The Arena is launching another special project on the ‘Net today (January 7, 1998) dealing with Israeli high-tech. 17 high-tech company managers, among the most important in Israel, will write here (one manager each day) about their views on the "Second Silicon Valley". They will analyse the state of the industry, and point to the obstacles facing Israeli start-ups, as well as the tremendous prospects they are opening up for the State of Israel.
The project was first published a week ago in "Globes’" weekend supplement ("Kessef"), and won enthusiastic responses from its Israeli readers. This is your opportunity, Arena readers, to take a unique, comprehensive guided tour which starts, generally speaking, with a brilliant idea, and ends (with a lot of skill and a little luck) on Wall Street or in George Soros, Larry Ellison, or Bill Gates’s telephone book.
As always, you are welcome to respond to the project. The following is a full list of the contributors and topics covered by their articles, which will be published here each day.
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Gil Schwed, CEO of Check Point. How to translate a good idea into a market value of $1.5 billion. |
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Didi Arazi, chairman of the board of Nice Systems. Israeli high-tech’s three greatest problems. |
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Ron Lubash, Lehman Brothers Israeli partner and general manager. The investment banks’ contribution to Israeli prosperity.
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Yanki Margalit, president of Aladdin Knowledge Systems. Israel should try the Japanese model.
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Hanan Achsaf, president and chairman of Motorola Israel. A recommendation: invest in technological manpower.
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Niso Cohen, general manager, IDC Israel. We’re neglecting marketing.
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Rafi Maor, president of Indigo Israel, and manager of the company’s international activities. Israel as a technology incubator.
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Hemi Peres, joint general manager, Polaris Funds. What about education?
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Nir Barkat, general manager of BRM. The life expectancy of start-ups will shrink.
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Yisrael Mazin, general manager, Memco Software. Everything starts in the IDF.
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Danny Falk, associate general manager, Orbotech. Too many start-ups per square metre.
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Matti Karp, general manager, Kardan Technologies. Israel is still not a high-tech power.
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Rina Pridor, manager of the technology incubators. The best chance of reducing unemployment.
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Eli Hershkovitz, general manager and president of RADGuard (of the RAD-Bynet group). The future is Virtual Private Networks (VPN).
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Ron Zuckerman, chairman, Sapiens International. Exploit the year 2000 demand.
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Shlomo Tobol, president and founder of Finjan. A start-up country.
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Efi Arazi, president, A. Media, and chairman of the board at EFI. It’s all thanks to the French.
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Published by Israel's Business Arena January 7, 1998