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Important Tips By Angel Investors


What to develop? What to keep at a business pitch? how to maintain a balanced life? 
The following are some meaningful Q&A with Erez Pilosof one the founders of Walla (Israeli web portal ) and Yair Goldfinger one of the founders of ICQ (Mirabilis).



How do you know what to develop?

"Develop what you love. The Founder of Ferrari said: 'I build cars myself, if people like them, it's a bonus'."

How do you balance the entrepreneurial life?

"You have to work hard and find your true soul mate".

For a conclusion, what tips can you share with us for a Successful Business Pitch?


"You better come up with a working prototype or Mockup (Model)".






Where to look: in Israel, Europe, United States, Asia?

Not in Israel. It's a small meaningless market. Select a Large and significant market.

How do you know what to develop?

If you are developing a product for consumers, do it with as many friends, and preferably not just those from your home land. If it is for companies do it with potential customers.

How to choose a partner?

Choose people you know and trust. Beware from those you just met. Better with the second or third best friend.

From whom do you take the initial funding?

"In today's reality, simply the one who like to give. Make sure you give special priority to professional angels".

How to register a patent?

"Write the name of the entrepreneurs in the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty). It important to do it in the very beginning, to get a Priority".


For a conclusion, what tips can you share with us for a Successful Business Pitch?


"Short and cut the bullshit. emphasis the problem, market size, solution, why should it be you, marketing channels, funding and competition".


Source: The Marker Magazine Editing and Translation: Alon Ben Levy

Warning! Bad Widget On Blogger

On Blogger when you try to add a gadget to Facebook or flickr (could be more) you might come across this: "Windows Live Messenger + Facebook"


An easy way to remove Windows Live Messenger + Facebook:
  1. Click on Layout 
  2. Where you see " Windows Live Messenger + Facebook " click on Edit
  3. Click Remove
  4. Click OK when asked "Are you sure you want to remove this page element from your page?"
  5. Done! :)


MOMA - Google intranet



MOMA - Google intranet or Back to Business Post

I must begin this post with some words of amazement. This was my reaction when I opened my Google AdSense & Blogger Account:

"This Blog alone got 3400 page views! Great!
I got 50 Blogs on Blogger with a total of 57,942 Page views! Even Greater!" - Alon Ben Levy


So my Blogger/Googler/Google friends, I'm glad to say that i'm back to business! I will upload some more new posts that I'm working on this following week. Meanwhile feast your eyes on this 5 year old post I found. I hope you will like it! stay tuned! (:

An old but great article written by Doug an Ex-Googler:

"MOMA, Google's intranet, was designed by and for engineers and for the first couple of years, its home page was devoid of any aesthetic enhancements that didn't serve to provide information essential to the operation of Google. It was dense and messy and full of numbers that were hard to parse for the uninitiated, but high in nutritional value for the data hungry.


MOMA displayed latency times, popular search terms, traffic stats for Google-owned properties and, at the center of it all, a large graph with colored lines labeled with the names of Muppet characters. I can't reveal what that graph represented, but if Rizzo or Fozzie started closing the gap with the Great Gonzo, Oscar would not be the only grouch on Sesame Street. (...)


As the company grew, the most useful aspect of MOMA for me was the phone list, which contained the title, email address, IM name, photo, extension and location of everyone on the payroll. The individual's name would be linked to a list of his or her quarterly goals and objectives, so you could understand exactly where your proposed project was likely to fit in their priority list before you even spoke with them.


I came to take it for granted that any information I needed about Google could be found on the intranet, from the status of products in development to the number of employees at any point in the company's history. Ironically, the lack of decent search capability would make some things hard to find in the early days, though Google finally hooked up one of its own search appliances to fix that problem." (December 14, 2005)