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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I have the purchase history to prove it. I talked too much.

Startup 180
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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. It would peak at around 200k queries per day sometime in 1999, before Napster came into the picture and killed ftp servers that shared mp3 files. It never ends, because technology changes fast. So what was 2look4? A few things.