Tel Aviv One Of The World's Most Innovative Cities

[JStone]

Tel Aviv: One of the World's Most Creative Cities
The world's most creative cities - The Globe and Mail

Innovation can happen anywhere. It shouldn’t be solely entrusted to Cupertino or Mountain View nor should it be limited to self-styled visionaries in New Balance sneakers. But it does seem to happen in clusters. Why Silicon Valley? Why Waterloo? Because creativity is cultural. For the better part of a decade, the Martin Prosperity Institute at U of T’s Rotman School of Management has been studying the complex web of factors that encourage and sustain innovation in regions around the world. First published in 2004, the institute’s Global Creativity Index measures a nation’s innovation potential, focusing on what it calls the Three Ts: technology, talent and tolerance. We used this index, but also dove deeper, to choose cities that are best positioned to nurture their creative edge into the future. "The GCI is really trying to help regions understand where they are," explains Kevin Stolarick, research director of the Martin Prosperity Institute. "Even when times are good, you have to worry about what comes next." Here are five cities —and some of their start-ups—that we think have very bright futures.

The entire population of Israel may only number seven million—smaller than New York City—but this Middle Eastern state spends more of its GDP on research and development than any other nation. And it shows. In April, 2011, Israeli software start-ups PicApp and PicScout sold for a combined $30 million (all currency in U.S. dollars) to Indian and American buyers, respectively. A month later, cellular company Provigent was snapped up by U.S. chip maker Broadcom for $313 million, while Google paid $70 million for app developer Snaptu. In September, eBay bought e-commerce site The Gifts Project for a reported $20 million. All are start-ups. All have offices in or near Tel Aviv. In the first three quarters of 2011 alone, 422 Israeli start-ups raised $1.57 billion in venture capital, and an estimated 250 multinationals maintain R&D operations there. What makes Silicon Wadi—as the coastal region between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is known—so special? Some say that a service requirement in the country’s famously high-tech military has given many young Israelis a technological sophistication that bolsters creativity and inventiveness. What we do know is that while Tel Aviv is small, it’s one giant innovation engine.

 

[High_Gravity]

I heard its amazing there, wouldn't mind visiting one day.

 

[Jos]

You should go see for yourself
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuMFAgGdd1E]Israeli Racist Against Black People - YouTube[/ame]

 

[High_Gravity]

You should go see for yourself
Israeli Racist Against Black People - YouTube

Theres racism like that everywhere though, even here in the US. If I was scared of racism I wouldn't be able to leave my house.

 

[JStone]

Tel Aviv: One of the World's Most Creative Cities
The world's most creative cities - The Globe and Mail

Innovation can happen anywhere. It shouldn’t be solely entrusted to Cupertino or Mountain View nor should it be limited to self-styled visionaries in New Balance sneakers. But it does seem to happen in clusters. Why Silicon Valley? Why Waterloo? Because creativity is cultural. For the better part of a decade, the Martin Prosperity Institute at U of T’s Rotman School of Management has been studying the complex web of factors that encourage and sustain innovation in regions around the world. First published in 2004, the institute’s Global Creativity Index measures a nation’s innovation potential, focusing on what it calls the Three Ts: technology, talent and tolerance. We used this index, but also dove deeper, to choose cities that are best positioned to nurture their creative edge into the future. "The GCI is really trying to help regions understand where they are," explains Kevin Stolarick, research director of the Martin Prosperity Institute. "Even when times are good, you have to worry about what comes next." Here are five cities —and some of their start-ups—that we think have very bright futures.

Here’s how we form start-ups in Israel: A bunch of guys meet up, usually over beer; one of them comes up with an idea, everybody gets excited and, minutes later, there’s a company,” says Gil Hirsch, who founded Face.com in Tel Aviv with three colleagues. The idea to create a fast, highly accurate facial recognition platform—one that can identify faces in digital photographs, even at varying angles and orientations—grew out of a recurring techie meet-up that Hirsch led for several years out of a Tel Aviv auto garage.

“The most important piece was the technology,” he says. Officially launched in March of 2009, Face.com’s software spoke for itself when it was presented to early investors. A $200,000 seed investment came first, followed by $1 million in the company’s first significant stage of funding. In 2010, another $4.3-million round of financing included a substantial investment from Russian search engine specialist Yandex.

But Face.com really made waves when Facebook integrated its site. Two Facebook-specific apps—Photo Finder and Photo Tagger—spawned calls from other developers eager to work with the technology. To gain market traction, Face.com offers its base API code for free, and currently has 30,000 developers using the platform, including an increasing number of mobile developers. Large-scale users, namely those who want to process more than 5,000 images per hour, pay a per-usage rate.

While Hirsch now spends about one week per month in California, the company’s 10 employees remain based in Tel Aviv. “When it comes to things like facial recognition, Israel’s engineering talent is huge, and the prices are sane,” says Hirsch. “There’s also no fear of failure here. Just a fear of not trying"

 

[ima]

If Tel Aviv is so amazing, why is it only arabs and jews fighting over it? Why don't normal people want a piece of the pie too?

 

[Lipush]

If Tel Aviv is so amazing, why is it only arabs and jews fighting over it? Why don't normal people want a piece of the pie too?

