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Invest in Israel Newsletter May 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in its 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Israel in the 17th place among the world’s 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness. Sony Classics bought the rights to distribute the film internationally.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Winding Tree

Austin Startup

Last summer, Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, joined the many airlines and hotels that have partnered with Switzerland-based Winding Tree to bypass intermediaries using distributed ledger technology. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

They improved their penetration of local and regional markets by adapting their products to the country or region. They let companies develop products to launch in world markets simultaneously. parent company while providing technical services for foreign customers. Innovation Outposts Are Moving To Innovation Clusters.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

what’s the product? what distribution channel? Joe Bingold (MBA, Jun 2011) Head of Product Development for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Control Systems, US Navy, MSME (Naval PGS), BSEE (MIT), P.E. Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world. I would focus on one category as Zappos did.

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The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. Many customers just don’t understand why they need an account to buy a product. Checkouts are for most designers much more dull to work on than product pages, home pages or new ad-campaigns.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create.