Going with the Flow
I embarked on a 30 day blogging challenge to restore my childlike curiosity for writing. Today is day eight and I focused on going with the flow. When is the last time you got out of your comfort zone?
Eze Vidra
Eze Vidra is the founder of VC Cafe and the co-founder and managing partner of Remagine Ventures, a pre-seed fund investing in ambitious founders at the intersection of AI, technology, entertainment, gaming, and commerce with a spotlight on Israel.
He is a former General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) in Europe, former head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding head of Campus London, Google's first startup hub. Eze writes on Israeli tech, venture capital, artificial intelligence, and founder strategy.
He is also the founder of Techbikers, a nonprofit that brings together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read.
Creating a movement
Every change starts from people taking action to drive change. I started a 30 day blogging challenge, today is day 7, and I cover the principles for creating a social movement .
Coaching and Turnaround
Today I’d like to try a different format and discuss coaching, but from the point of view of a different industry. Addressing issues with culture, product, sales, HR, legal, investors, traction can easily fall on the shoulders of the CEO (especially in early stage), putting a ton of pressure.
Peak performance and Flow
Recent discoveries in psychology found the conditions necessary to achieve flow, a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. Learn how you can apply these principles to reach peak performance.
My fascination with Podcasts
The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. I recommend my top podcast choices and have a special update from your comments!
Purple Cows and Charity Water
Let’s talk about marketing and differentiation.
Scale of Messaging Landscape 2017
Now bigger than social media, messaging apps are on practically every phone, and only growing in engagement. This post is my own learning process about this subject.
Blogging Nostalgia and my 30 day Challenge
Blogging has changed massively in the past 12 years. And so have I. In this post, I revisit what got me to start blogging, reminisce on the early tools of blogging and set myself a 30 day challenge.
Israeli High Tech Exits On First Half of 2017 Slowdown and Potential Explanations
According to the IVC Meitar exits report for H1 2017, Israeli high-tech exits total $1.95 billion in the first half of the year in 57 deals, at a five-year low, both in terms of deal number and total amount.
Emerging Machine Intelligence Clusters
Machine Intelligence (AI, ML and Deep Learning) requires a certain calibre of computer science talent. Today, this kind of talent is at the “top of the stack” of computer science. The post covers the Emerging Machine Intelligence Clusters, including US, Europe (UK, France and Germany), Canada and the growing Machine Intelligence cluster in Israel.