Here’s one underrated glass ceiling I am sure many of you hit at least once. You come up with a great idea. You build a great offering with all the right ingredients – valuable, viral, economic, technically cunning, innovative, inspiring. You assemble the right core team and put together a proof of concept prototype. Proud yet in dire need for funds, you begin your VC tour which seems to be going phenomenally well. Or so it seems. The associates’ eyes are glowing but the partners’ smiles are a bit nervous (or so you think but quickly suppress). You then receive a bunch of follow-up homework assignments with a clear target of buying time. When it comes to getting the right partners on board – you wait forever, or until you run out of money or drive, whichever comes first. What is it that makes that glass ceiling? The “associates love it but the partners kill it”, impossible to break ceiling? (more…)

      

Quit now if you hate politics, tired of politics or heard enough of it. I must admit I am no huge fan either, but as a citizen of a country that has held 5 (soon to be 6) elections during the last 14 years (1992,1996,1999, 2001 ,2003 ,2006) I will let this post be my humble say. However, this will not be about the regular political mambo-jumbo. I elected (notice careful choice of words ) to scrutinize the new Kadima party, under the “BOW vs. Fusion” microscope. (more…)