Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

Bill Gross on Solar Energy, Idealab and Entrepreneurship

Last week Henry Blogdet and his team from BusinessInsider were at our office building for a video interview with Idealab CEO & Snap Chairman Bill Gross. Today it was published. It is a fascinating interview where Bill shares his vision … Continue reading

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Israeli New Media Delegation – Welcome Back To Los Angeles

Can’t believe it has been a year since the previous visit of the Israeli New Media Delegation to Los Angeles. Next week it will happen again and I will participate in it for the 3rd year in a row (see … Continue reading

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Email Marketing Done Right

A few days ago, my wife asked me to create a new brochure for her birth doula business. A quick search in my gmail inbox took me to VistaPrint’s website where I quickly completed the design process and ordered new … Continue reading

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Boxee-Hulu-Networks-Users : Only Loosers

I was extremely disappointed to hear that Hulu was forced by their content partners to turn off Boxee support. Here’s a situation which turned from a win-win-win-win case to a loose-loose-loose-loose one: The networks (NBC, CBS, FOX and others) lost … Continue reading

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First Round Capital Rocks

This amusing new year’s greetings video made by First Round Capital and their long list of portfolio companies, located in so many places around the globe (it was nice for me to see the two Ramat Gan towers, and that … Continue reading

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Forrest Gump of the Internet Speaks

Yossi Vardi chat with Kara Swisher at Le Web 08 on his new initiative – internet for the dead. Inspired by Gil Rimon.

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Yahoo buys FoxyTunes

Congratulations to the founders of FoxyTunes – the Sirota brothers, Alex and Vitaly, for getting acquired by Yahoo and joining the Yahoo Music group. This deal is yet another example that a great engaging product, millions of downloads and presence … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Yedda

AOL has acquired Yedda to make it the Q&A service of the AOL network. Congratulations to Yaniv, Avichai and their team for creating a great product and becoming AOL’s forth acquisition in Israel, following Mirabilis ICQ), Relegence and Quigo. Read … Continue reading

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Hollywood welcomes Israeli Digital Media Companies – Part 2

While most the Israeli Internet scene got together to shomooze at iDrink 7 in Tel Aviv, a selected group of them showed up last night on the red carpet of the Beverly Hilton for the reception event. I had the … Continue reading

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Hollywood welcomes Israeli Digital Media Companies

Later this week a delegation of selected Israeli digital media start ups will hit Los Angeles. The event is organized by Yossi Vardi and Arnon Milchan with the purpose of introducing Israeli entrepreneurs to some of the world’s largest media … Continue reading

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