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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

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Today’s Market: A Bubble Waiting to Burst?

Growthink Blog

As detailed last week , since March 2009 the S&P index has almost tripled, while real estate prices are up 10.5% And a lot more of it comes from massive commodities-driven wealth in places like Russia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. And if so, when and how it will burst.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

FDI, M&A’s WEIGHED DOWN BY CRISIS IN 2009, UPTURN EXPECTED IN 2010. billion in 2009, compared with $10.8 63 Israeli companies were acquired or merged in 2009, a 28 percent drop from an average of 87 companies in the previous three years. The top ten deals in 2009 yielded 80 percent ($2.02 billion in 2008 and $8.8

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Adir: Currently, we acquire customers through face to face meetings and organically through the site.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Adir: Currently, we acquire customers through face to face meetings and organically through the site.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Adir: Currently, we acquire customers through face to face meetings and organically through the site.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The Swiss Institute for Management Development (IMD) ranked Israel 17th out of 58 of the world’s most economically developed nations in its 2010 World Competitiveness Yearbook, raising it by seven spots from its 2009 ranking. billion in 2009. TO LOWEST NUMBER SINCE JANUARY 2009. percent in 2009. It had sales of $2.2