Start-up Nation
"What's the business plan? Chutzpah. Lots of it... The book weaves together colourful stories of Israeli technological triumph.... And it is marvelous" Washington Post How can Israel. with only 7.1million people, no natural resources, enemy on every border, and in a constant state of war produce more start-uo companies than Japan, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom? Drawing an example from the country's foremost inventors and investors, geopolitical experts Dan Señor and Saul Singer describe how Israel's adversity-driven culture fosters a unique combination of innovative and entrepreneurial intensity. While Americans emphasize decorum and exhaustive preparation, Israelis put chutzpah first, Señor and Singer also show why isreali's policy on immigration, R&D, military service have spurred the country's rise. Isreali has more companies on the NASDAQ than Korea, Japan, Singapore, India and all of Europe combined. There's never been...