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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

US drug powerhouse Pfizer and Iceland-based Actavis were among the bidders in the final round, but Teva beat their offers. The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. Brazil is Israel’s largest trade partner in Latin America.

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Megaupload and the Future of Multi-tenant Services

Feld Thoughts

This is a draft post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. I continue to be stunned and amazed by both the behavior of our government around this and the behavior of “us” (companies and individuals) around their data given our government’s behavior.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.