10 things i'll remember on TWS 2007

Good “demo” event organized by thecoils.com guys. Some things caught my attention

• About 400 attendants, which was representative of the internet startup israeli pool. Good Mingling. Good Vibes.
• The couple Yossi Vardi/Shimon Peres seem to tour the web conferences (they were already there in LeWeb3)
• “The first entrepreneur was God”. Peres. Where did he raise money?
• Food was good but served too early (yes this is important)
• Like many busy men Yair Goldfinger seem to have a big collection of the same Tshirt (a cool one btw)
• Disappointed to see no pic on flickr with TWS2007 tag
• Not enough blog buzz about this event. Come on bloggers!
• Twitter was the subject of discussion here and there
• Being a good startup does not mean you are good at presenting and convincing. This is not key to succeed but yesterday it was important.
• Good selection of 10 Startups (out of 70 i heard). i was surprised to see one of them was financed by a sponsor/jury of the event (any conflict of interest?)
• One more: everyone start to seem to understand there is no Bubble but like Yaron said “some hot wind”.

This was a first good edition. This was missing in the israeli landscape. Congrats to Yaron and Yami.

Suggestions for next year: wifi connection / demo corner for startups / more goodies / visibility on companies that were not selected/ an international guest for the event / a blog/wiki for the event / think of all the “ole haddachim” that do not read/speak hebrew but would like to participate (many of them are good entrepreneurs)

 

 

Tags: tws2007, israel

Comments

[Ron Mertens]

The event was great, informative and fun.

I do believe we are in the midst of a bubble. When silly ideas (yeah, some of the presented ideas were not really stuff to build a company out of) surface so easily - it's a bubble ;-)

Here are my notes and some photos (sorry I haven't uploaded them to flickr) -

http://www.startupisrael.com/tws_2007_summary

Ron.

[ouriel]

the fact that some ideas don t make sense or will die does not mean the industry is going to collapse

i believe that people abuse of the term "bubble" without really understanding its meaning.

[Laurent Bazet]

Regarding Peres quote: shows that when you have no money, it's cool to have no competitor too :-)

[Omer Perchik]

If I got it right I think that Shimone Peres's quote saying "the world creation was the first entrepreneurship ever" he meant that it was based on self funding :)

[Moshe Maeir]

There was Wifi! I was using it all evening. The only problem in my mind was the longwinded speeches. We came to see and hear the startups and by the time we got to them, I was exhausted!

[Yami]

Good points!

Notes taken...

Here is the link for the pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7747894@N05/