Category Archives: Eze Vidra

A wealth of sources for startup fundraising – A primer for founders

The financial side of technology entrepreneurship means that almost from inception, an entrepreneur has to think about and plan his or her sources of financing. Wether you like it or not, startups can merely get a break between rounds of fundraising. It’s hard to know where to start sometimes, so this list should hopefully serve as a friendly primer for London startups. 

Video: How can your startup make use of Campus London?

I had a great pleasure to host Don Dodge at Campus last month for our one year anniversary to speak with the venture community in London about Campus, startups and Google. Don is a senior developer advocate with years of experience as an influential Microsoft startup evangelist (like Guy Kawasaki did for Apple, and Scoble …

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Startups Start Local But Go Global. Is Europe Included?

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Cities Summit Tel Aviv, in a session moderated by Mr Yossi Vardi. The topic was the “Innovative code” of cities. My talk focused on London and its ability to become a startup center in Europe. In a nutshell, London has all the components it needs to succeed.

Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

Israeli startups in the mobile space are once again showing impressive attendance levels, with 56 Israeli companies exhibiting in the Israeli Pavilion at the 2011 Mobile World Congress [MWC]. For the third consecutive year, VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli startups presenting at the event.

VC Cafe Turns Four

VC Cafe was born four years ago, in December of 2005. Back then, under goisrael.blogspot.com, my goal was ambitious but simple. VC Cafe was to be a source of positive news about Israel, beyond what one sees on CNN or BBC by providing a spotlight on early stage Israeli start ups, which often conceive brilliant ideas …

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Advice for Start up CEOS: Learn Your A-B-C (Always Be Closing)

Imagine that your investors told you that you’re fired from the CEO role of the company you have founded with blood, sweat and tears. They do however give you a week to win your job back. What would you do differently?

SeekingAlpha Seeks No Further: B Round Raised from DAG Ventures

Israel-based SeekingAlpha, publisher of user-generated financial commentary has raised a B round of $7 million, led by DAG Ventures and joined by previous backers Benchmark (Michael Eisenberg) and Accel.

Did you Get Your Facebook Vanity URL?

The facebook land rush is on and boy it’s intense. Starting today, June 13, Facebook allows users to claim their username to appear in the web address of their profile page. For example: You must pick a name that is at least 5 characters long, and once you pick one, you cannot change it (for …

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VC Cafe Featured in “Blogs Every Israeli Startup Must Know”

TheMarker, Israel’s prominent business magazine and Haaretz, one of Israel’s largest newspapers, featured VC Cafe in a spread on “The Blogs That Every Israeli Startup Should Know“. Guy Grimland, editor of TheMarker IT, interviewed me a couple weeks ago and at the outset of the interview asked me “why should startups approach VC Cafe rather …

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Back From Hawaii, Lots of Excitement to Report

I’m going to resume writing on all the VC and Israeli startup news soon, but first I wanted to share a piece of personal news with you. This past week while on vacation in Hawaii, I asked my long-time girlfriend to be my wife. I’m happy to report she said “Ken!” (yes in Hebrew). To …

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