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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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 25, 2007
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"?
Continue reading...Friday, April 7, 2006
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 2, 2006
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 7, 2006
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 …? [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 17, 2006
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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