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Israeli Innovations

My interest in Israeli Innovations got triggered after reading a Forbe's interview with Erel Margalit  who is the founder and head of JVP, Jerusalem Venture Partners ( http://www.jvpvc.com/ ) , a leading Israeli venture capital firm dedicated to building world class media technology companies. Established in 1993, JVP now has over $900 million under management and is investing in 35 companies.  I have summarized here two insights that I picked up by reading his 7 Golden Rules for Entrepreneurs  http://www.forbes.com/sites/ricardogeromel/2012/06/19/erel-margalit-israel-vc-7-golden-rules-to-entrepeneurs/               1. Engineers alone won’t make it. We need to put engineers together with writers, storytellers, advertising people, artists… an army of engineers alone can’t succeed. To create, it is better to be around people with different mindsets. It’s not just a world where an engineer meets another engineer, it’s a wo...