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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

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Founding Date: 2009. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

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Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, from gay social network to design, we made the decision within 10 days to focus exclusively on our new One Thing, and we set a rule that not one person on the team could still do the old thing.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

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rise in 2009, while investment in fixed assets is estimated to grow 6.2% drop in 2009. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. Exports, which comprise more than 40% of Israel’s economic activity, had dropped 12.5%

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

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Do it yourself, Design it yourself, Distribute it yourself, 3D it yourself – in fact we can nearly make anything in home or certainly procure it via global production hubs like alibaba.com We can make anything because all the tools of production have been democratized for ever. It was anti-social in nature.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

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After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

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Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. 3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. IPgallery’s deployed converged communication solutions include core network centric solutions and Value Added Services for residential and business subscribers.

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