Attended the Microsoft VC Summit today, which was quite interesting, with presentations by David Vaskevitch, Microsoft CTO; Brian Arbogast, Microsoft SVP for Mobile; and good panel on mobile apps and services.
But that is not really what I want to write about in this posting (do have what to say on the subject[s] discussed, but more pressing point needs to be made just now).
Yossi Vardi made the point that the killer app is "people." He meant that we should always keep in mind that people like other people, are naturally social and everything flows from that...and I couldn't agree more.
What struck me as Yossi talked about "people," as I looked around the room and on the panel, is that half "the people" were for the most part missing! Yes, it was a men's club, with some notable exceptions, such as Yifat Oron from Vertex, and Ronit Koren from Battery. Men outnumbered women in the room at least 50 to 1. Maybe more.
Not exactly real life, huh? Perhaps that is why the Israeli venture community is so slow to commit to Web X.0--they just don't get it.
I hope the ratios improve. Figuring out the future when half the population is not even in the room doesn't sound like a great way to start. Very 20th century. If Israel is to get serious about going beyond where it is, we need to start embracing all the people.
Went to the iDrink event last night and thought about the same issue. It seems that for iDronk, the ratio is changing. I estimate that yesterday it was about 5 to 1. That's already much better and I hope it will improve in the future.
Posted by: Yaniv Axen | October 24, 2007 at 07:55 AM
they are all playing casual games online
Posted by: GJ | November 16, 2007 at 06:28 PM