About the book
Dan Senor and Saul Singer, writing with the eye of foreign policy insiders, ask why Israel, a small and young country with no natural resources and a long history of conflict, produces more start-ups per person than far larger and more stable nations. They set aside explanations based on ethnic or religious exceptionalism and point to two forces: mandatory military service, whose flat and improvising culture trains future founders, and waves of immigrants willing to start from scratch. Government policy, impatience with the status quo and examples such as the Israeli work behind Google Suggest fill out the case. The authors interviewed more than 100 people, and the book reached the New York Times business bestseller list.
eMag founder Iulian Stanciu chose it because so much of it is free of nonsense, and it appears on The Ultimate Books to Read List kept by Poke head of strategy Bogdana Butnar.
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Recommended by Bogdana Butnar (Head of Strategy/Poke)
Iulian Stanciu (Founder/eMag)
In every good or bad decision, there is a lesson. The real win is not having done something right, but having learned something you can apply in the future. I've let people make the wrong decisions even if I knew they were wrong, because I knew that would teach them something better than I ever could.
Why the "Start-up Nation" book? Because lots of things are BS free. If someone in the company thinks I did something stupid, they're free to tell me why. Let's call things as we see them.
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