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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Israeli startups deliver #NoMatterWhat I’ve started VC Cafe in December of 2004. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

From then on, every harvest he’d pack into the bike and trek over 40 miles away to Melbourne to sell. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history. I remember one particularly bad year where sales of fruit and veg were at an all-time low.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. I took this picture of Rob, Michael Galpert, and Danny Wen of Harvest. In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. That was the year Twitter took off.

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Calling Entrepreneurs: Huge Markets in Lab Grown Meats

Campus Entrepreneurship

In 2004, a group of researchers started the non-profit organization New Harvest , with the goal of promoting research into in vitro meat. From the New Harvest website: One novel line of research is to produce meat in vitro, in a cell culture, rather than from an animal. Benjaminson from Touro College. [

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. My parents did not wish to see me as struggling artists and thus I was enrolled in Bachelor of Business course in Australia. 23) 3 Reasons.