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Growth Strategies of Israel’s Burgeoning Medical Device Sector.

Israel’s start-up community has gained wide recognition mainly because of entrepreneurs in the areas of communications, software, Internet and social media. Waze, a GPS application, made news because Google paid more than $1 billion for it. Trusteer — cyber security software — made similar headlines when IBM bought it for a similar sum.

Cómo empezó Pinterest o cómo un chico simplemente no renunció.

1. Ben estaba frustrado por hacer hojas de cálculo cada día en Google.

2. Trabaja en otros proyectos después del trabajo.

3. Hablaba muchísimo sobre el hecho de empezar una startup.

4. Su novia le dijo, sólo hazlo o deja de hablar sobre ello.

5. En mayo de 2008, decide dar el salto y deja Google.

6. No tenía grandes planes, solo buscaba ideas.

7. Encontró a Paul, un co-fundador.

8. Crearon una app que la llamaron Tote, que fracasó.

9. Cambiaron de idea: un nuevo sitio para coleccionar cosas.

10. Se les unió Evan, un tercer co-fundador. Ninguno de ellos era técnico.

11. Fueron rechazados por varios inversores.

12. Avergonzado por si tenía que volver a Google, Ben decidió continuar.

Israeli insulation keeps Whirlpool fridges frigid.

Israel’s Hanita Coatings plans to provide insulating materials for refrigerators made by the Whirlpool Corporation. The deal was announced on Tuesday. Whirlpool is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales of approximately $18 billion in 2012. The cooperation is made possible thanks to an investment by the US-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, which supports industrial research and development that benefits both Israel and the United States.

Will Tesla’s Driverless Car Be Powered By Israel’s Mobileye Technology?

ver secretly dreamed of owning a car like Kitt, David Hasselhoff’s awesome sidekick on wheels from the cult 80s TV series Knight Rider? Well, Premium electric car manufacturer Tesla is planning to put the first set of driverless cars on the road a mere decade from now, reportedly in collaboration with Israel’s collision avoidance technology Mobileye.

Tesla Motors, founded in 2003 by South African-born Canadian-American business magnate Elon Musk, designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and vehicle components. Musk’s other ventures include the universal payment system PayPal and space transport company SpaceX.

No driver – lower costs

Steve Blank on Building Great Founding Teams.

There's been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder, but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that's different from a great founding CEO. I think we've been imprecise in defining three different roles. In doing so we've failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Here are my definitions:

Founders -- the idea:

INSERTECek, LORAMENDIk eta TECNALIAk enpresa berri bat sortu dute galdaketaren sektorea bultzatzeko.

ILT Plasma Technologies-en bidez, hobekuntzak lortuko dira galdaketaren kalitatean, energia-errendimenduan eta instalazioen produktibitatean, berotze-sistema berritzaile baten bitartez.

APX Labs nabs $10 million to get Google Glass ready for business.

When is a battlefield like a factory floor? When you’re using enhanced reality headsets.

A Herndon, Virginia-based company that has focused on military applications for augmented reality has scored $10 million to expand the use of its software for Google Glass and Epson’s Moverio in the business world.

Corporate Acquisitions Of Startups -- Why Do They Fail?

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Lately the pressure of continuous disruption has forced them to step up the pace.

More often than not the results of these acquisitions are disappointing.

What can companies learn from others’ failed efforts to integrate startups into large companies? The answer - there are two types of integration strategies, and they depend on where the startup is in its lifecycle.

The Innovation Portfolio

An Easy Interface for the Internet of Things.

With the advent of the Internet of things, potentially billions of devices will report data about themselves, making it possible to create new applications in areas as diverse as factory optimization, car maintenance, or simply keeping track of your stuff online. But doing this today requires at least some degree of programming knowledge. Now Bug Labs, a New York City company, is trying to make it as easy to create an Internet of things application as it is to put a file into Dropbox.

Jornada sobre oportunidades en el sector de materiales composites canadiense

El sector canadiense de materiales composites es un sector maduro que alberga aproximadamente 300 empresas y 50.000 empleados. Este sector se está posicionando como exportador y líder en muchos mercados internacionales gracias a su potencial comercial y de innovación contando con fuertes clústeres como son el aeronáutico y el de automoción, sin olvidar el de energía eólica de más reciente crecimiento. Particularmente es en el sector aeronáutico, donde Canadá tiene una gran variedad de capacidades y aplicaciones para materiales composites que incluyen: aeroestructuras, motores de turbina de gas, y sistemas mecánicos como trenes de aterrizaje.