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Raising Money: What are you optimizing for?

This is going to be BIG.

If you’re Martin Blank , and you need to kill the President of Paraguay, you might need to use a fork. I know that if I go with the right investment partners and they help me build a better business over time, whatever dilution I take in the first round is going to wash out over time when I’m raising at higher valuations later.

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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. Brazil is Israel’s largest trade partner in Latin America. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6

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