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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But how does authority convert to revenue? The good news: There are good answers to these questions!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. a Cambridge company that manages Web traffic for some of the Internet’s biggest sites, is acquiring website and mobile acceleration technology vendor Cotendo. AKAMAI BUYS ISRAELI COTENDO FOR $268 MLN.