Or-Tal Kiriati

A unique event took place yesterday in my city, Ramat-Gan. A neighborhood, that is - the group of parents and kids who live in the neighborhood, produced a show and brought food to a well organized farewell party, made in honor of a preschool teacher, who decided to retire after 25 years at the job. [...]

Longer days. More hours of daylight. More demand for fun. Less time to work. More time with the kids. Vacation – a must. Thinning events. Too hot: Less time outside. More time for writing. Reading? Too hot. Nothing new. New projects? After the summer. addthis_pub [...]

Am I in the right neighborhood, or what? I know all startups who won the TWS2008 Promising Israeli Startups Competition, held yesterday by “the.co.ils“.   I feel very “in”, to find out I am networked with the selected. All 10 finalists have been networking intensively and efficiently. You’ve seen the people or the company at every [...]

Being a consultant can sometimes be really, really lonely. And this is true even on the busiest days. As I write this I am sitting in my office, at home. A small fridge is tempting me, but I can stay glued to my chair for hours, unless I have meetings outside. I got back to work [...]

A tribute to my grandmother, who past away last night, 3 months away from her 101 birthday. My grandmother, Sara Sorkin was a born entrepreneur and a vibrant doer. Startupseeds would have loved to recruit ladies like her. But they came nearly 100 years too late. I am not sure I know all her stories or that [...]

I recently joined a social network called mepeace.org. This network, built on my favorite NING platform, suggests a platform for peace making in the Middle East. Let’s start by communicating, says Eyal Raviv, a relatively new immigrant from New-York and a former Yeshiva student who established this network about a year ago. The network now [...]

“We look at the present through a rear view mirror; we walk backwards into the future” is one of my favorite Marshall McLuhan quotes. The man who said “The medium is the message” and “The user is the content” tens of years before the web 2.0 made its first steps has a unique perspective on [...]

Internet entrepreneurship is a tricky thing. You really can’s say what will work and why. All this talk about a bubble really isn’t relevant to the actual businesses. Some may flourish in spite of a bubble, and others may hang their failure on a so called bubble. Bubble or no bubble, here is an inspiring bubble: [...]

A funny realization came to me last week. I am getting younger by the minute. Professionally. When I started my career, my working life, I was a 16 year old journalist among veterans 20-30 years older than myself. Had to prove I was worth something, had to work hard and grow fast. When I left my journalistic [...]

Isn’t this the first lesson a parent gives his kids? I was reminded of it earlier, as I watched the Frontline show “Growing Up Online“, thanks to a post by Steve Hagardon. If someone had asked me, I’d have to admit that I more easily identify with teens on the story than with the parents we’ve [...]