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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – August 1st 2024
The original version of this newsletter was published on LinkedIn. Click here to sign up. The word “Firgun”…
Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel
Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7…
Tel Aviv to London – Mind the Gap
Yesterday, UK Israel Business, a bi-lateral trade organisation promoting economic activity between the two countries, hosted Innovate 19’ - a half day conference that brought to London Israeli scaleups and startups across AI, BlockChain, Cyber Security, Computer Vision, HealthTech, Quantum Computing and Food tech hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). I was asked to share my thoughts on how we can bring the UK and Israel closer together. I represented Remagine Ventures by sharing how we can bring the UK and Israel closer together by learning from each other’s strengths.
The Many Forms of Innovation and the Future of Work
Innovations comes in many forms and different parts of the economy are adapting to it differently. This post covers difference between a group of students and a group of industrialists and includes a video of the future work environment in 2025.
CES 2013 Preview: What Happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas
This week marks the annual orgy of PR excess known as the Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 (mostly male) visitors, many sporting T-shirts with mysterious acronyms like “4K in HD3D”, will alternate between 2 million square feet of exhibition space and the craps tables. Unfortunately for the 3,200 exhibitors, their marketing dollars will be squandered. Although I will predict a few likely trends, when it comes to CES, what happens in Vegas really does STAY in Vegas.
Eyeview Raises $1 Million Round from Innovation Endeavors
In 2008, we covered the story of EyeView on VC Cafe. Three friends won the Harvard Business School business plan competition, carried on with the venture to raise money from respectable VCs in Israel and land clients like Yahoo and eBay. But since then, very little was heard about the company until now. Beet.tv reported that Innovation Endeavors, the VC fund led by Google's chairman Eric Schmidt, has invested an additional $1 million in Eyeview, bringing the total investment in the company to $6 million to date from Gemini and Lightspeed ventures.
Weekend Reads: from Innovation to Recession
How Yahoo’s Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart http://goo.gl/UXBv [the flip side of Dapper’s acquisition by RWW] Venture…