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There's so many israeli software companies I have never heard of. It is truly a startup nation.

by mathverse 4y ago

capableweb 4y ago
Do you know particularly few Israeli companies compared to lets say South African or Polish companies? Wouldn't that just mean it's not a "startup nation" as if it was, you would have heard about those companies? Your reasoning here seems backwards.
- mathverse 4y ago
  Bad wording on my part but there's a lot of israeli companies i have never heard of on top of THAT MANY i have. There's prominent israeli startups and unicorns you usually know about like Wix or some old ones like (ICQ/Mirabilis) and then there's a myriad of small ones you stumble upon because they are in your domain area like logz.io. But then you hear about a company with like 1k employees and you are like...wth.
- CharlesW 4y ago
  > Do you know particularly few Israeli companies compared to lets say South African or Polish companies? "Startup nation" has been a well-known nickname for Israel for some time. On a per-capita basis, Israel excels at both the number of startups created and the amount of capital that they attract. "A striking conclusion is that on a per capita basis, capital flows into Israel were a whopping 28 times more than those in the U.S." — https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/why-israel-drew-28-times-more-venture-capital-per-capita-than-us.html https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/why-israel-drew-28-times-mor...
keewee7 4y ago
They also have many hardware companies. It's almost an annual thing that some megacorp buys an Israeli hardware or semiconductor company. We used to have a good hardware startup ecosystem in Denmark because former Giga employees had more money than they knew what to do with after Intel bought Giga in 2000. However it slowly burned out for some reason. Maybe the 2008 crisis had something to do with it.

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There's so many israeli software companies I have never heard of. It is truly a startup nation.

by mathverse 4y ago

There's so many israeli software companies I have never heard of. It is truly a startup nation.

capableweb 4y ago
Do you know particularly few Israeli companies compared to lets say South African or Polish companies? Wouldn't that just mean it's not a "startup nation" as if it was, you would have heard about those companies? Your reasoning here seems backwards.
- mathverse 4y ago
  Bad wording on my part but there's a lot of israeli companies i have never heard of on top of THAT MANY i have. There's prominent israeli startups and unicorns you usually know about like Wix or some old ones like (ICQ/Mirabilis) and then there's a myriad of small ones you stumble upon because they are in your domain area like logz.io. But then you hear about a company with like 1k employees and you are like...wth.
- CharlesW 4y ago
  > Do you know particularly few Israeli companies compared to lets say South African or Polish companies? "Startup nation" has been a well-known nickname for Israel for some time. On a per-capita basis, Israel excels at both the number of startups created and the amount of capital that they attract. "A striking conclusion is that on a per capita basis, capital flows into Israel were a whopping 28 times more than those in the U.S." — https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/why-israel-drew-28-times-more-venture-capital-per-capita-than-us.html https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/why-israel-drew-28-times-mor...
keewee7 4y ago
They also have many hardware companies. It's almost an annual thing that some megacorp buys an Israeli hardware or semiconductor company. We used to have a good hardware startup ecosystem in Denmark because former Giga employees had more money than they knew what to do with after Intel bought Giga in 2000. However it slowly burned out for some reason. Maybe the 2008 crisis had something to do with it.