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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

A s every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. ISRAEL’S WEF RANKING IMPROVES TO 24TH PLACE, BOOSTED BY INNOVATION.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Techstars IoT (NYC).

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Lowground Records was the easiest business I have ever named and I knew the name fit the second my business partner said it. That mind-expanding career led me to work for global companies after I left the service – a multinational corporation headquartered in Munich, Germany and a startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

techcrunch.com

At the same time, Goodman says he wants Bright to go broader than its own website, possibly by partnering with other hiring products like Taleo and Jobvite. Lead ASP.NET MVC Web Developer confidential Mobile App Developer WCNC-TV UI Engineers Meetup Product Designers Meetup Software Engineer Mobile Dev Yelp Inc.

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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. My partners are making all that possible, it’s pure teamwork.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company. Debra and I recently went to Israel for the first time and we found it to be very similar?—?because investors, employees, clients, and partners. in our Series A. I believe the U.S.

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