On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:00:16AM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > I can't, i am academically exhausted :), if there is such a thing. Perhaps in > 10 years from now.
I can understand that, getting a PhD is a lot of work. > If you know of a one tell me. I was involved in several startups in the past. > I am not averse but then again, not highly inclined to go that path with only > options :) Actually I do, but they are not ready to hire people yet. If you know people who want to start startups and have BUSINESS experience, CEOs are needed to go from idea to startup. Idea and funding contacts provided, effort needed. The problem with startups is that Israeli's think that you need to starve because the startup will pay you big time when it IPOs or gets sold. This is a load of crap. You need to hire good people and pay them living wages or they leave. Too many companies spend their time looking like they are producing something to keep investors happy, while they don't have a clue how to actually do anything, and don't want to be told. Bear in mind 85% of ALL business fail, 75% in the first year. If you are told that your stock option's cash in value are 30% of your salary, (which I was) run like hell. That was in 2002, the company still has not yet produced an actual consumer product. Note that according to Israeli law, you have to buy out your options when you leave the company. > I think that instead of a boom, in the last few days there were corrections > downwards so the boom in this context means, some small bubble just burst in > wall street. I don't think we will ever going to see a climbing like before > 2000. I think this is as good as it gets. I don't. Last summer I predicted an increase in "guilt" funding to Israel after the war, but it would all go to rebuild the north. Now that that is over (the investing, not the rebuilding), there will be more investment in high tech. It will be mostly in the middle of the country. Haifa, which you noted you just moved to, is too "blue colar" and too far away from the center, Beer Sheva is a bust and Jerusalem is to dati to be of any value for investors. Beer Sheva was "hot" when the person in charge of Ben Gurion (President?) was a good fund raiser, the univeristy had more money than it knew what to do with. He left, and his replacement is not as good, so investment is down, and people are migrating. Jerusalem has too many expenses because of its large welfare population, and too many datim who think that staying on the leading edge of technology is too expensive and foolish. Many of them came from the U.S. where technology was part of everything. Here they think they can live and work without keeping up, living in total ignorance of their lack of current (or useful knowledge). We lost a very very large offer of funding because my charadi partners refused to eat with the Korean investors. It was an unpardonable insult not to go out and get drunk with them. To add injury to insult, one of their employees had already accepted a job with a competitor, introduced them as a "strategic partner" and when he left took all of proprietary documents with him. Before you accuse me of anything, I'm dati. And I'm NOT saying all dati people are like that, for example Sandy Kolb, the BEST patent lawyer in the country is dati. > To be honest, i tried something a few months ago but as you say, i needed an > MBA to understand what not to do/start. Not a total waste though, at least i > learned to Python pretty well. Been there, done that, several times. You really don't need an MBA, there are tons of books and websites devoted to it. The hard part is to get a team of professionals together who know what to do and really can do it. BTW, after reading some of your other emails, what exactly is your degree in? Not the title, but what do you know? Personaly I would not waste any time on a FOSS project. Most managers won't care, it has no relevance to their world, and many startup managers will take it that you are more interested in the work than the money and if they do hire you, will take advantage of you (to be polite). > > 6. Go where the jobs are. How is your Chinese? :-) > > Like my Japanese. :) As I taught my 11 year old son, "gyoza Matsushita". If you understand Japanese you get the pun, if you don't, don't bother. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
