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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL CORP UNIT TO BUILD $680 MLN PERU POWER STATION. Israel Corporation unit Cerro del Aguila SA has agreed to build a 510-megawatt hydroelectric power station in Peru at an investment of $680 million. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations.

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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

Only those women who are placed in jobs pay back to Laboratoria and they continue studying in Laboratoria while working, for 18 more months, further improving their technical and soft skills, and learning English, in order to have access to the global market. In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México.

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Via Codigo lays down it’s growth plan: Key Alliance with Transformify to Empower the Social and Labour Reintegration of Vulnerable Youth

Transformify

Thanks to key alliances with the Forge Foundation and the global recruitment platform Transformify , teenagers that go through their program, will broaden their job opportunities at an international level by applying to remote jobs. Also, the non-profit will start offering their program outside the juvenile detention centers.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life. Some of the largest global financial institutions are evaluating BlazingDB given that current market offerings simply cannot address the demands of large scale database processing.

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What Can A Startup Do in 5 days? Watch this

Steve Blank

Alivia – Telemedicine service bringing healthcare to middle income people in Peru. Voyage – Global travel advisory platform for pandemic information. Slides for these presentations are in this folder , and we will be editing and sharing videos of each presentation shortly. AntiCovidAI – Mobile app for testing COVID-19.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Thanks Swamykant www.yourdigitalspace.com Diego Ferreyra I personally work for a US based company from home, and I live in Peru. But it comes to the cost cutting, we have to opt Outsourcing, Offshoring and other stuffs. Nice Article. This is a US based staffing company that hires people in South Amercia to work offshore.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach.