My Israeli Education, Day 1
last night, my plane landed in tev aviv, and passengers erupted into applause. the Israeli-born guy sitting next to me said, “Bet you haven’t been to many places where they clap when the plane lands.”...
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exhaustion from three countries in a week’s time and too late of a saturday night conspired to make me feel lousy today. fever, pukey. it wasn’t pretty. so my apologies for no brilliant post about the...
View Articlepoor neglected blog…
i’ve been in israel since friday and i’m finding it very hard to write about. me? at a loss for words? i know, right? it *does* happen. i’ve been trying to figure out why that is. part of that is...
View Articleif you’re wondering…
…why all the blogs all the sudden, there are two reasons. 1. we got a new bus. THANK YOU ISRAELI GOV’T! we are not actually sitting on top of one another in sweltering heat. (although craig is still...
View Articleethnic profiling also hits home…
yesterday i found the most rad present EVER for my super hip husband geoff. (who it feels like i haven’t seen for MONTHS) it was a black t-shirt with this rad panther jumping from behind hebrew letters...
View Articlereligious freedom hits home…
i feel horrendous again today. turns out walking around in the heat for 12 hours then capping off the evening with champagne and immense laughter isn’t a great cure for the flu, or whatever plague this...
View Articlesarah the hero!
me rescuing scoble’s camera. believe it or not, he left it at the restaurant! it’s a facebook photo so hopefully the link works…
View ArticleJerusalem Venture Smarties
i’d always hoped the smartest VCs weren’t all in Silicon Valley (because believe me– if you’d met some of them that’d be quite an indictment to the non-Valley venture world.) We just had a great...
View Articlea country of jewish mothers
About 9:30ish or so last night i was sitting at a cafe on the beach with Orli Yakuel and JD and while we had a great conversation and the setting was beautiful, it was soon clear my stamina and success...
View ArticleBack Home…Finally!
I got home safely late Friday afternoon after some 20 hours of travel time. I was only gone a little over two weeks, but it felt like months. There was so much crammed into my trip to London, Cannes...
View ArticleIsraeli Women: as Woman-y as the Rest of Us
Men are always befuddled by women, right? Well, last week, I felt their pain. I spent a good deal of my time in Israel meeting with female entrepreneurs and bloggers to get a sense of how gender roles...
View ArticleInterview with Orli
orli interviews me about my book. i can’t believe i miss israel as much as i do given how sick i was! i want to go back!
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Virtual Worlds….Really?
We have a few pieces posting on Tech Ticker today and Monday that parse through a lot of the first quarter venture capital data. I’ve never interviewed that many people in studio at once and not sure...
View ArticleTwitter: Not Mainstream, but Seeping Out of the Echo Chamber for Sure
One major flaw in Kara’s informal survey: Equating this wedding she was at with “outside the Silicon Valley echo chamber.” I’ve been stunned how quickly people outside the Valley have started following...
View ArticleMIA Friday
Apologies, dear readers. I have been MIA this morning. Pilates at 8 a.m. and then had to rush Mr. Vinnie to the vet for some issues you don’t want to know about….believe me. He’s going to be fine and...
View ArticleValley-Ho!
If there’s one theme that I’ve thought about, talked about and written about the most over my career covering tech and finance it’s the debate of whether you need to relocate to Silicon Valley to be...
View ArticlePoor Valley Girl!
In a busy day for tech news– with CNET getting bought, Carl Ichan is causing more troubles for Yahoo, and OF COURSE my book coming out officially– I hope someone will check out my latest Valley Girl...
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Up Next: London
God forbid I sit still for more than two weeks. I've still got my Africa jet lag, but I'm already planning my time in London July 4-16. The first week I'm traveling with a group of videographers,...
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Life in London: Does Fun Have an ROI?
I did very little blogging while I was in London, but it wasn't because I didn’t find anything interesting to write about. It’s because I was talking, laughing, eating or drinking nearly every moment...
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Staying Put for a While
I'm about one-third of the way through my 18-month death-march around the world seeking its best entrepreneurs, or as I call it in polite conversation, work on my new book. It's time for a break. Aside...
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UK Entrepreneurs: Get Your Funding While You Still Can
[Cross-posted from TechCrunch] You think you have it bad, Mr.-Silicon-Valley-entrepreneur-trolling-Sand-Hilll-Road-for-cash? Try life on the other side of the pond. Out of 39 firms that were active...
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Why Zynga Is Worried about Playfish
[Cross-posted from TechCrunch] When I wrote my BusinessWeek column on Zynga a while back, every venture capitalist in the Valley told me that Playdom was the company’s biggest competitor. After all, it...
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Wonga: How the Net Should Kill the Finance Industry
[Cross-posted from TechCrunch] What’s awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying...
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Blonde 2.0 Tries Hard to Get Me in Trouble
One thing I've noticed during my six months of jet-setting is that entrepreneurs around the world want to be compared to Silicon Valley, but frequently get upset when you do it. Michael Arrington...
View ArticleWhat a Horrible Day of Travel!
JD came from New York and beat me by THREE HOURS. beer now. coherent blog after. politika . domain owner parental blocker . dns information where is domain hosted domain dns server . ip tech info i...
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