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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

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He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. Then Lokesh Parakh discussed a consulting service that he and his five colleagues are trying to pull together in the pre-paid card business, helping non-banking financial institutions launch card services in South Asia. We have to work on that!

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8

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Invest in Israel Newsletter August 2010 Edition

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Medical product giant Baxter International and Israeli biopharmaceutical company Kamada entered into a definitive distribution agreement for Glassia, the first and only liquid, ready-to-use Alpha1-Proteinase inhibitor that treats genetic lung-damaging disorder alpha-1 antitryspin (AAT). Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). By Nathaniel Mott. Brag, Israel!