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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

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva gave Israeli President Shimon Peres his final approval for a free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay). Brazil is Israel’s largest trade partner in Latin America.

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