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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. Go out halfway to nowhere on your milestones, or having a prior round that was raised so high that you couldn’t fulfill your promise, and expect your next financing to be a really tough slog. might play a factor.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

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Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. “Israel is known for its strong capabilities in technology and science. Electronics components maker TTI Inc, a Berkshire Hathaway company, bought Net-Aye Technologies Ltd.,

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