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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups.

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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

percent in 1998 to 7.7 While Indian developers had previously found themselves at the bottom of the pecking order, they are now often the top choice for software roles. Some industry insiders expect that there will be 10,000 SaaS startups from India in the coming decade, which means thousands upon thousands of new roles.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. Moshe says that the Israeli economy is in good shape and has momentum, yet has a cloudy forecast ahead of it.