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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

Act II was “revenge of the luddites” in which some local governments banned them and some annoyed citizens stole them or broke them. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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How technology can disrupt a Government.

Start Up Blog

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. A Government is just like a business in many ways. While the government is a monopoly in most of its realms, what if technology could assist us to ‘go around it’?

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Globalisation vs Nationalism – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

However, we can expect to see government interventions to secure supply chains and manufacturing returning to high-cost labour markets, facilitated by automation and increasingly protectionist policies. Even tomatoes weren’t used in Italian food during the Roman Empire – they arrived much later from South America!

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

Feld Thoughts

If you think that bankers and lawyers drive innovation, this is a “good thing”; otherwise, this is an utterly disastrous government-sanctioned redistribution of wealth that discourages software innovation. This, I think, will be the unintended consequence of Bilski and the alignment of the government against innovation in software.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Eureka was set up in 1985 as a legal framework allowing European companies to collaborate and receive government funding. The Albaugh acquisition gives Makhteshim a significant presence in North America and South America, low cost production sites, efficient supply chain, and access to large growers in the US Midwest.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. It seemed that back then the US government recognized the importance of attracting the best and brightest from around the world. My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America.

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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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