Nov 13, 2022Exploring Israel, the startup nation (Part 2)This was written based on experiences and research I did in 2019. This included multiple visits to the Taglit Innovation Center in Tel Aviv and the Peres Center for Peace & Entrepreneurship in Jaffa. I am publishing it in November 2022 so some of the information may now be inaccurate…Israel7 min readIsrael7 min read
Nov 11, 2022Crypto’s Judgment DayI wrote this and this in 2017. Five years ago. At the time I knew I was fighting a losing battle to try to get funding for a Bitcoin startup from VCs who had just come to the realization that the invention of Bitcoin had opened the door for them…Bitcoin5 min readBitcoin5 min read
Nov 4, 2022Exploring Israel, the startup nation (Part 1)This was originally written in 2019 and I am publishing it in November 2022. I haven’t edited it since so as not to dilute my initial perspective from 2019 but the last 3 years have been challenging for most of the world including Israel with the Covid pandemic, Russia, Ukraine…Israel9 min readIsrael9 min read
Dec 4, 2018Shaming the nouveau richeI’ve done better recently at retreating to my laptop and my noise cancelling headphones and broadly ignoring the UK media generating hullabaloo on things that I have no control over. (Brexit is the current fad.) However, one can’t avoid it completely and today I saw an article on the front…Brexit3 min readBrexit3 min read
May 1, 2018Software Engineering DailyI spent the best part of 6 months traipsing around the San Francisco Bay Area with very little money or accommodation trying to raise funds for a startup and attempting to get into the head of VCs and angel investors (Not anymore, I’m increasingly convinced their true value is in…Podcast4 min readPodcast4 min read
Apr 23, 2018Skin in the GameIf you give an opinion, and someone follows it, you are morally obligated to be, yourself, exposed to its consequences. I read too many books without crystallizing my ideas on the content in depth. In the absence of a book club or people with shared interests, the best you can…Books7 min readBooks7 min read
Apr 21, 2018RIP AviciiAvici — the lowest level of hell in Buddhist belief system To risk sounding narcissistic, I haven’t had one of my idols from the world of music die a premature death during my lifetime. I was too young to have got into the music of Kurt Cobain, Biggie or Tupac…Music3 min readMusic3 min read
Apr 17, 2018Member-onlyThe turnaround of Andreessen HorowitzYesterday Balaji S. Srinivasan described the turnaround of 21.co from a failing company bleeding capital to being acquired by Coinbase for over $100million. When Balaji was appointed CEO in May 2015, 21.co was close to bankruptcy. He was shocked to discover that they were selling 21 Bitcoin Computers and trying…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Apr 3, 2018Life as a game of pokerIf you want to achieve anything in life, you have to define a goal and work towards to it. You can stumble upon the goal but once set, ambitious goals typically require thousands of hours of dedication. Depending on what you are attempting to achieve in your life, there are…Startup5 min readStartup5 min read
Sep 21, 2017Choking on ICO tokensI am really trying to keep an open mind with regards to ICOs on Ethereum and this supposed future where every application has a (different) token. However, my suspicions towards the intellectual honesty of their advocates are increasing by the day. I posted my initial thoughts on tokens back in…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
