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AllRise.com Presents Cyber Arbitration

Jury, have you reached your verdict? Techcrunch’ s Michael Arrington says he has. Yesterday he reviewed Allrise.com, an Israeli site in private alpha that offers a community arbitration platform. What’s the verdict? He loved it. Users of AllRise can present their cases to a ‘community courthouse’, by creating online complaints against anyone (boss, wife, municipality) …

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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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iMedix wins Crunchies award in San Francisco

Kudos to iMedix for winning the Crunchies award for Best New Startup at Herbst theater San Francisco . iMedix has beaten some impressive contenders in the process: Hulu, Tumblr, Joost and Ribbit. I fist wrote about iMedix in December, when they officially launched WebMd on steroids. iMeidx was founded by Amir Leitersdorf and Iri Amirav …

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Techcrunch post stirs political debate

The Israel Web Tour is less than a month away and it’s already making headlines. Michael Arrington posted about the fifteen Israeli companies chosen to tour Silicon Valley (covered on VC Cafe), and sparked a debate in the comments section. TechCrunch’s short post sparked a political debate spanning across 59 comments, questioning the right of …

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Go Israel: Out of 8 stories on Techcrunch’s homepage, 5 are on Israel: AllofMe, SeeToo, Google Israel, eToro and SuTree

The front page at TechCrunch looks as if it was taken out of the Venture Capital Cafe today. Out of 8 posts displayed on the home page, 5 are related to Israel – not bad for a tiny country in the middle east. AllofMe, SeeToo, Google Israel, eToro and SuTree – read more on VC Cafe.

How to raise money from VCs?

The funny video below was posted on 5min.com, the Israeli life videopedia that aggregates thousands of ‘how to’ videos, and will likely be on every Israeli Venture Capital blog very soon as a ‘warning’ sign. Techcrunch also thought it was worthy of a post. It’s a parody in Hebrew that provides entrepreneurs with tips on raising …

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Bubble Burst – web 2.0 for sale

In the past two years we’ve seen over 1154 web 2.0 start-ups, based on the logo count of GoWeb20. Unfortunately, not all start-ups make it which created a new type of commodity: web 2.0 sites for sale. As reported by Techcrunch earlier this month, Web 2.0 for sale is a marketplace for Web 2.0 sites, …

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