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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Things like YouTube, Cloud, and self-driving cars. Managing 10,000 virtual servers in the Cloud Era sounds easy. At nearly $100B/year in revenue, Google can only consider products which have the potential to generate $1B/year in revenue as an absolute floor, with the potential to grow to $10B/year if things go better than expected.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

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R&D centers established in the center of the country will receive government support of about 19 million shekels ($5.1 SANRAD, founded in 2000, designs cutting-edge cloud storage acceleration and virtualization software and hardware for datacenters.

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Accel 2020 Euroscape: "Decacorn Unleashed"? - Apply Now!

Cracking the Code

When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

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Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. The government will pay 40 percent of the wages of employees, up to a maximum wage of 25,000 shekels ($7,000) per month, during the first year of operation of the Barclays center.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

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Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

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1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc. New vistas of opportunities would also be developed as Cloud technologies change the way businesses operate.