AI has become the year’s venture capital buzzword. Dan Primack, Axios Earlier this week I joined Dr. Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) to give a talk to her Entrepreneurial Finance class. I covered…
Building on my post on 'Advice for startups in a downturn (May 2022 edition)', this week I continued to follow with interest the impact of the current correction on startups and venture capital, particularly in early stage.
VC Cafe turned seven! in this post I cover the journey of starting VC Cafe, the highs and downs along the way, and the path I followed to evolve it from a news reporting blog to a site that provides founders with practical advice.
There’s been a lot of talk recently about small startups being over funded. Sean Parker, founder of Napster, President of Facebook and Founders Fund investor, said: “The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early-stage investors. A lot of these early-stage investors…
Every now and then I run into a post that I'd love VC Cafe readers to see. The post "What I learned from raising venture capital" by Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo is one of them. WHAT TO DO WHEN RAISING VENTURE CAPITAL: Save up good news for the middle of the process - launching features that promote growth and getting recognition from the industry (awards, etc) in good timing can help "maximize luck"
A few months ago, my colleague Jalin Somaiya and myself (Eze Vidra) gave the below presentation to a group of 20 entrepreneurs who participated in Launchpad, a London-based accelerator organized by Launch48.
VC Cafe is looking for guest posts and a full time blogger. Let me tell you why it is an interesting opportunity. Israel has the highest number of startups per capita, and the highest amount of VC investments per capita in the world ($142!). We at VC Cafe have been putting the spotlight on Israeli innovation and VC investments in Israel since 2005
This post takes a look at 10 Israeli startups funded in the last year. The descriptions of the startups are self reported. 1) Caftor (button in Hebrew) Caftor is two things: 1) a platform for connecting the real world with…
10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments - based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. So what makes one VC fund be better perceived than others?
VC Cafe asked entrepreneurs to tell us what type of help or support they wish they could get from the venture capital investors. What started originally as how can VCs differentiate themselves to stand out, quickly became an Entrepreneur's wish list from its VCs.
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