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DECEMBER 18, 2009

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). iScraper Israel shut down and another UK competitor took on their UK assets). There was only once in my career where I actually thought that I was going to go bankrupt. Any customer not willing to commit we didn’t sign.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. And Israel felt like home to me – somewhere familiar. It turned into this blog. Here’s a personal story. I felt I had missed out on something.

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MARCH 1, 2011

The founders of Quigo ( an enterprise search company based in Israel that was competing directly with AdSense ) tracked Mike down while doing a CEO search. The secret to the software sales process. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ).

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space. We were launching a cloud-based document management into a space that was increasingly being called Enterprise 2.0.

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