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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. The ministers also unanimously approved Steinitz’s proposal to implement a calculation system that would increase the government’s annual expense rate from 1.7%

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. While Topshop have opened in Nordstrom.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? And then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. It was so amazing, like we were trying to send payments into Uruguay to pay people who are listening to their homes on Airbnb.

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