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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate And speaking of capitalism, George Papandreou’s, the former Prime Minister of Greece and the poster child for the European economic crisis, TED Global talk is already live. I served as Chairman leading up to the acquisition.]

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

Agile VC

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. Greece) might attempt a half-crazy experiment like this. Previous Entries.

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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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