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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP – Israel ranks 2nd globally in this metric, following closely after South Korea. Israeli tech companies using billboards in busy roads to attract tech talent. SPACs have backfired.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Sales pipeline/forecast. Whatever assessment you develop, you need to get feedback from your board and investors. I listened in on a board call with an enterprise software company this week, and when the CEO said, “Our VP of sales assured me our pipeline won’t be affected.” Internal Assessment. Operating Numbers.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform. To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link. I would go to Mars because I’m curious to see how society develops. Why or why not?

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5 Singapore Industries In Which To Get Rich

YoungUpstarts

Sales management. Many people don’t think of sales jobs as being especially lucrative. What they should remember is that sales jobs will often be more or less lucrative depending on the state of the local economy and the nature of the market. The question is: do you have the right timing? Biotechnology.

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

Very smart people are running these online video businesses and they know that they need to diversify by either creating or sponsoring the development of new content. Hulu announced $500 million to fund new content and Netflix has, for example, resurrected the hit / cult show Arrested Development. People are developing global tastes.

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What Do Increased Mobile Speeds Mean for Your Business?

Up and Running

Because time is money, and in a mobile workforce, that spells sales gained. The networks in Hong Kong, Denmark, Canada, Australia, South Korea and Germany all performed better. Mobile Speeds. By mid-2012, 26.5 million people were subscribing to 4G LTE (long-term evolution) services, according to industry experts IDATE.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

An EU memo in 2010 stated the following discoveries: In the EU (but also in Japan and South Korea) the preference for being an employee is mainly motivated by considerations of stability (regular income, stable employment relation) and by the generally agreeable employment conditions (working hours, social protection).

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