start-ups

Bio and Interests: Trace Cohen

Trace Cohen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:42:09 -0400

Trace Cohen is a rising junior in the Whitman School of Management, double-majoring in Entrepreneurship and Marketing and minoring in Information Management and Technology. Trace's experience at Angelsoft gave him the opportunity to interface directly with its President, David Rose (also the President of the New York Angels) (link to site). Cohen’s work with Rose gave him unique insight into the needs of startups as well as effective marketing tools for growing small businesses. Trace has always been fascinated with technology and how stuff works.

The Yoga of Business

Carly Cummings — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:17:57 -0400

Finding the balance between conscious living and business success.
Running a small yoga studio while building the Hyp-Yoga Inc. licensing empire.

Bio and Interests: Nathan Bagby

Nathan Bagby — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:08:43 -0400

I am the CEO of Arion Innovations. We are interested in bringing innovation to as many fields and areas as we can. Currently the field we are most vested in is small business. This profile is primarily for our business. We are currently 4 friends strong. We have several projects in the works, and are interested in communicating with like minded individuals, getting input and ideas from a diverse group of business professionals.

Bio and Interests: Steve Lavi

Steve Lavi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:37:38 -0400

The Israel Tech and Science Blog

Steve Lavi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:31:08 -0400

Nuconomy

Steve Lavi — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:04:37 -0500

Nuconomy based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco (part of the recent Israeli web tour in California) aims to give publishers more information about their websites than Google Analytics currently offers. CEO Shahar Nechmad wants to give people insights that are usually only available to sites that can pay thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars per month, from service providers like webtrends or omniture.

Israel Tech and Science

Kontera - In-Text Advertising

Steve Lavi — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:09:50 -0500

Kontera is a leading provider of In-Text Advertising and Information Services based on patent- pending text and content analysis technology that maximizes relevancy and yield for online users, publishers, and advertisers.

Israel Tech and Science

A small city in Israel sues Google for false information

Steve Lavi — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:51:17 -0500

see the story on Digg.com

http://digg.com/tech_news/A_small_city_in_Israel_sues_Google_for_false_information

Israel Tech and Science

eBay Acquires Fraud Sciences For $169 Million

Steve Lavi — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:03:44 -0500

eBay through Paypal has acquired fraud detection provider Fraud Sciences Ltd for $169 million.

Israel and Palo Alto based Fraud Sciences offers automated anti-fraud systems including the SpotLight VFX and SpotLight T2T, merchant solutions that provide transaction verification with fraud prevention.

eBay said the acquisition will assist them in significantly improving trust and safety across its sites in 2008. Fraud Sciences’ risk tools will be integrated with PayPal’s fraud management system.

Israel Tech and Science

15 Israeli Start-ups tour West Coast

Steve Lavi — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:50:07 -0500

15 Israeli companies took part in this year’s tour. The tour started on Feb 4 and the highlight of the week was a public showcase on Feb 6 hosted at Microsoft where each start-up presented to industry and press.

THE 2008 ISRAEL WEB TOUR COMPANIES

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