10 links that are worth your click: 1) SEO: Google published a 22-page long pdf guide on SEO for beginners. There’s nothing new there if you are a pro, but since Google are the ones who control SEO on the…
A message for entrepreneurs who want to get rich quickly: Be patient! It’s been a whole year since we first covered Taboola. Back then, Evergreen Venture Partners put a million and a half dollars to fund what they believed would…
Lock and load – that’s what five Israeli startups did this week announcing a total of $30 million from both Israeli and international funds. After almost a year and a half of no investments in Israeli startups, Ouriel Ohayon’s LGI…
IVC Online has recently released the Q3 quarterly survey on the state of the VC industry in Israel. Q3 2008 contributed $600 million to the capital raised by Israeli VCs, 45% above Q3/07 levels. These figures are not surprising, given…
A week ago VC Cafe covered the alpha release of Israel and San Francisco based boxee. Today Boxee has announced a $4 million A round from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures to continue development of its social media center…
This morning I was invited to stop by Tech Spin Out 2008, a conference organized by the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), with the goal of exploring the activities that help transform small companies into big companies. As I mentioned…
Newsflash: the worse the economic situation, the more people play video games. It’s cheaper to stay at home and play Super Mario than to go out for a movie these days. According to a recent article by the New York…
Doom and gloom reports return to all the major tech blogs – this time the crisis hits the Venture Capital Industry – starting with TheFunded.com’s editor Adeo Ressi, and his presentation to the Finance and entrepreneurship faculty at Harvard Business…
In times like this, a startup should leverage any help it can get. The Active Startup Club at London Business School published a list of resources for London based startups and entrepreneurs. VC Cafe is happy to share these with…
As the phone converges into a GPS device, people are putting away their TomTom devices and simply installing a navigation app on their 3G phone. The level of detail on these apps varies, but Israeli startup 3DVU claims to have…
