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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Kooply , a game development engine in stealth, was of the 20 winners of the 2024 Game Changers list by Lightspeed Ventures. It can now be used to track players in official games.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. The teams out of top engineering schools like Stanford, CMU, MIT, Virginia Tech, and others that competed in the DARPA Challenges in 2004 / 2005 / 2007 now make up the backbone of the R&D teams for most of the commercial efforts in this space.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Berkeley as an Air Force ROTC scholarship cadet, I began a decade of military aviation service that turned this child of immigrants who barely traveled into an aircrew member and global citizen who were deployed to and lived on four continents in that time. Thanks to Graciela Tiscareno-Sato, Gracefully Global Group LLC ! #16-

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. What type of business would benefit from global systemic inflation if and when that hits? We are in this in-between stage right now.

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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Medicine is global, and as we see right now, global health is just as vital as personal health. KevinMD – KevinMD is a website founded in 2004 by physician Kevin Pho. Did you know that the world’s second-largest search engine is actually YouTube? making waves across the platforms; the medical professionals.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. We lost the campaign badly , but we won a major battle on The Frontier of Global Politics in the age of the Internet. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of. This s**t isn’t easy.

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