Fail Fast, Fail Cheap? A contrarian point of view
Contrary to popular belief, failing fast and failing cheap could actually do a disservice to your startup. VC Cafe takes a contrarian view on this popular startup piece of advice.
Shana Tova from VC Cafe
Shana Tova from VC Cafe - a few wishes for the new year and a look back on the year we've had.
World Economic Forum Picks Israel’s Takadu as one of its 2011 Technology Pioneers
his year's winners included a higher number of clean tech companies, Amongst the 31 companies to receive the honor is Israeli startup Takadu, creator of a SaaS product for water distribution networks through the adoption of a grid approach
Invest in Israel Newsletter August 2010 Edition
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. See the March 2010 edition after the jump. For previous editions, click here.
Ten Takeaways from Deloitte’s 2010 Israel VC Indicator Survey
Deloitte Touche in Israel produces a Venture Capital and Private Equity survey every other quarter in an attempt to identify trends within the venture capital arena, give a summary of VC expectations of the Israeli VC community for the next six to twelve months. This is the survey 33rd installment in Israel and the responses were collected in June this year.
IVC Report Q2 2010: Seeds of Recovery in Venture Capital Funding
The summary of high tech capital raising in Q2 is out, and the IVC Research Center confirm what we've already knew - capital raising in Israel is showing seeds of recovery (see VC Cafe's post "Crisis Shmisis") with $343 million raised in 104 deals, representing an increase of 47% from the previous quarter. Life sciences continue to lead capital raising, attracting $109 million, and Israeli VC investments are a much smaller slice of the pie.
Bitesize Friday: Compass EOS, Soho OS, Supersonicads, Legolas Media and More
Some call it "quick hits", "first read" or "readings". At VC Cafe we calls it Bitesize. Below are the headlines for the week of July 8 2010: Startups of the week virtual good paymentsSupersonicAds - a dominant leader in virtual currency monetization for online games, virtual worlds and social networks. The company's customizable, plug and play payment platform gives consumers the opportunity to earn virtual currency for free by completing targeted offers
Scaling up: Gerson Lehrman Group Announces Bloomberg Partnership
Gerson Lerhman Group ("GLG", but not to confuse with the hedge fund), the world's largest monetized expert network, and Bloomberg Professional Services announced a high-value collaboration, enabling Bloomberg Professional clients access to more than 50,000 select GLG Council Members through the Bloomberg terminal.
Crisis Shmisis: Q2 2010 Closes with 40 deals and more than $400 million raised in Israel (Deal Summary)
The second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested
Libox Wants To Manage All of Your Media and on Any Device (Interview with Erez Pilosof)
Libox, a new Tel Aviv-based startup offering a free service to share and store photos, videos and music, wants to disrupt the industry. To learn more about the product and the founder's ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! (Israel's largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, deputy CEO at Libox.
BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)
BizMe2, a new Israeli startup led by serial entrepreneur Yair Margolin, is looking to do to conferences what Wordpress did to blogging. I spoke with Yair last week to learn more about BizMe2 and plans for the future. The conversation was in Hebrew, so hopefully nothing got "lost in translation".