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Waze for Android has grown strongly right alongside Google Maps for Android over the last couple years because the two services address very different use cases,” Bardin explains. “We focus on the daily drive to work — avoiding traffic jams and hazards on a route you know — while Google helps you find places outside of your daily routine. Nobody uses Google Maps to get to work, because it doesn’t bring any particular value there in the way Waze does.

Another friend, who works on Wall Street, is so conscious of overlap with other parents that he has broken down the list of possible names for his forthcoming baby into trader-speak categories like “momentum stock,” “oversold” or a “value play.

The startup scene has become the “Kolel” of secular Israelis. This is where we, the middle class hi-tech folks are ruining the economy. Instead of working and producing money, people collect unemployment while working on some silly idea they had for yet another mobile social BS.