Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2021

In a new book, “ The Unstoppable Startup ,” by Uri Adoni, a widely respected venture capitalist from Israel, I was pleased to see real specifics on how you can successfully demonstrate the right level of confidence and boldness, without stepping over the line into arrogance and insolence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

Germany, Ireland, Israel, and most other non-Asian nations also provide major tax incentives, and huge R&D tax credits. We now produce only 14% of the world’s supply of semiconductors, and even less of other things. We need to make a strong manufacturing base a national priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2018

For example , Starbucks’ first efforts to expand to Israel and the Middle East failed miserably due to a totally different “coffee culture” there, not accommodated adequately. But this doesn’t mean that you can treat the world as one big homogeneous market, ignoring the vastly different geographic cultures, economic, and political realities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Move your company to China, India, or Israel. Like angels, they like to touch and feel their investments. About half of the VC dollars and deals come from these two corridors, so it helps to be there. Amazingly, it you can’t be where VCs live, the next best thing is to be way out in the new frontiers of investment.

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