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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

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A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house. service.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

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See the October 2010 edition after the jump. ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. growth forecast for 2010 exports.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. the company raised a strong $3.3M

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Ok, I get a lot of these.

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Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011

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billion raised in 2010 and almost double from the $1.12 Companies have shifted from producing pure technology to producing consumer products. Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. million average in 2010.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Never Get Even, Get Ahead With a set of orders from brand name customers, we had growing confidence that we had achieved product/market fit. We were within three months of formally announcing our company and products at a major industry trade show. making use of non disclosure agreement is both expensive and counter productive.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

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CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s

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