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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. Israel offers a pool of developers unlike anywhere else in the world thanks to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

techcrunch.com

At the same time, Goodman says he wants Bright to go broader than its own website, possibly by partnering with other hiring products like Taleo and Jobvite. Steeped in data science, Bright eliminates the noise in the hiring process by efficiently connecting job seekers to their best opportunities, and employers to their top prospects.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

That mind-expanding career led me to work for global companies after I left the service – a multinational corporation headquartered in Munich, Germany and a startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The very thing that made them “professional” also made them forgettable and less likely to be hired again over someone else.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

Nothing says more about your culture than who you hire, who you fire, and who you promote. Debra and I recently went to Israel for the first time and we found it to be very similar?—?because For example, I hired three CFOs in six years. Or the time that we faced the Great Recession and stopped hiring to protect our people.

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