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Groupon Getting Pummeled Daily in the Israeli Deal Market, BUY2 Leads

VC Cafe

According to daily deal aggregator site Tavo.co.il , BUY2 has a 17% Israeli coupon market share, and Deal Hayom has 7%. BUY2 is owned by Netex and Mako, which are part of the Keshet Media Group, one of Israel’s largest media companies. A major aspect of the Israeli daily deal space are the daily deal aggregators.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Originally from California, she now lives in Paris, where her involvement in the vibrant startup scene keeps her from spending too much time in the bakeries. The name is a bit misleading - you don't actually have to be young, but your project does. Cap Digital and System@tic are among a number of tech clusters in Paris.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

STANLEY FISCHER NAMED WORLD’S TOP BANK GOVERNOR FOR 2010. Euromoney magazine, a leading international banking, finance and capital markets news publication, named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer the world’s best bank governor for 2010 for his leadership of Israel’s economy in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

My parents and my brother live in Southern California. She, by the way, was busy on social media. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that. So I'm lucky to have that.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths.