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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. The Indians have a term for this: jugaad.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I need to confess, it wasn’t as easy as it looks to bystander, but we manage.

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Corporate Advisor and Lecturer Helping Connect Manufacturers to End Users

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As a result that led me to start my own business and co-write the bestseller, “ Unboss ”, because I felt like there was a need for organizations that were more independent and “free-spirited”. I am the founder of Tradeconductor.com – World peace through trade and CEO of GetCapitalAid.

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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

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I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. From then on I was forced to do detailed sales calls, get intimately involved with product management decisions and even make minute technical operation decisions. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new).

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

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Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

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This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”