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This week I got to hang out at one of the Singularity University sessions with Vivek Wadwha and I saw a talk on cyber crime that completely blew my mind. Not startup related but if you’re interested in this kind of stuff check out this video. I have a whole new perception on privacy and security now.

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How do new businesses get ahead in the “Money Game”? Navigating the growing startup financing landscape is the focus of the latest animated video from the Kauffman Foundation’s sketchbook series. Watch “Money Game,” where Kauffman Senior Fellow Paul Kedrosky breaks down the methods entrepreneurs use to raise capital, and the benefits—and hazards—of each.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

A heavy and emotional post about the lows of startup life by Ben Huh, previously founder of a failed startup, now founder of the Cheezburger Network.

 

 

A firey post on why programming can be for anyone if you are really interested in learning. The site is a little confusing but if you’re interested in learning to program the free book starts here.

 

A very tactical post on how to respond to investor emails. Much of this also goes for responding to intro’s in general.

 

An older post about the different stages of a company’s growth and the different people needed at each stage.

 

It’s easy to blame external factors for your company or product not succeeding. It’s even harder to take responsibility and action to make it better.

 

The video was taken at Hackers and Founders to answer the question what is marketing and why is it important? Rand Fishkin is a co-founder of SEOmoz, one of the largest SEO and inbound marketing companies.

 

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Below is an archived version of the Israel StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Israel. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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For newcomers: The Israel StartupDigest is a weekly events list of interest to Israeli entrepreneurs, curated by local entrepreneurs. We don’t cover every event — we handpick only the best ones. Are there events I missed, events I included that aren’t of interest, or upcoming events you’d like me to include? Drop me a line at yaniv@thestartupdigest.comfor any feedback, questions, or ideas.Yaniv

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Yaniv Feldman – Editor-in-Chief, Newsgeek Israel

 

 

What’s Going on in Israel’s Startup Community

How an Android Phone Helped Me Win American Idol – Trends and Tricks in Security
When: Sun Nov 27, 6:00pm
Where: Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineeringת Bnei Ephraim 218, Tel Aviv

Our guest for the evening is Mr. Elad Shapira, a mobile Security researcher from AVG Mobilation, who specializes in Reverse Engineering and Penetration Testing. “The lecture will enable a rare glimpse into the workings of hackers, when moving rapidly through a wide range of topics by using examples and stories of personal experience — All in a wild and fun atmosphere but with a serious, in-depth and “out-of-the-box” perspective. We will discuss and show updated android related attacks, reversing tools and malware analysis methodology, android internals and terminology, android forensics methdology and cool stuff you can do with your phone.”

 

Shaked Simchi and Uriel Elster from Outbrain will talk about UX development in Continuous Deployment environment. Ori Lahav Will talk about monitoring under Continuous Deployment. Omri Nachman from Wix will talk about Test Driven development in the HTML world.

 

Dear Tweeps & Tweepettes, Time for another #TLVtweetup, the last one for 2011 and we have a special guest. Shel Israel (@shelisrael) is visiting Israel and will be joining us for the evening. Startups, Shel will be very happy to meet and chat, so save the date. You are welcome to visit Shel’s blog here. We’re meeting at our usual spot, the Dancing Camel. Event hashtag is #TLVtweetup If you need a ride or can offer one, please write on the event page or tweet with the hashtag.

 

Tools of the perl, a quick survey of 4 modules (by Erez Schatz) We will cover four modules that make the life of a Modern Perl developer much easier than it used to be: local::lib, cpanm, perlbrew, pm-uninstall. DBIx::Class and ORMs (by Erez Schatz) What is an ORM, why do we need it, and what does DBIx::Class bring to the table for perl programmers at large. Firebird: a database that does not burn your data (by ik) An introduction to the Firebird database and why it is so highly-regarded by those who use it.

 

This session will talk about the whole funnel starting the free trial (or freemium) account till a customer becomes a paying user from a marketing, sales and product aspects. Marketing — Customer value, attract qualified leads and keep CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) lower than CLTV (Customer Lifetime Value) Sales — Ensure customer success, increase retention and reduce churn Product — Follow business metrics, interpret to user behaviour trends and make the necessary changes in your web application.

 

“Like for Israel Hackathon” is bringing developers and designers together to contribute their magic and creating pro Israel mobile and web applications. Calling teams and individual developers, designers and UX wizards to take part in the first ever “Hack for Israel” weekend.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

December 7 – 4G Israel
December 8 – The Gifts Project: story of a lean startup
December 11 – How do you know if you are fundable?