10 things I wished I knew when I first became an entrepreneur
“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship?—?the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter F. Drucker Credit: Pixbay I embarked on a 30...
View ArticleStartup Campuses Come to Europe
“Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners” – Brad Feld Mega startup campuses,...
View ArticleA wealth of sources for startup fundraising – A primer for founders
Earlier this week I posted a tweet about sources of funding: Sources of funding for startups (London edition) Angels (seis incentives) Accelerators- 205 incubators and 163 accelerators Grants-...
View ArticleUpdate from Techbikers on community and impact in 2018 ??
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” ? Andrew Carnegie * Originally published on Medium. It’s been an active...
View ArticleThe 7 habits of highly effective people… in startups
I’ve just finished re-reading “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, a bestseller written by Stephen R. Covey 30 years ago; it might be old, but it is still...
View ArticleJob vs. Startup
Last week, I spoke to a group of students at London Business School about what makes Israel a unique startup ecosystem and our approach to venture at Remagine Ventures. The students had some great...
View ArticleYC’s Guide to Series A
There are many good startup resources out there, and it can be confusing for founders to know which one to pay attention to. Well, here’s a good one for you! Y Combinator‘s Aaron Harris and Janelle...
View Article100+ Startups offering free products and services in response to Coronavirus
It’s safe to say that we don’t yet know how long the Covid-19 situation will continue, but it has already had a major impact on public health and the economy. Tech can play a role in helping on...
View ArticleAlternative tech job boards during Covid-19
Startups are getting hit hard by the economic price of Covid-19. As the New York Times reported yesterday, many companies have started laying off people already. Social distancing means that in many...
View ArticleThe impact of Covid-19 on Livestreaming adoption
Humans are social creatures. We want to connect and communicate. In my previous post I looked at virtual events in the age of social distancing. Benedict Evans wrote an excellent piece on forced...
View ArticleCovid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel
Several European countries started announcing ‘Exit Plans’ from the current lockdowns. But as the world is starting to flatten the curves, the economic impact is just beginning. Earlier this week the...
View ArticleMichael Moritz column on the winners and losers in the wake of Covid-19
In his opinion column on the Financial Times titled “The business world can never go back to the way things were“, famed Sequoia partner Michael Moritz articulates what he believes are the winners and...
View ArticleJoin us for the inaugural Israeli media tech and esports conference online
We (Remagine Ventures) and our friends at Fusion LA are happy to invite founders, investors and media experts to the inaugural Media and eSports Online Annual Conference. The event will highlight...
View ArticleReport: Israel Private Capital Breakdown 2020
Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020, covering private equity and venture capital. I’ll focus on VC only here as it’s the core focus of this blog. In...
View ArticleRiches in Niches
niche: a specialized segment of the market for a particular kind of product or service. Not all businesses are a fit, or require venture capital. But for fast scaling tech startups, to attract venture...
View ArticleHow can startups engage Amazon and AWS across investment, partnerships and...
A few months ago, VC Cafe launched a series on startup engagement and outreach programs of large tech companies. After covering Google startup outreach and support (from my first hand experience), I’m...
View ArticleThe most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming
“It follows that the goal of forecasting is not to see what’s coming. It is to advance the interests of the forecaster and the forecaster’s tribe.”PHILIP TETLOCK, SUPERFORECASTING: THE ART AND SCIENCE...
View ArticleThe State of Creative Automation
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”Pablo Picasso Like many other parts of our life and work, creativity, the ability to invent or design something new from scratch,...
View ArticleOpportunities for startups in the creator economy
The creator economy consists of a new set of tools designed to support content creators from all walks of life (from doctors to hobbyists). Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy]...
View ArticleThe Consumerisation of Enterprise IT is now the Standard
I was reading the book “Super Founders” by Ali Temaseb in which he breaks down the data behind billion dollar startups. When he asked founders and investors of billion dollar companies what spaces...
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