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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. Early-stage investors don’t read business plans. Even those who asked for them never read them. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class. Lessons Learned.

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How Israel and the Arab World Connect Through Technology

David Teten

Hybrid “is the most far-reaching, in-depth program for early-stage ventures led by Arabs in Israel. We start and fund early-stage companies, primarily in innovative medical devices and life sciences, and encourage Arab and Jewish entrepreneurship.” . How Do Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia?

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