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Waze founder Uri Levine on navigating to global success. Is this Facebook’s next billion-dollar acquisition?
Rumours are surfacing that Facebook is eyeing up social driving app Waze to follow on Instagram’s footsteps as its second big $1bn acquisition after Instagram. We travelled to Tel Aviv last year to examine the startup scene
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Startups, apply for your spot on Philipp Rösler’s delegation to Israel
Continuing his startup-friendly run in an election year, the Minister for Economics and Technology, Philipp Rösler, is inviting startups to join him on a trip to the Israel tech industry this June. The Minister
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VIDEO: The Israeli startup scene – Lessons for Europe’s entrepreneurs
Israel has the highest density of startups in the world, with 2000 people for every startup. Despite it being the 100th smallest country on the globe, the nation’s home to more than 4000 startups.
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Is coworking too much coffee and gossip? Welcome to the Israeli space for the misanthropic entrepreneur
In which Adam Fletcher explores a most unusual coworking space in Tel Aviv – and why Israelis aren’t as enamoured as Berliners with everyone’s favourite startup trend… Berlin boasts dozens of coworking spaces, most opening their
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“It’s not rudeness, it’s chutzpah” – an insider’s take on Israel’s startup success
With the DLD Tel Aviv Conference kicking off tomorrow, part of a full week of festivities in one of the world’s most sizzling tech hubs, we invited Israeli venture capitalist and tech journalist Gil Kerbs
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Tel Aviv and Berlin startups unite – at a rooftop party, naturally
Last night saw the cream of the Berlin startup crowd mix with representatives of the Tel Aviv scene last night in a format well-loved and utilised by both cities – a rooftop party. The
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Behind the scenes at Google Israel – creators of Google Suggest, Live Results… and fans of Settlers of Canaan
On our recent visit to Israel, we were invited to be the special guests at Google’s R&D centre in Haifa. The city, 90km north of Tel Aviv is shaking off its reputation as the
Read More »Waze – the crowdsourced traffic guide navigating its way to global success
We speak to co-founder Uri Levine on the remarkable trajectory of Israeli startup Waze On the traffic-clogged streets of Tel Aviv, every cab ride I experienced was either thrillingly close-to-illegal or brain-meltingly tiresome. Any
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From Stockholm to Tel Aviv – we tour “the Mediterranean Klarna” HQ in Israel
Klarna, the Swedish eCommerce payment platform that counts Mike Moritz and Klaus Hommels as board members is one of the burgeoning European companies that is turning its attention to Israel. Thanks to a recent
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“There’s only so many times you can fake an orgasm” – 10 nuggets of startup wisdom from Yossi Vardi
VentureVillage met with Yossi Vardi while in Israel – the grandfather of the Israeli tech scene and guest speaker at Campus Party on Thursday. Vardi has invested in over 80 high-tech companies and his
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