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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

But I didn’t start immediately; I didn’t know optics well, and I assumed that if there was to be a technical solution it would come from somebody who did. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013. It really started in Boston.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. Mokady believes that partnering with a Boston-based VC would have helped CyberArk address its talent problems more effectively because the VC would have vouched for the company. Those that have are gold.