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. In this first edition of 2014, the highlight is in the 2013 performance of VC-backed companies in Israel, reaching a decade record in return.
I was asked to contribute to a crowdsourced book about the future, looking to predict the world in 2020. While it doesn't seem that far away, I took the liberty of virtually 'closing my eyes' to imagine how Media, Context and Education would change in 6 years time.
* Guest post by Elinor Kalina So you thought of a brilliant idea, ran a quick market analysis and now you’re knee deep in initial spec drafts while also searching for the impossible – a good, talented, experienced programmer. There…
The city of Tel Aviv, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is launching BizCamp Tel Aviv, a "Startup Bootcamp" for European entrepreneurs. It's a great prize, which includes free flights and accommodation, plus a dedicated programme of seminars, networking opportunities, and visits to the main R&D facilities of Google, eBay and Microsoft.
This morning I attended an interesting session on "The Power of Design" by Doug Richard, an angel investor, former "Dragon", and founder of "School for Startups". Below are the 10 questions to evaluate a business opportunity that every entrepreneur should be able to answer.
Safebit has launched a Chrome extension preview version which received positive reviews, and is now operating in Alpha mode. According to the founders, on the first 24 hours of operation, over 725 unique users paid with Safebit.
I’ll be in Incredible India next week. I’d love to hear from Israeli entrepreneurs doing business in India in one way or another – please contact me at eze [at] vccafe dot com. ALSO If you’re an Israeli tech startup…
VCCAfe has partnered with Innovate!2010 to bring you an exciting opportunity and we want to invite you to get involved for FREE. Innovate!2010 is a global competition to identify top technology, media and communications startups from around the world, base…
WiseStamp , a Firefox plugin developed in Israel, won the 'best social media gadget' award in Mashable's third Open Web Awards.
Time To Know has developed a “teaching platform” which is designed to be the primary instructional platform in the modern classroom.
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