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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. The joint OpenMarket-MX Telecom business will provide a hosted platform to extend mobile payment and messaging capabilities through an integrated network and product portfolio.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. While Topshop have opened in Nordstrom.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. And then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. It was so amazing, like we were trying to send payments into Uruguay to pay people who are listening to their homes on Airbnb. I'm curious.

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