So I can’t talk too much about what is Wander or OnWander, a Techstars company. Techstars has an amazing list of companies and David Tisch makes sure Techstars Mentors are not confused and realize they ought to help everybody but “work” with only one company.   I was fortunate to be invited to get more involved with Jeremy Fisher’s company, Wander, as they are walking their journey into the Techstars launch. I’m a big believer [...]

I’ve probably had dozens of interviews, panels, and Ivy League universities meet-ups in the past few years at Taboola. In the US and outside of it. I was invited to speak at Prince Albert’s MMF, and gave a presentation to MIT MBA students (never finishing my under grade). I thought I got it covered. Or so I thought.   My style is usually to aggressively provoke the obvious as I have a personal issue with [...]

I like numbers. There is something deterministic and final about numbers; they say what they say and the mean what the mean. Not a lot of day2day “gray area” to manipulate and not a lot of options to be discussed.   Something equals something.   If you watched HBO’s The Wire season 4, or if you ever waited for a promotion competing on it with others, or if you ever were an officer in the [...]

According to Quantcast, a 3rd party company that tracks companies like Wikipedia, Twitter and Amazon – Taboola shows its recommendations to 74M people in the US every month.   By quick calculations it means that about ¼ of the country comes across a “Related Content” widget that is powered by Taboola at least once a month. I’m sure you’ve seen us if you ever visited sites like Bloomberg, The NYTimes, CNN, MensHealth, Ynet in Israel, [...]

Good entrepreneurs try different things and have a long lasting energy to flip products and business models around again and again, carrying enthusiasm and leadership so the team and investors stay tight until they hit the jackpot. Real business, market demand and revenue.   I like music, and I like Pandora. I really don’t understand Spotify and I think that if YouTube over time will grow smarts and will offer simple way to discover on [...]

Twitter business model today is something called “Promoted Tweets”. At a high-level an advertiser can pay Twitter to promote any organic tweet on the Twitter ecosystem and surface it to others at the top of their tweet feed that would not necessarily see that tweet otherwise. As an example, Motorola could pay Twitter to spark a tweet of someone saying “the new Droid is cool!” to a broader audience through promotion. Hence “promoted tweets”.   [...]

These days, it’s one of those periods when I feel I’m too busy to do anything. I’m behind emails and there is a lot of business going on at the company I work at to attract my attention. That’s good. On the flip side I don’t get enough time to sit with great entrepreneurs about their business as I used to, and I thought I’d write about some topics that come up from those recent [...]