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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

Filipinos come a very close second at 79-percent, followed by Russia (60-percent). When asked to name the gadget they could not live without, 43-percent said their smartphone, another 43-percent voted their PC or laptop. The quantitative research was conducted online between June and July 2011.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India. Tech companies generate a lot of buzz.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

Step 1: Type your brand name, and your direct competitor, into the Search Terms area of Insights for Search. It used to fall behind lag the other two in brand queries, but you can see how starting late 2009 (bad year for Target in this context) Amazon overtook Target and now (2011, 2012) is casting a big shadow over Target.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

Tamara’s name is synonymous with technology and marketing. She was named one of Forbes top 30 Women Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter and ranked as one of the 200 Most Fearless Women Online in Social Media. She has also authored many best-selling books for Amazon on sales, marketing, entrepreneurship and small businesses.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76 Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. SHUTTERFLY ACQUIRES ISRAELI PHOTO SOFTWARE COMPANY PHOTOCCINO.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

thenextweb.com

Soon afterwards though, Infogami was to become part of Reddit under the name Not A Bug, and Aaron would help to build Reddit into what it is today. The team left Amazon after a few years to found CupidsPlay, a social gaming site that launched early 2011 which has since been acquired by Zynga. Latin America. Middle East.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

MONOCLE MAGAZINE NAMES HAIFA INVESTMENT HOTSPOT. Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. TEVA CEO RANKED 20TH ON FORTUNE LIST.