My thoughts on Web 2.0 Finance 2.x and Management.
We believe that a new economic framework requires a new form of digital currency (aka the good dollar). The bitcoin protocol is perfect as the underlying technology just as HTTP is the foundation of the web. Below is the initial spec to build the new framework on top of the Bitcoin network, thus creating an economy of bitcoin […]
Ever since I remember myself I tried to make money. When I was 12 I took my brother’s D&D miniature figures (he used to buy them and paint them) and sell them to my friends at school. At 13 I got the material cost issue and simply took his paintings and copied them and sold copies. At 14, I […]
eToro announced today that we completed a round ‘Social’ Investment Network eToro Is Picking Up Another $15 Million … A lot of people asked me why we raised the money, and when I say that we want to expand and scale our business faster it doesn’t do the trick, I realize its more perception than anything […]
I am fascinated by the trend of micro VC’s and acceleration, In general I am a big fan of the VC concept in general, in vesting in visionary growth and in entrepreneurs is obviously something I believe in.In the mgmt2.0 post I said anyone can be a manager, this statements was highly criticized, so I will elaborate, while people […]
As a young CEO of an Internet company, it seems there are many flaws in how the word ‘management’ is perceived by most people. Older people seem to think management is about organization and order, about tasks that must be defined and executed accurately, about wrong perception of hierarchy and that long detailed planning will help with improving quality. When the […]
It is really good for pondering about last year and setting goals for next year.In this Birthday rant, I picked up my first 31st Bday resolution : Write As If You Have No Fear I’ll start writing until people stop reading, I’ll talk about life, work (most of my life right no), family (Mor and Adam), […]
They are both great features.The Sopranos must be one of the best TV Series ever made, it also started (some other great series before that like The Simpsons) a trend of really high quality, deep characters that evolve with time series.Facebook is a great platform, with time it gets better, it evolves with its customers […]
One of the biggest milestones of the Internet was the shift of the economy to use the new currency system . They started by offering 1$ for 1 share of the new economy and explained the pace would increase in time, so it will cost 2$ to buy share and then 4 and 8 and […]
A lot of companies today are searching for their purpose, they search for purpose because as work becomes more sophisticated and people become more skilled, people want a purpose. So it only makes sense for governments or states to have a purpose as well. It is important to understand that every organization has an generic […]
Someone once told me that if I want to explore an idea “too outrageous for our generation”, I should use culture as opposed to standard communication. He explained that using culture (music, plays, story, movie picture) helps explain an idea even if the people watching it are not ready for it yet. After watching the movie Avatar […]