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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. Meanwhile, remote-working — which comes naturally to Israeli entrepreneurs — is “flattening” the world, giving a great advantage to normally distant startup ecosystems like Israel’s. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

TechCrunch

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. 6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Co-founder Paul Graham got his Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard. Robert Morris, another co-founder, was a professor at MIT. It is like a 3 month boot camp for startups.

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What Is Acqui-Hiring & How It Works?

Feedough

This term is believed to have first appeared in a blog post by Rex Hammock on May 11, 2005. He spelled it Acq-hire and characterised it as: When a large company “purchases” a small company with no employees other than its founders, typically to obtain some special talent or a cool concept. Makes failures appear to be successes. :

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YC is CRISPR for Startups

Y Combinator

Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. People often believe that YC’s raison d’etre is Demo Day and fundraising — and that founders’ singular goal in applying to YC and completing our program is to increase their probability of executing a successful fundraise.