Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Table of Contents Challenge #1: The Lean Startup encourages agnostic experimentation instead of starting with a compelling strategy. Challenge #2: The Lean Startup’s focus on MVPs leads to failing too fast. Challenge #3: The Lean Startup leads to incremental products. And I ultimately came to appreciate that I wasn’t alone.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business. Aroomoogan didn’t reveal when asked which data sets were used to train its models and how the company mitigates any potential biases.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. During his free time, he started a blog to tell his friends back home about his life out west, and also to recommend TV shows. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene.

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OurCrowd

MAY 30, 2021

Startup of the Week: Zippin’s checkout-free shopping. Startups need resilience – especially in Israel. Startup of the Week: Zippin: Checkout-free shopping for busy people. Startups are companies that learn to manage crises from day one. This is the very essence of a startup – and Israel’s startup nation.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Startup of the Week: Treedom cuts carbon emissions. Startup of the Week: Treedom: Cutting carbon emissions worldwide. Treedom, based in Italy, enables consumers and corporations to plant trees and track their environmental impact with the click of a button. Join me and a legendary startup investor. Introductions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

It brings the startup’s total raised to $45 million, which Socher said will be put toward developing “premium features” and collaborating with outside developers to “show more useful actionable apps” in You’s search results page. Advertising accounts for the majority of Google’s revenue — $256.73

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Startup of the week: Diagnostic Robotics. Sushi, Samurai and the Startup Nation. Sky News: Startups solving global challenges. Israel’s nano-satellite startup offers big coverage at low cost. Startup of the week: Diagnostic Robotics. Sushi, Samurai and the Startup Nation. Learn more. Register now.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Startup of the week: Diagnostic Robotics. Sushi, Samurai and the Startup Nation. Sky News: Startups solving global challenges. Israel’s nano-satellite startup offers big coverage at low cost. Startup of the week: Diagnostic Robotics. Sushi, Samurai and the Startup Nation. Learn more. Register now.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Arcade remembers what you click on so users can make a version of their demo and then embed snippets of the product into websites, blogs and tweets so that people who haven’t used the product before can see it before signing on for a trial. ” Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

The company, a robotics startups spun out of MIT, already operates the scooters in several US cities and has been approved by the UK government to participate in trials for a London tender. Together, these steps will unleash huge untapped reserves, enabling tomorrow’s technologies to grow faster, for the benefit of all. Top Tech News.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

It’s called the Bullwhip Effect because small changes on one end of the value chain create huge disruption on the other. The same idea holds for a startup. They enable businesses to iterate faster by reducing latency. Andrew Chen has written a blog post describing how to do it, step by step.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Showcasing the Startup Nation to our new partners in the United Arab Emirates. 22 when we host the first major public event showcasing the Startup Nation to our new partners in the UAE, allowing many Israeli and Emirati investors to meet online for the first time. In the same period, Israeli startups raised $2.74 Job Vacancies.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Startup of the Week: VisIC, fueling the electric car revolution. Edgybees joins space startups in Amazon accelerator. Corporate introductions: Partner with startups. Startup of the Week: VisIC: Fueling the electric car revolution. CropX named World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer. Meet Zoom’s seed investor Jim Scheinman.

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OurCrowd

JULY 4, 2021

Startup of the Week: Ride Vision, preventing motorcycle deaths. Startup of the Week: Ride Vision: Preventing motorcycle deaths. Gone are the days when Israeli startups developed technology that nobody wanted for problems that didn’t need solving. Polaris qb New drugs in months, not years. CyberMDX: Stopping medical hackers.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 1, 2021

Startup of the Week: IXDen guarding Israel’s water supply. Startup of the Week: IXDen: Guarding Israel’s national water resources. OurCrowd portfolio company YuLife raised $70M in its quest to encourage better living, and disrupt the way people think about the insurance industry. SCiO grows in AgTech. Introductions. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 30, 2021

Startup of the Week: Materials Zone. Bill Gross: Launchpad will ‘disrupt manufacturing forever’ Overtime Sports raises $80M from Bezos, Drake and A-listers. Bill Gross: Launchpad will ‘disrupt manufacturing forever’ Overtime Sports raises $80M from Bezos, Drake and A-listers. Top investment opportunities.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 30, 2021

Startup of the Week: Materials Zone. Bill Gross: Launchpad will ‘disrupt manufacturing forever’ Overtime Sports raises $80M from Bezos, Drake and A-listers. Bill Gross: Launchpad will ‘disrupt manufacturing forever’ Overtime Sports raises $80M from Bezos, Drake and A-listers. Top investment opportunities.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Startup of the Week: Trials show Sufresca keeps produce fresher, longer. Israeli startup ProFuse aims to cut the production price of lab-cultured protein. That’s all about to change with the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle revolution – and it’s making its way into the startup ecosystem. Trash into cash: Join us online on May 23.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

