Dec 25, 2022My French Cathedrals power ranking of 2022I love cathedrals, and I love France. In the past two years, I visited more than 20 cathedrals and chapels, and as I am approaching the end of my stay in France, I thought it is only appropriate to put on paper my personal ranking of French cathedrals. The rules…Paris12 min readParis12 min read
Jun 23, 2022New concepts of communityUrban life has been a personal fascination of mine for a long while now. When I was living on Tel Aviv, the entire city was my home, and everything concerning it was my community. …Community4 min readCommunity4 min read
Mar 20, 2022My first investment miss“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members” (G. Marx) — I want to do a post mortem of the first opportunity I had, and missed, of angel investment. To put things in proportions: I have limited investing capacity and have had any capacity for a very short time. I haven’t had the chance to make an independent angel investment, but…Angel Investors6 min readAngel Investors6 min read
Mar 8, 2022In the corporate hunger gamesOne thing I can’t say I didn’t know and also didn’t know I don’t know is the dominance of corporate work culture in the MBA experience. I probably still don’t know what it really means, because the largest organization I was ever part of had ~50 pp. I never worked…Mba5 min readMba5 min read
Jan 27, 2022Visit at Saint-DenisFashionably late, I got the good old Covid. I’m sitting in the heart of Paris, grey skies out the window looking at me, occasionally the sound of a bus or a truck passing through the street. We have settled the terms of our much-expected move to Paris, At the end…France6 min readFrance6 min read
Nov 8, 2021FocusI find that a major theme of the MBA experience is the focus. This appears once when you weigh focusing on your studies vs other activities, and a second time in career and sector focus context. A big chunk of one’s attention is devoted to figuring out how focused they…France6 min readFrance6 min read
Oct 4, 2021Initial thoughts anyone?Probably the first thing you notice, going from August in the middle east to September in western Europe, is the gentle, fresh, sense of burn in your nostrils after breathing in cold air. That’s the smell of Europe for me. I have great expectations from the MBA. The best way…Travel5 min readTravel5 min read
Jun 27, 2021Founders researchMy experience teaches me having an experienced, accomplished entrepreneur as a close consigliere is a huge advantage in a startup. For me, the best practice here is a post-exit startup founder investing angel money into the company as early as possible. There are other formats I’ve seen that can work. …Founders7 min readFounders7 min read
Jun 14, 2021How I NetworkThe main skill I gained experience at in the past 5 months is networking. I’m putting here on paper the key takeaways I have about networking, with the hope of having this develop into a discussion: I would love to hear lessons from other people and really even the most…Networking4 min readNetworking4 min read
Jun 9, 2021I’m struggling to compile a long comprehensive thread recently, so in the meanwhile, a few thoughts…I’m struggling to compile a long comprehensive thread recently, so in the meanwhile, a few thoughts that ran through my head: I. Politics and tech are two very different worlds. There’s not much linking the two together, but one can always learn and try to draw conclusions. The recent weeks…Thoughts3 min readThoughts3 min read
