This week in Google Developers Live Israel I’ve spoke about a topic I’m passion for long time – Startups and entrepreneurship. It’s always thrilling to create a new ‘thing’. It might be a new service, a whole new product or a company that is disrupting a segment in the market. As the founder, it force you, to think and take many decisions along the way. There is a certain risk/reward ratio to any new venture. In most of the cases, it will have an emotional aspect (subjective risk) and a more mesurable aspect that we can quantify. Here are 20 minutes that try to cover some of the main lessons I’ve learn in the past 20 years. Continue reading
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7 Amazing Techmarkers
I was lucky enough to be in the room for their final rehearsal (yep… it was in the same room that I gave my I/O talk). However, I could not focus on preparing, because their stories were so powerful and inspiring. Each and everyone had a story that kept the ‘wow’ effect. If you have time this weekend… you won’t regrat it. Continue reading
Startups Best Practices
In the past 18 years I’ve started six companies (the last cool one is HighGearMedia). In this talk, I shared some of the best practices that I learned the hard way. There are few aspects that I did my best to covered, from technology to design to following your dreams with the best tools you can allow yourself in a certain point in time. In the slides, there is a section that is devoted to Campus TLV and what is the role (as I see it) of a mentor that works with startups on a daily bases. If you are going to visit the Campus in the future, please don’t be a stranger.There are many more aspects for building a new company. I guess, one of the most critical success factor is finding the right partners and share the load of the work. It’s one of those ‘easy to say hard to do’ things but this is part of the fun.
Good luck!
Women Tech Markers With Yael Karov of Ginger
Today we published the second episode of GDL-IL Women Tech-makers with Yael Karov (Founder and CEO of Ginger Software). Gingre is a service built from Karov’s 20+ years of experience in the field of natural language processing and machine learning that helps users improve their online English language communication. Here the discussion was with Michal Segalov and Dana Gabel (Software Engineer in Google), about Yael’s experiance in commercial launch of innovative products to market.
Enjoy!
UX Drinking Game On Google Developers Live Israel (Hebrew)
Last week we have a great talk in Campus TLV during our work with startups. This time is was in hebrew… on UX and how startups should think on their MVP and the UX of it.
Enjoy.
GDL-IL On Campus TLV
As you know, this week we open Campus TLV so it’s natural that we will have our Google Developer Live episode devoted to this amazing project.
First, What is Campus TLV?
Campus Tel Aviv is a hub for entrepreneurs and developers. In this special space you will be able to organize events, find mentors and share thoughts with other entrepreneurs.
There is a “hacking space” and device library to test your mobile apps on a range of devices. Other program is “Google Launchpad”: a two-week boot camp for early stage start-ups helping with subjects including user interface, product strategy & technology, marketing, business development etc’. Continue reading
Google Campus TLV Is Open!
Today we (Google Israel) are opening Campus TLV. It’s going to be a great place for entrepreneurs and startups in Israel. We are going to have a big space for events, hackathons and a nice device library (so you could test you mobile apps on all the important devices out there). If you are starting a company and/or working on your idea, you could checkout the Campus site and see what event/meetup will be best for you. The Campus space will be used by developers, start-ups and partners for events, and entrepreneurs will get access to Google’s teams and other experts. We’re also working with tech incubators, accelerator programs and other partners to bring their start-ups to Campus for an initiative called “Launch Pad.” It’s a two-week “bootcamp” for more than 100 start-ups each year, aimed at enhancing existing accelerator programs by providing expertise in user experience and design, product strategy, global marketing, business development and more. Continue reading
The Brain, Entrepreneurship And Life With Jeff Hawkins
I’ve watch this interesting conversation between Jeff Hawkins and Michael Chui. For the ones that are old enough to remember Palm (yep, Palm V!) and Handspring – Jeff was the founder of both but he has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time at Numenta
. In this hour conversation there are lots of interesting points on the brain, his life and some great tips for entrepreneurs. Few points that I wrote down from his thoughts: Continue reading
Special GDL-IL On Startups #tips
It is a busy week (and we are only on TUE). First, we had the opportunity to host four founders from around the world (Sweden, Moscow and Israel) on GDL-IL. It was in a special episode about: Sartups, VCs, Angles and how to improve your pitch. I had the pleasure to host Eze Vidra, Head of Google Campus London who gave important feedback after each pitch. The structure of the show was like that: each founder got 3 minutes to pitch his startup and then we gave them feedback and asked more questions in order to understand the strengths better. I liked the fact that each founder choose a different way to pass his message. It was very interesting to hear the progress and learn about the key accomplishments that each of them made. I will write a more detailed summary of this conversation but for now you can enjoy it over here:
Second, last night, fresh from the oven a new podcast in hebrew on HTML5 and CSS3 New & Cool Stuff saw life. I had the honor to be a guest (again) on reversim.com and talk about new web technologies that I’m passion about. If you are a developer that wish to hear quality content in hebrew on subjects that relate to your profesional life. Give it a try, today they have more then 150 episodes that cover A LOT of topics. You can download the mp3 file from here.
Startup Best Practices
Here is the presentation I’ve used in my lighting talk at the Java Posse roundup 2010
There are just few ‘lessons’ here. IMHO, the important ones.
Over the past 15 years, I’ve been in start ups and swat teams in side big companies. There are lots of good things that I’ve learn, but also, lots of bold examples to how not to run things. In the end of the day, it’s all about peopleware and open commutation. But like any other aspect in life, lots of other methods you can use in order to be better and excel.
Disclaimer: In some of the slides I took some ideas from Rework book.
Ido Green 