 5 first time investments.
About 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected…
Oracle acquires Israel-based Convergin, developer of a real-time service brokering applications for the telecom industry. Convergin has raised around $10 million in VC funding from Pitango Venture Capital and Rich Investment in November 2008.
Motorola Ventures, the corporate VC arm of Motorola, placed a strategic investment in Israel's TuneWiki Series B (announced Feb 8 2010). TuneWiki's main investor Benchmark Israel also participated in the round, along with a few new investors
Israel-based Pursway (formerly known as Datanetis) announced its series A of $6 million led by Battery Ventures office in Israel. Pursway uses patent pending sentiment analysis technology on social networks, enabling clients to identify the influencers and followers for each of their products product within their customer database.
BDI COFACE RAISES ISRAEL RISK RATING, ISRAEL RAISES GROWTH FORECAST TO 3.5% FOR 2010, WEIZMANN INSTITUTE RANKED #2 WORLDWIDE, SPAIN'S TELEFONICA BUYS ISRAELI VOIP COMPANY JAJAH, IT MANAGEMENT GIANT CA BUYS REMOTE SERVER SOFTWARE COMPANY OBLICORE, 4 ISRAELI START-UPS WIN RED HERRING 100 GLOBAL AWARDS, Israel Space Agency,
Information overload! That’s the only way to explain the “January Effect” of tech and VC news since the new decade began a week ago. Here’s a few links worth clicking on: Microsoft’s research and development center in Israel is set…
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