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December 08, 2007
Conversations from the Edge: Tel Aviv is the Hi-Tech Startup Capital of the World
I am not aware of any other city anywhere in the world where one can smell entrepreneurship in the air. Each time I visit Tel Aviv I continue to be amazed by: the people I meet; the ideas I hear about; the innovation which is happening; and by the positive “can do” energy in the air. The people I know who are involved with startups in Israel are living the 24/7 lifestyle of working non-stop. Just about anything and everything is possible.
If someone is looking to find their next “Life Major”, if there is a chance it is going to be in Hi-Tech, I highly recommend adding Tel Aviv as one of the cities to visit during their journey.
While the primary focus of my current trip to Israel has been to support the efforts of FWD International in establishing their R&D Center, I have also been spending some of my time meeting with people involved in early-early stage startups. At last count, tomorrow I will be spending most of my day meeting with 16 or so new startups in a non-stop stream of back-to-back meetings.
And as each trip comes to a close, I can not help but look forward to the next chance I will have to come back and visit and catch up with my friends who collectively have become my source of inspiration for the work that I do. These are some of the people who have helped establish Tel Aviv as the Hi-Tech Startup Capital of the World.
Tags: Tel Aviv, life major, startup, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on December 8, 2007 05:29 AM | Permalink
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Comments
For Twitter fans everywhere, there is now a really cool app., that allows you to "leave your Twitter a voice mail"- and it get's posted as a Tweet via speech recognition!
Bill Burke
http://wirelessspeech.blogspot.com/2007/12/twitter-by-speech.html
Posted by: Wireless Speech Recognition at December 9, 2007 12:12 AM
Speaking of "high tech"..
There is now video _content_ searches by using speech recognition and concept/entity extraction on the audio stream!
http://wirelessspeech.blogspot.com/2007/12/searching-audio-in-videos-with-speech.html
Posted by: Wireless Speech Recognition at December 8, 2007 09:04 PM