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8 Dec 2020
Board work is often perceived as “overhead” for many startup CEOs, who basically want to deal as little as possible…
20 May 2020
As the dust settles on crisis management, we have more energy to devote to thinking about what society, technology, and…
20 Apr 2020
Viola Ventures General Partner Ronen Nir has been keeping a daily calendar tracking the impact of COVID-19 and the Israeli…
12 Apr 2019
This is definitely one of the most emotional post I have written in a long time! Yesterday, SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI)…
29 Jan 2019
When Co-founder and CEO of Verbit.ai, Tom Livne, came to see me for the first time in 2016, he pitched…
6 Aug 2018
20 minutes into my first meeting with Limor Schweitzer, the founder of MOV.AI, I already knew this is going to…
27 Jul 2018
One of the most discussed topics among SaaS companies is how salespeople should be compensated. To see where Israeli startups…
17 May 2018
The second ever Israel Growth Summit (2018) took place in Tel Aviv in May, co-hosted once again by Viola and…
13 Jun 2017
In B2B companies, so much rides on achieving an optimal sales funnel, that if there’s a point in that funnel…
10 Oct 2016
We have just returned from this year’s Dreamforce ‘16 in San Francisco. In an impressive feat, Salesforce managed to bring…
6 Oct 2016
Dev tools are not sexy. They are generally practical tools built solely to increase the productivity of development organizations and…
21 Feb 2016
It seems that the tides are changing super-fast these days, with the entire industry replacing “growth at all costs” with…
16 Feb 2016
After reading quite a few end-of-year summaries about the state of the “Startup Nation” in 2015, a few conclusions stood…
11 Nov 2015
It’s budget season and many companies are in the process of setting their goals for 2016. Whether a “correction” in…
21 Oct 2015
Last week’s announcement of the acquisition of EMC by Dell in what’s turning out to be the largest ever merger…
12 Oct 2015
In many of my meetings with early stage companies, somewhere around the middle of the discussion when we move from…
28 Apr 2015
Whenever I work with our SaaS portfolio companies I notice that nothing stirs up more emotions (both good and bad)…
1 Mar 2015
One of the most annoying terms I come across every day is “SMB”. With the introduction of cloud and mobile,…
23 Dec 2014
As with many other verticals, IT management and core business applications are also quickly moving from the old on-premise licensing…
