Posts Tagged with "israel"

Facebook Connect & Israeli Elections

Friday, February 13, 2009

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The Israeli elections were just held earlier this week. Inspired by what we at Facebook did with CNN during the inauguration of President Obama, and Nana10 & Israeli TV Channel 10 decided to totally by themselves launch a similar integration. What was impressive, was the fact that they did it all by themselves and manged [...]

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The Truth About Israeli VC’s?

Sunday, March 25, 2007

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The judgments are quite hard with a few exceptions: Giza Venture Capital: Arrogant and untrustworthy Genesis Partners: They thing you work for them Walden Israel: This VC is asleep please do not disturb Apax Partners: If they invite you, it's to learn...not to invest Benchmark Israel Capital: Michael Eisenberg - One of the most sophisticated/manipulative/dangerous people in the industry Pitango Venture Capital: Large tanker VC - too large for Israel Evergreen Venture Partners: They were very impressed, and we are still waiting Jerusalem Global Ventures: Shlomo Kalish is/was the alpha male of this VC Fortissimo Capital: One of the few serious guys in the industry Carmel Ventures: An investment company that thinks it's a VC Zone Ventures: If you got extra time on your hands to burn It is not clear to me what parameters they use for passing judgement on the VC's, however I think initiatives like thefunded have an important role to play.... I therefore recommend any entrepreneur to really examine carefully every potential investor beyond the money and the term-sheet, and question themselves if this really is a partner I can imagine to "live with"?

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Morten Lund Invest In Spearcast

Friday, April 7, 2006

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My good friend and Maxthon partner, Morten Lund (early Skype-investor) & his team at LundKenner has just made a strategic investment in Israeli Start-up Spearcast. I am very happy of being responsible for making this happen. Morten will take a seat on Spearcast’s Board of Directors (I am already on Spearcast’s Advisory Board). Spearcast, recently [...]

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Michael Arrington With The Maxthon U3 Key!

Thursday, March 2, 2006

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Dinner in Tel Aviv with Techcrunch Here’s a group picture from the Techcrunch dinner in Tel Aviv. From the right, Michel Arrington (look he’s got Maxthon on a U3 key around the neck!). I’m the happy guy between Michael and Ouriel. Related posts: China: Strength in Advertising Suggests A Stable Year Ahead, Yide Partners With Maxthon To [...]

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Celebrating One Year As A Blogger

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

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I have now passed my first year as a blogger and it has been an amazing year. This blog was born out of many requests that I got from working with various media agencies and start-ups on questions like: do you have any research on viral marketing? do you know of any company providing …? [...]

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Israeli VC’s & The Search for the Internet Success

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

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What have we learned from our mistakes? Will the local Israeli venture capitalist’s get in the game? With these questions in mind the Israeli VC Gemini Israel Funds gathered a group of former and current influential from the Israeli Internet scene. There where people from ICQ, Speedbit, Hotbar, Aladdin, Netsnippets, Spearcast, Maxthon (guess who..) and [...]

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