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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

The concept is that in the “information era&# the overwhelming majority of employees in the world have meaningless jobs pushing papers from one side of their desk to the other side from 9am to 5pm and really don’t have much of an impact on anything. Want to spend a year or more in Argentina? My 2 biggest positives: 1.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

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ISRAEL TO TRADE FREELY WITH MERCOSUR; ARGENTINA – ISRAEL SIGN FTA. Argentina became the last of the South American Mercosur trade block of four to sign a free trade agreement with Israel. Trade with Argentina, on the other hand, only reached $130 million due to high tariffs on Israeli goods there.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. Six months before starting our business, my wife and I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina with no solid plans, no place to live, and no jobs. If not, it’s time to get good at finding employees and hire an expert. We’d never hired anyone.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

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billion, plans to add Provigent’s employees to its Israeli R&D center. The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

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In the business-efficiency category, Israel scored very high in availability of skilled labor, finance skills, entrepreneurship of managers and venture capital. Comsys’ 80 employees will join Intel Israel’s R&D centers for wireless communications in Haifa and Petah Tikva.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Full-Time Employees, Freelancers (directly) or Contracts (through staffing companies) – This approach allows your company to maintain total control as it manages the fine details of the project.