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Start-up Nation : The Story of Israel's Economic MiracleThanks to Dov Frohman, Eitan Wertheimer, and many others, the question of catastrophic risk, for investors and multinationals looking to do business in Israel, is virtually irrelevant. CHAPTER 10 Yozma The Match John Lennon once said about the early years of rock and roll, БЂњBefore Elvis, there was nothing.БЂ«On the success of venture capital and high-tech entrepreneurship in Israel, to paraphrase Lennon, before Yozma, there was nothing. БЂ”ORNA BERRY ORNA BERRYБЂ™S SON, Amit, delivered what would be the $32 million message. Amit had retrieved the voice-mail message for his mom. A vice president from Siemens, the German telecommunications conglomerate, had called. Orna Berry, away on yet another trip abroad to pitch her start-up to bigger companies looking to buy, had missed the call. The message from Siemens marked the beginning of a process that culminated in the first acquisition of an Israeli start-up by a European company. The transaction was finalized in 1995. Though today itБЂ™s a pretty commonplace eventБЂ”Europeans have invested hundreds of millions of euros in Israeli companiesБЂ”in 1995, for an Israeli start-up to be acquired by a European company was unheard-of ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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