Sharona Alperin “sold” her first home while still in her late teens. At the time, Alperin was several years away from gaining her Realtor’s license, and both the circumstances and the client were a bit unique.
Teva Pharmaceuticals said its president and CEO, Jeremy Levin, has stepped down.
High turnover is typical in the competitive Los Angeles marketing industry, but at BTS Communications, it has little to do with burnout. About 80 percent of interns and staff are hired full time or find work at another creative company after a six- to 12-month stint.
It was 11:02 a.m. on a warm Friday morning, and Pico Boulevard was alive with the energy of last-minute Shabbat shopping. Two teens wearing white button-down shirts and black dress pants exited their yeshiva and walked up to a sleek, black 2012 Kia Sedona minivan that would take them downtown to Union Station.
Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler did not get along. At all.
The Israeli company SodaStream agreed to develop a home system for making carbonated drinks for KitchenAid appliances.
In a twist on the classic academic approach to entrepreneurship, Israeli universities are trending toward classroom-based incubators that allow students to put theory to the test in a sheltering atmosphere. After all, what better way to learn how to start a business than to actually start one?
Amy Salko Robertson — producer of such films as “The Oh in Ohio,” “Lab Rats” and “When Do We Eat?” a comedy set at a Passover seder —realized that she couldn’t continue to rely on the speculative indie film world for income after her husband, John, was injured in a freak accident in 2010, leaving him unable to work. She responded the only way she knew how: Salko Robertson started a frozen yogurt shop.
American billionaire Warren Buffett paid $2 billion for the remaining 20 percent of the Israeli firm Iscar.
Startup spaces in Tel Aviv are getting to be a dime a dozen, but the prime minister doesn’t attend the opening of every single one.
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