Resources from Israel and Around the World

On this page you will find critical information and advice from Israeli and global experts that will make all the difference for you.
​Check back often for links to important new articles.

​Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 17 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches and messages. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive to results. Through her guidance, clients have raised over a billion dollars.
To learn more, visit DonnaGriffit.com 
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Donna's Guides
- Ultimate Investor Deck    
- Ultimate Sales Deck
- Ultimate Competition Deck
- Ultimate List of Every Investor Question You Need to be Able to Answer
- Ultimate Guide on How to Find an Investor and Get a Meeting
​- Ultimate Guide to Talking About Your Competition
​- Ultimate Guide to Talking to Investors About Your Clients
- Ultimate Market Analysis Slide
- Ultimate Guide to Secrets from the Boardroom: What VCs Say After You Leave
- Ultimate Guide to Secrets from the Boardroom 2: The Investors Keep Talking

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Eze Vidra  is co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Previously he was a general partner at Google Ventures, Head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding Head of Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups. Prior to Google, Eze held product management leadership positions at Shopping.com, Ask.com, GLG and AOL in New York, San Francisco, and Tel Aviv. Remagine Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund investing at the intersection of tech, entertainment, gaming and commerce with a spotlight on Israel.
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Eze's Posts
- Take Five - How Shut Are The Venture Markets Right Now?
- Is Your Startup Suffering from a Dysfunctional Team?
- The Opportunities for Creative Automation
- Creator Economy Opportunities for Startups
- The 2021 Israeli Unicorn Map
- The State of Creative Automation
- How to Get Your Mobile App Discovered in 2021
- RaisingMoney Smartly
- Monetisation is the Key to Unlock the Second Renaissance in the Creator Economy
- Israeli Startup Landscape Maps (Updated April 2021)
- Israeli Startups and Marketing - 5 Questions with an Experienced CMO
- The Creator Economy - Who Are They, What Do They Do and How Do They Make Money?
​- Five Advancements Powering the Future of Content Creation
- What is "Firgun" and Why Should You Embrace It
​- The Most Important 2021 Predictions in Entertainment Tech and Gaming
- How Can Startups Engage Amazon and AWS Across Investment, Partnerships and Support

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Martin Zwilling is the CEO & Founder of Startup Professionals, Inc., helping startup founders find resources, mentoring, and expertise, build a business plan, file patents, and find funding. He has 30+ years of experience and demonstrated results as an executive in Software Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing; has done due diligence and funding analysis for investors; is an Advisory Board Member for multiple startups; has Angels Selection Committee experience; and is an Adjunct Professor at Embry-Riddle University. He has been published on Inc., Forbes, Entrepreneur and Huffington Post. Feel free to follow him on Twitter, StartupPro, or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Martin's Posts
- Search Engine Ranking Can Make or Break Your Business
​- 6 Key Rules to Stay Competitive in the Digital World
- 6 Keys to Recognizing Business Bubbles Ready to Burst
- 7 Strategies for Making a Mentoring Relationship Work
- 7 New Venture Strategies Improve the Odds of Survival
- 9 Crucial Elements of Every New Venture Funding Pitch
- 6 Ways to Increase Your Thinking Power on Key Issues
- 10 Ways Leaders Must Change as the Business Matures
- 6 Keys to Finding the Right People for a Winning Team
​- 7 Ways to Keep All Players Centered on What Matters
​- 6 Ways to Improve Your Chances of New Venture Success
- 10 Strategies for Boosting Your Productivity at Work

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​Sramana Mitra is Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), a global virtual accelerator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy, and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. Sramana has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2015, Sramana was named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Influencers.
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Sramana's Posts
- Bootstrapping Power2Motivate to $80M from Canada
- Entrepreneur Couple Bootstrapped to $10M from Colorado
- Bootstrapping Using Facebook Ads to $5M: Dow Janes, Part 1
. Bootstrapping to an Exit
. Why is Bootstrapping Important?
. How Can You Play this Low-Probability Game Intelligently?
. Do NOT Go to VCs as Beggars - Go as Kings
. Excess is NOT Required for Success
. Bootstrap First and Raise Money Later
. Some Bootstrapping to Exit Case Studies
. The Buy Side of Bootstrapping to an Exit
. Blitzscaling vs. Bootstrapping
. Bootstrapping to Unicorns

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Ori Ainy, the Founder of Beam Global, helps B2B software and startup companies penetrate global markets and successfully compete with global corporations. Ori advises on international marketing, sales, and bus dev and provides sales execution services, including recruitment of channel partners. He lectures on international marketing for the Export Institute, consults for the Foreign Trade Administration, and is a mentor and judge at MassChallenge. He holds an MBA from the Hebrew University.
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Ori's Posts
- Should B2B Software Companies Publish Their Prices Online?
​- What are the Leading Websites for the B2B Software Field and What Characterizes Each of Them? 
- Six B2B Targeting Methods Based on Customer Segmentation
- The Ultimate Question in Int'l Marketing: Focus on One Country or Many?
- Software Enterprise Sales: Tips for Successful Preparation
​- Is Your Marketing Strategy Based on Your B2B Software Features?
​- Can Flexibility Be a Marketing Strategy?
Webinars & Seminars
- Pricing B2B Software & SaaS Products for Global Success
- Closing the Bigger Deals in Global Markets
- B2B Videos: Your Missing Piece for Global Expansion
Fireside Chat Series
- Twik: Personalization
- PractiTest: QA Software
- Radix: Software Solutions
- Niloosoft: Cloud Recruitment
- Perimeter81: Cybersecurity

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Tim Berry is founder and chairman of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, book and software author, blogger, angel investor.
His website is timberry.com and he also maintains leanplan.com about lean business planning and blogs at blog.timberry.com. He’s involved in a social mediavstartup  havepresence.com.  You can contact Tim here: [email protected]
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Tim's Posts
- ​10 Good Reasons Not to Seek Investors For Your Startup 
- ​What Makes a Successful Pitch 
- ​Top 10 Pitch Fails 
- Looking ​for Investment? Understand Startup Valuation 
- ​​Angel Investment vs. Bootstrap: Startup Sweet Spot
​- 10 Things Angel Investors Ask About Startups
- ​10 Tips on How to Protect a Software Idea 
- 10 Clues That You Aren’t a Leader 
- Top 10 Entrepreneurship Skills
- 7 Very Common False Assumptions in Entrepreneurship
- ​5 Most Important Illusions About Startups 
- ​You Have to Know When to Quit 
- ​How to Forecast Cash Flow

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Michael Bassin, the Co-Founder and CEO of ScaleUpSales,  helps companies acquire new customers and grow their revenue with a proven lead generation and a sales enablement service. Michael’s expertise includes building sales and marketing systems from scratch, demand generation, sales pitch and content creation, sales training and team building, research and analysis, CRM building and optimization, and sales reporting. He is also an author and public speaker on the modern Middle East. 
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ScaleUpSales’ Posts 
- ​How to Create a Sales Pitch 
- ​How to Optimize Your B2B Sales Process 
- ​How to Find Relevant Sales Prospects 
- ​How to Do Lead Generation on LinkedIn 
- ​How to Find B2B Leads  
- ​How to Define Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) 
- ​How to Create a Compelling Ad 
- ​How to Land in Your Audience’s Inbox 
- ​How to Write a B2B Cold Email 
​- ​How to Re-Engage a Prospect Gone Cold 
- ​How to Conduct a Sales Conversation 

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