A few links to start the week: The power of Chartly as an idea generation tool: Why Freakonomics like geo-engineering and why they are wrong Begin with the gate of humility A good start AND a long way to…
Amdocs announced two investments in Israeli start ups in an event held yesterday in Sillicon Valley. The Israeli giant unveiled its Open Innovation program by disclosing its investments in Amobee Media Systems, which develops mobile advertising server solutions for telecommunications providers, as…
CopperGate, the Fabless Semiconductor start up founded in 2000, was sold to Sigma Designs for $160 million in stock and cash. While this is one of the largest exits in Israel in recent months, critics say that it is yet another example of why high-tech companies can't become large in Israel.
How Techcrunch posted old news and did not even bother to link to my original post, from three months back.
I'm not expert, but the VC model seems to be broken. How can small start ups sustain the large exit expectations? An amateur tries to solve the problem.
Just think about it: we flip between a dozen news sources on our mobile while getting the morning coffee. We try to find that “undiscovered” travel destinations based on reviews, availability and location while simultaneously emailing and sitting on a…
It has been a good quarter for crowdsourcing start up uTest: Expanded software testing marketplace by 30% quarter-over-quarter Acquired 37 new customers, and increased testing community to 18,000 Added application profiling and discussion threads to platform Complete website redesign, adding…
My6Sense is coming out of stealth in the coming days. The Israeli start up offers an iPhone app that pushes content to the user in a signgle feed, from his chosen feed subscriptions (RSS of news, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc).…
Macabbi Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s largest footbal teams made an official announcement of its new sponsor today – a Canadian financial services company that will provide the company $500K per season. The sponsor is Paygea, a provider of proprietary…
Israel-based "How to" video site 5min.com has announced a second round of financing of $7.5 million. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, a new investor in the company. Spark Capital, 5min's previous investor, joined the round.
