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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

www.ere.net

Instead, recruiters (or your employees through the referral program) will have to identify them, contact them, build a relationship, and eventually convince them to apply through direct sourcing. Primary sourcing: Employee referral program implementation. Sales and Guest Relations Manager for CIS, Eastern Europe & Greece.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Greece) might attempt a half-crazy experiment like this.

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Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired.

Occam's Razor

That gives you short term acquisition quality, you can then move to long term quality by focusing on metrics like lifetime value. It incentivises sub optimal behavior in your employees/agencies. Don't start with LTV, it is hard. Use the step by step process above. And you'll get promoted.

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