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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. So is the internet. CellBuddy - Company Website. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Mark Bao at Junior Biz , Feb.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare).

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NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

View from Seed

Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. The internet has disrupted stock brokerage (E*Trade), payments (PayPal, Stripe), and lending (LendingClub, OnDeck, et al), but little innovation has happened in insurance. We want to do more! leehower | LinkedIn. Tim Devane. tdevane | LinkedIn. Sector #1: Intelligence Augmentation.

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