No one wants to see startups fail, but we’re all keenly aware that most ultimately do. The previous two years were unprecedented in startup land, of course. Some startups blossomed and others struggled amid shutdowns and job losses. Accordingly, this year saw a lot of startups pumping the brakes or pulling the plug.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2022

Startup of the Week: Mermade: Game-changing tech for lab-grown food. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv were named among the top five AgTech & New Food ecosystems in the Global Agtech & New Food Ranking published by Startup Genome. And we believe that creators will disrupt education,” Yassin says. “We Learn More.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. In the startup funding landscape, I would compare AngelList and Gust to dating sites. The parallel in startup fundraising are firms like Superscout and Landscape Openscout. We list all of them below. HOW MUCH MONEY CAN YOU EARN?

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Startups tackling Covid and urgent health challenges. 3: Startups tackling Covid and urgent health challenges. Top health startup executives will look at medical efforts to combat Covid-19, the race for a vaccine, a possible therapy and how to make drug usage safer and more efficient. Click here to learn more about the company.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Startup of the Week: Bionaut micro-robot inside the brain. Startup of the Week: Bionaut: Micro-robot delivers drugs inside the brain. She included our culinary startup in her Favorite Things 2021 gift list. Israeli startup NetOp.cloud allows businesses to manage the new generation of networks in the cloud. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

Startup of the Week: BionicHIVE’s robot warehouse. Startup of the Week: BionicHIVE: Elon Musk hails “robot future”. OurCrowd portfolio company Phantom Auto , a California-based startup focusing on remote vehicle operation, will provide logistics equipment heavyweight Mitsubishi Logisnext Co. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

Other startups fueling this trend include payroll solutions-provider Papaya Global and cybersecurity company JumpCloud, which allows IT managers to track and manage users, devices and platforms on their networks. Lab-produced and plant-based food is disrupting a $6 trillion global food industry. Water Means Business”: WaterTech.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Building a successful social-media management software startup requires a deep understanding of your users’ needs, pain points, and aspirations. Try using automation as much as possible to streamline your customer-acquisition process and constantly use articles to speak to your ideal customers via a blog.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Startup of the Week: VisIC, fueling the electric car revolution. Startup of the Week: Ripple’s plant-based alternative. Startup of the Week: Ripple Foods: Watch out Oatly. He is the Founding Managing Partner at Maven Ventures, a leading seed venture fund for emerging consumer software startups. How to grow a hectocorn.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But Estimate has its basics right and is a great example of a company disrupting the existing industry using affiliate marketing. Estimate – Startup Review By Feedough. The main idea of Estimate is to enable two target audiences to satisfy their needs. Here are her thoughts on her startup –. The Offering. The Interview.

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OurCrowd

MAY 6, 2022

Startup of the Week: Genopore: Disease detection through proteomics. Genopore, an Israeli seed-stage, pre-revenue startup, is developing technology to take proteomics to a new level. Nowhere else in the world will you find such a small population with such disruptive technologies, specifically in surgical robotics.”.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Tmura: Startup options help those in need. The patented technology allows the surgeon to control tiny, human-like robotic arms that enables procedures currently considered unfeasible, and reduces scarring. Musk’s startup, of course, was Tesla, and the dream was an all-electric car. Introductions. 1,000 high-tech jobs.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Startup of the Week: Forbes: A ‘sea’ of opportunities for alternative fish. Yang discussed the impact of companies like Alibaba and Tencent and the “leapfrog opportunities” now available for FinTech startups in various markets around the world. Top Tech News. Scopio Labs raises $50M for its AI-powered, digital blood tests.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Ron DeSantis called in the Tel Aviv-based startup to protect Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee and St. Rewire also enables overseas Filipino workers to make Philippines Social Security payments without a fee. Florida – In recent US Presidential politics, as goes Florida so typically goes the nation. percent of pathogens.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 28, 2021

Startup of the Week: ByondXR powers Mitsubishi & Lancôme. Startup of the Week: ByondXR: Powering Mitsubishi and Lancôme online. You can invest through OurCrowd in this fast-growing startup. Waterfund has committed to invest $50M in OurCrowd startups addressing water, agtech, cleantech and related sectors, Wired reports.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. That line of reasoning would render the entire startup tech market useless.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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