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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. 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.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Placement on the list was determined by a combination of the company’s G/SCORE assessment, stage and pace of growth, and business potential. GE, which entered the water industry in 1999 and is involved in a wide variety of water technologies, in the last five years doubled its investment in water technology related R&D to reach $1.5