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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Instagram launched into a community of influential design oriented Twitter users, which allowed it to generate 25K downloads on launch day as it reveal in this excellent video. Russia, with its 145M population has been providing 21 percent of our downloads ever since, and it is our second largest market after the US to date.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. The volume of trade (excluding diamonds) between Israel and Russia in the first nine months of 2010 totalled $711 million.