Israeli High Tech Community Proves PT Barnum Wrong

Business Leaders are filling the void left by political leadership everywhere. In Israel, they took the lead to prove that suckers are no longer born…

Why Houseparty is a better form of social media for teens than Facebook and Snapchat

As a father of 8 kids, including 3 teenagers, I think a lot about the impact of cellphones and social media on children. Candidly, I worry about its impact on me. In this excellent 15…

Scaling companies through management by exception. Why we invested $7.5M in Anodot

The price of light is less than the cost of darkness. 
 — Arthur C. Nielsen (Market Researcher & Founder of ACNielsen)

Making Product Management Great Again

Over the last decade, we have seen the “Startup Nation” story become a main Israeli narrative, worldwide. The world’s opinion of Israel is that we are remarkably innovative and expeditious in problem solving and delivery. However, to date, we have not been overly…

The Big Disruption

The hottest topic in the press over these last weeks is Universal Basic Income whose arrival and necessity is predicated on the assumption that many jobs are going away. However, the second level implication never comes to the fore and that is that all of these employers are also withering, or…

Ears, Hands or Eyes

Voice Based Interfaces are the next platform

Even before smartwatches, I did not wear a watch. I did not buy an Apple watch or Pebble, despite the cool factor, even though I always upgrade to the latest iPhone as soon as it comes out and…

“We print the NEW money”

“We print the NEW money”- this is how Amos Meiri, CEO of Colu, presented his company at a recent dinner party. Even though this sentence might seem vague to most people, it is in fact exactly what Colu does; Their platform enables the creation and management of monetary systems and…

Hello World

Hi everyone — my name is Aaron Rosenson and I’m Aleph’s newest Partner.

I’ve spent the last 4 years with Insight Venture Partners, a venture capital/growth equity firm in New York City. They’ve backed Twitter, New Relic, and Shopify, as well as a number of impressive Israeli…