May 27, 2019tech isn’t coming to save us, FROM OURSELVESMaking the world a better place requires more than utopic solutionism. Original author: Ehud Heller (@hellere) Morozov (2014), which some consider the devil’s advocate, rejected the term “cyber-utopianism” which has accompanied the Internet from its earliest days as liberating humanity from its bonds and changing the focal points of power…Economics11 min readEconomics11 min read
Jan 7, 2019Do not cross the line — on borders and art as a dialogueIn the modern era, everyone is an “artist”, everyone is a “creator”, everyone is a “writer, and yet we still frame and model the art in an attempt to construct an agreed upon description that cannot be crossed or challenged. The common language that helped build a “human society” actually…Thinking6 min readThinking6 min read
Dec 2, 2018If you are more of the same, than you don’t have a sayThe risks that venture capital funds refuse to take turns technology into no more than cosmetics. As an influential cognitive ecology architects they direct the desired choices, narrowing the scope of innovation into faux innovation as Kelly and Hess described. Original author: Ehud Heller “Only about 480 of the 10,000…Venture Capital5 min readVenture Capital5 min read
Nov 27, 2018Doing the beyond. An Introduction to the Eitan InstituteEitan Institute (www.eitan.ac.il) is not for profit educational and research organization supported by Eitan capital. Original author: Ehud Heller Menachem Begin, the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, wrote in his “Order of the day” while serving as the commander of the Etzel on 1947: “First, ask your soul, whether you’re right — or not. If your idea is not right — do not start; ……Education4 min readEducation4 min read
Published inDataDrivenInvestor·Nov 25, 2018Beginning: The evolution of ideas“forty two!” screams Lunkwill ,”You need seven and a half million years to count to forty-two ?!”. “I checked it very carefully,” Deep Thought said, “and that’s probably the right answer, the problem, I think, is that none of you actually knows the question.” Original author: Ehud Heller (@hellere) So…Ideas3 min readIdeas3 min read
Nov 18, 2018WE ARE HUMAN VENTURESEitan Capital is more than just research, development or an investment fund — we NURTURE the NeXT bIG NExT Original author: Ehud Heller (@hellere) Eitan Capital (for human ventures) redefines how we look at an investment and holding company that sees itself as a technology transfer agency for groundbreaking public policy research that has an impact on the daily lives of tens of millions of people in Israel and…Entrepreneurship2 min readEntrepreneurship2 min read
Nov 18, 2018From elite research to army of tinkerersThis is the human face of the NeXT bIG NexT, representing the multi-generation DNA evolution of knowledge Original author: Ehud Heller (@hellere) At Eitan Capital, we believe in visionary research but not at the expense of practical implementation. We strive to find the ones who are willing to think big and take risks. We do not hesitate on fighting for daring entrepreneurs who continue to push the…Innovation3 min readInnovation3 min read