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Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

Amy Sample Ward

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. This came decades ahead of most western governments. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2