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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S. Cohen said that moving the headquarters to the United States had been talked about for some time after the company was founded, in 1999.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Thats the reason you have a board," Mr. Walker explains. "We We both win if we work together.