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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL CORP UNIT TO BUILD $680 MLN PERU POWER STATION. Israel Corporation unit Cerro del Aguila SA has agreed to build a 510-megawatt hydroelectric power station in Peru at an investment of $680 million. ISRAELI START-UP WAZE DRAWS INVESTMENT FROM CHINESE BILLIONAIRE.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

As mentioned in previously Spotlights, my goals are: Working with and investing in stellar teams delivering true vision with compelling products to paying customers for MEANINGFUL results. When the market could not a deliver product to meet their needs, Felipe was left with only one option, build it himself.

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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." Obviously, I release products at my job. So you can't really jump into models.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Although some startups were not well thought through most were up to Silicon Valley standards in terms of quality of ideas, scalability, product and execution. Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS.