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Thanks for this question.I've answered it a couple of times for international delegations that visited either of the Venture Capital funds I worked/work for.This is a good opportunity to answer it on Quora as well.It's a unique combo:1. Israel is an immigrant country - Much like the U.S, the Israeli human landscape is a combination of various cultures, various schools of thought and approaches and - as such - is a breeding ground for new takes on a matter.This was part of the United States secret sauce.2. Necessity is the mother of invention - Unique needs in the security, agriculture, energy, and other sectors brought about the birth of inventions in military, communications, medicine, irrigation, solar energy fields - you name it.3. Education - From its inception Israel has put an emphasis on the importance of education: From Elementary to Academic - and in spite of its small size, it holds some of the world's leading academic institutions.4. Investment in innovation - 5% of Israel's GDP is invested into the private sector through various plans and grants of the Office of the Chief Scientist in the ministry of Economy - No country in the world comes close to this percentage.From as early as seed stage companies, to as far as publicly traded technology companies, Israeli tech innovators enjoy these grants and investments, aimed at increasing the amount of Israeli Intellectual Property and successful tech companies.But it doesn't end there.ALL major global tech companies have R&D centers in Israel : Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, Facebook - you name it: They're here. And it's a win-win situation.Also, approximately 80% of the private investments made into Israeli startups comes from overseas.This is on top of a vibrant, and experienced Israeli Venture Capital ecosystem, which is now entering it's third decade.5. The IDF technologies - Tech developments for special forces, air force, ground forces, navy etc., later find their way into private market applications, giving the companies a unique edge over global competitors. Given Imaging is a great example.6. Unique intelligence and data tech capabilities - The Mossad, Military Intel, Cyber warfare units, other agencies - No need to elaborate on the fact that some of the best - if not the best - minds in intelligence work for Israel. Young Israelis undergo unparalleled training and engage in sci-fi like activities.Then they leave the service.Now what do you think they're going to do?7. The military service - By definition, the fact that at a young age an Israeli has to learn what responsibility means, what challenges are, what a mature set of proportions is, molds many Israelis into potential entrepreneurs and leaders. (see comment by Ahuvah Berger-Burcat for elaboration on this)8. Local market too small - From day 1 Israeli startups think globally. There is no point in aiming for the local market. It's tiny.You aim for the needs of the giants.BTW - many Israeli solutions are aimed at giving the little guy a chance to play in the big league, and it makes perfect sense in light of the above - they invented the tools THEY needed: Fiverr, EatWith, DubaMobile, Wix.9. "Chutzpa" - It's a Hebrew word for attitude, sort of (Sorry republicans) a "Yes We Can" state of mind."Of course our underfunded, 3 people strong, Middle East based startup will kick IMB's ass! What other option is there?"10. Efficiency over protocol and hierarchy - This is a cultural thing. By the time an american or European company will finalize its company structure, product road map and work plan, an Israeli startups will have its Beta product ready for installation.********************************Recent addition of #11, by managing partner at Gemini, Yossi Sela:11. A tolerance towards failure - Israeli investors are very "forgiving" compared with other counterparts, with regards to past failure/s of a startup founder. The fact you failed COULD mean you've learned. It doesn't necessarily mean that, but it could. We're interested in checking if this is the case, so past failure doesn't get you shunned.While very respective of Yossi's addition, he totally messed up a perfectly round "10 items" list... Gee, thanks...********************************Sure, when it becomes a big company we need outside management, cause we are have plenty to learn from others when that phase arrives.But till then...I tell you, there are few places in the world that a VC like me has so much to choose from in such little space, full of entrepreneurs that focus on Israeli fortes:Big data: IronSource, SimilarWeb, SiSense, Panoply Smart Cloud Data Warehouse, Logz.io: Secure & Scalable Log Management with Cloud-Based ELK, Windward, Dynamic YieldAd tech, content, and discovery: OutBrain, Taboola, MinuteMedia, Kaltura, PlayBuzz, YotPo, EyeView, SundaySkyDevOps and infrastructure: Jfrog, Redis Labs, Cloudinary, SpotInst, Velostrata, StratoscaleEnterprise software: WalkMe, Capriza, Gong, SAmanageGIS and automotive: Moovit, Gett, Nexar, Innoviz, Via (and, of course, success stories like Waze and MobileEye)Cyber security and fraud prevention: BioCatch, Forter, Riskified, Cybereason, Argus, Coronet, Guardicore, Morphisec, Dome 9, EnSilo, Minerva LabsHope this was an interesting snapshot.

Here in Finland, Akhlaq Ahmad published his study about labour market discrimination in March.[1]In his study, he sent 5,000 job applications to employers in low-paid fields, with the aim of finding out how much one’s name influences the probability of being invited to a job interview.Ahmad created five groups of job seekers representing different ethnicities: Finnish-born, English, Russian, Iraqi, and Somali. Then he sent job applications to 1,000 vacancies from each of these groups through the website of the employment services, in the fields of restaurant work, catering, retail, office work, cleaning, and customer service.All imaginary job seekers were identical: the same education, the same amount of previous experience. All of them had gone to school only in Finland, which meant that they had either been born in Finland or arrived here before the first grade. All of them spoke excellent Finnish. Half of them were men, and half of them were women.They only differed from each other in regard to their names.The results were strikingly different.The applicants with a Finnish name were invited to a job interview 390 times out of 1,000, while the applicants with an Iraqi name only received 134 invitations. The applicants with a Somali name were the least successful: only 99 of them were invited to a job interview.The results were also different for men and women: in all groups, the applications with a woman’s name on them were more successful.In the following graph you can see the number of invitations received per each 500 job applications in the different groups: Finnish, English, Russian, Iraqi, and Somali. The invitations received by women are marked with red, and those received by men are marked by blue.(Image source)The field didn’t have much impact on the results, and neither did the location or the sex of the employer. Ahmad didn’t detect any impact related to the timing of the application.Taking account all this, the drastic differences attributable only to the ethnicity and mother tongue of the applicant were revealing. While Finnish women received 221 invitations out of 500 applications, the men with a Somali background only received 34 out of 500.In other words, a native Finnish woman is 6.5 times more likely to be invited to a job interview than a man with a Somali background, all else being equal.The study confirms what many people with an immigrant background have suspected for a long time. More than 50 % of the Arabic speakers living in Finland tell that they have faced discrimination in the labour market, and so do 89 % of the Somali speakers. The Roma people born in Finland face even more discrimination than newcomers.And what makes the results even more depressing is that all these imaginary job seekers had either born here or learned Finnish early in their life.I was personally surprised that women were more successful than men, at least when applying for low-paid jobs.It seems that anonymized job applications should really be adopted much more often.Footnotes[1] When the Name Matters: An Experimental Investigation of Ethnic Discrimination in the Finnish Labor Market

Correct. Which meant it was difficult to get individual insurance. It also meant that if denied by one carrier - subsequent applications often required that admission - and was grounds for denying subsequent applications. Price wasn’t the issue and the idea that this was somehow overblown by the Democrats is patently absurd.Donna Dubinsky (yes that Donna Dubinsky of Palm Computing and Handspring fame) described her own personal challenges in a NYT Op-Ed in 2011 - Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance.THIS isn’t the story of a poor family with a mother who has a dreadful disease that bankrupts them, or with a child who has to go without vital medicines. Unlike many others, my family can afford medical care, with or without insurance.Instead, this is a story about how broken the market for health insurance is, even for those who are healthy and who are willing and able to pay for it.Most employees assume that if they lose their job and the health coverage that comes along with it, they’ll be able to purchase insurance somewhere. The members of Congress who want to repeal the provision of last year’s health insurance law that makes it easier for individuals to buy coverage must assume that uninsured people do not want to buy it, or are just too cheap or too poor to do so.The truth is that individual health insurance is not easy to get.The reality is that once denied by one carrier - it perpetuates through the application process to others and it became a very effective tool for insurance carriers to simply “cherry pick” only healthy people for individual coverage.Individual coverage becomes increasingly important in an economy full of part-timers and “gig” workers - and that market is growing.