Breaking The Habit

January 26, 2011 Startups

The following guest post was contributed by Bessemer Venture Partners partner Adam Fisher. It originally appeared on his blog Savants in the Levant. There are two styles of consumer Internet ventures emerging in Israel: product perfectionists and money chasers. Despite our tendency to celebrate and learn from both of them, one of these has a [...]

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Gogobot On A Roll, Wins TechAviv CA Peer Award and Crunchie

January 23, 2011 Competitions

Ori Zaltzman has been a TechAviv Founders Club regular since we kicked off the Silicon Valley branch a couple years ago. We knew him as the chief geek behind Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Boss and a mix of upstarts. He’s the kind of rock star hackers admire and execs fight over to hire (yours truly included). [...]

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ActivePath wins Boston best demo!

January 7, 2011 Startups

TechAviv MA’ers were in their best form for an excellent 2010 wrap-up meetup in December at MIT. We had three very different (consumer shopping, physical security, and enterprise software) and very cool startups demo their products and as usual the dialogue was crisp and direct (“Israeli style”). Kudos to Renan Levy, CEO of ActivePath for [...]

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Results-Centric Product Design

January 5, 2011 Advice

The following post was contributed by entrepreneur-turned-VC Eden Shochat. “There are lies, damn lies and then there is statistics” – Mark Twain One of the great benefits of being an investor is that I get the opportunity to work with people who are incredibly smart about running Internet businesses. Product and UX is still a kind [...]

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Startups From Mars, VCs From Venus

December 26, 2010 2 shekels

The following guest post was contributed by entrepreneur-turned-VC Eden Shochat. It originally appeared in the discussion board of the Dec 22nd TechAviv IL meetup. The we-do-2-seed-investments-alone-a-year-because-we-need-to-support-them model doesn’t work. There, I said it. I’m a recent recruit to the VC world, most recently co-founder of Aternity (user experience monitoring) and face.com (massive face recognition platform). Being [...]

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200 Founders, VCs Discuss Future of Israeli Tech Tonight 7PM IL (Video)

December 22, 2010 Conversation

A little over a year ago the TechAviv Founders Club in Israel convened a “group therapy” session between startup founders and VCs to get even the most taboo subjects of business building and funding out of the table. The result was one of our best meetups yet. To close off an exhilarating 2010 tonight we’re holding a [...]

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Saveby, ActivePath, and FST21 presenting at TechAviv Boston, Next Tuesday December 21st, 2010

December 13, 2010 Startups

We’re sending off 2010 with a holiday edition of TechAviv Boston this December. 70+ of Boston’s sharpest minds are getting together next Tuesday, December 21st at MIT to see 3 great entrepreneurs demo their products and companies. The presenting companies are Saveby, ActivePath, and FST21 . This is a members-only event but registration for Founders, Entrepreneurs, Investors, [...]

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TechAviv Angels Evolved

November 29, 2010 Angels

It’s been a year since we kicked-off the TechAviv Angels, an informal gathering of successful Israeli startup founders and investors that are privately angel-investing in Israeli Web and Mobile startups. Our format was simple – get together every 2 months to see pitches by the most promising TechAviv startups. I’m thrilled to say that the format [...]

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JoyTunes, Onset Technology, and Lifesta at TechAviv Boston this Thursday

October 12, 2010 Meetups

75 of Boston’s finest startup founders and investors are getting together this Thursday at MIT to see and discuss demos by JoyTunes, Onset Technology, and Lifesta, three very promising fellow TechAviv members. This is a members-only event but registration for Founders, Entrepreneurs, Investors, and MBA students is always open at TechAviv Boston. The Boston branch of the TechAviv [...]

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Aprigo Wins TechAviv NY Oct 2010 Top Demo Peer Award

October 12, 2010 Competitions

Its not often, heck, its actually never happened, that a B2B company wins the Top Demo vote at TechAviv’s New York branch. We’re primarily dominated by B2C Web and mobile startups so I thought it fitting to give founder/ceo Gil Zimmermann of Aprigo some props for doing just that last week in front of 100 [...]

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