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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. Three of them were sold.”

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. I talked too much.

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