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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. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – May 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. Great for them, good for Israel.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

Both Sides of the Table

You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space. Yeah, right.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. The company is focused on re-thinking software advertising, in particular download software and plugins. AfterDownload is essentially like an AdSense solution for software related products.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. The company is focused on re-thinking software advertising, in particular download software and plugins. AfterDownload is essentially like an AdSense solution for software related products.