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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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And of course many of you know this is near and dear to me because my own father is from Medellín, Colombia so I grew up in a household with the music, food, culture and language of South America. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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30 Entrepreneurs Describe The Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) For Their Business

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And while our platform is currently limited to the United States, my goal is to expand our search algorithm and resource database into spanning the entire world, be it in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, etc. This is to improve commercial spend efficiency, lower customer acquisition costs, and boost net retention rates.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Domain Name/Basic Site. Mexico/Central America.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

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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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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

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Albaugh, which was founded in 1979, has six plants in the US, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, and a joint venture in China, and its South American sales in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile complement Makhteshim’s business in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. 8 ISRAELI START-UPS NAMED RED HERRING 100 WINNERS. percent in 2011.

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Bitesize Monday: eToro, Covertix, Iway, Tawkon, Grouper….

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Israeli startup acquisitions. A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. founding rounds raised by eToro, Covertix, Playcast Media and Omek Interactive, product launches by Tawkon, acquisition by Groupon and much more.