Not only Arabs and Jews, also Thais, Chinese, Sudanies, etc. totally not alone.

 

[ima]

If Tel Aviv is so amazing, why is it only arabs and jews fighting over it? Why don't normal people want a piece of the pie too?

Not only Arabs and Jews, also Thais, Chinese, Sudanies, etc. totally not alone.

The Thais and Chinese are fighting over Tel Aviv? Hmmm, not too sure about that.

 

[Lipush]

If Tel Aviv is so amazing, why is it only arabs and jews fighting over it? Why don't normal people want a piece of the pie too?

Not only Arabs and Jews, also Thais, Chinese, Sudanies, etc. totally not alone.

The Thais and Chinese are fighting over Tel Aviv? Hmmm, not too sure about that.

Do you know how many foreigners are in Israel? how many of them in Tel Aviv?

 

[JStone]

Tel Aviv: One of the World's Most Creative Cities

The world's most creative cities - The Globe and Mail

Innovation can happen anywhere. It shouldn’t be solely entrusted to Cupertino or Mountain View nor should it be limited to self-styled visionaries in New Balance sneakers. But it does seem to happen in clusters. Why Silicon Valley? Why Waterloo? Because creativity is cultural. For the better part of a decade, the Martin Prosperity Institute at U of T’s Rotman School of Management has been studying the complex web of factors that encourage and sustain innovation in regions around the world. First published in 2004, the institute’s Global Creativity Index measures a nation’s innovation potential, focusing on what it calls the Three Ts: technology, talent and tolerance. We used this index, but also dove deeper, to choose cities that are best positioned to nurture their creative edge into the future. "The GCI is really trying to help regions understand where they are," explains Kevin Stolarick, research director of the Martin Prosperity Institute. "Even when times are good, you have to worry about what comes next." Here are five cities —and some of their start-ups—that we think have very bright futures.

The most important piece was the technology,” he says. Officially launched in March of 2009, Face.com’s software spoke for itself when it was presented to early investors. A $200,000 seed investment came first, followed by $1 million in the company’s first significant stage of funding. In 2010, another $4.3-million round of financing included a substantial investment from Russian search engine specialist Yandex.

But Face.com really made waves when Facebook integrated its site. Two Facebook-specific apps—Photo Finder and Photo Tagger—spawned calls from other developers eager to work with the technology. To gain market traction, Face.com offers its base API code for free, and currently has 30,000 developers using the platform, including an increasing number of mobile developers. Large-scale users, namely those who want to process more than 5,000 images per hour, pay a per-usage rate.

While Hirsch now spends about one week per month in California, the company’s 10 employees remain based in Tel Aviv. “When it comes to things like facial recognition, Israel’s engineering talent is huge, and the prices are sane,” says Hirsch. “There’s also no fear of failure here. Just a fear of not trying"

Winston Churchill...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
Amazon.com: The River War (9781598184259): Sir Winston S. Churchill: Books

 

[Lipush]

lot cooler is seeing Tel Aviv in the social protest.

 

[ima]

Not only Arabs and Jews, also Thais, Chinese, Sudanies, etc. totally not alone.

The Thais and Chinese are fighting over Tel Aviv? Hmmm, not too sure about that.

Do you know how many foreigners are in Israel? how many of them in Tel Aviv?

The foreigners aren't fighting over it, just the jews and arabs.

 

[JStone]

The Thais and Chinese are fighting over Tel Aviv? Hmmm, not too sure about that.

Do you know how many foreigners are in Israel? how many of them in Tel Aviv?

The foreigners aren't fighting over it, just the jews and arabs.

Your Jew Envy is showing, loser

THE ISRAEL TEST: THE NATION IS A SYMBOL OF THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN ACHIEVEMENT AND ENVY

The prime issue is not a global war of civilizations between the West and Islam or a split between Arabs and Jews. These conflicts are real and salient, but they obscure the deeper moral and ideological war. The real issue is between admiration of achievement versus envy and resentment of it.

he test can be summarized by a few questions: What is your attitude toward people who excel you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishments? Do you aspire to their excellence, or do you seethe at it? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement, or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?

In countries where Jews are free to invent and create, they pile up conspicuous wealth and arouse envy and suspicion. In this age of information, when the achievements of mind have widely outpaced the power of masses and material force, Jews have forged much of the science and wealth of the era. Their pioneering contributions to quantum theory enabled the digital age. Their breakthroughs in nuclear science and computer science propelled the West to victory in World War II and the cold war. Their bioengineering inventions have enhanced the health, and their microchip designs are fueling the growth of nations everywhere. Their genius has leavened the culture and economy of the world.

Israel today concentrates the genius of the Jews. Obscured by the usual media coverage of the "war-torn" Middle East, Israel's rarely celebrated feats of commercial, scientific, and technological creativity climax the Jews' twentieth-century saga of triumph over tragedy. Today tiny Israel, with its population of 7.23 million, five and one-half million Jewish, stands behind only the United States in technological contributions. In per-capita innovation, Israel dwarfs all nations. The forces of civilization in the world continue to feed upon the quintessential wealth of mind epitomized by Israel.

With a gross domestic product of around $200.7 billion (2008), per-capita income of some $28,200, and close to a trillion dollars of market capitalization for its companies, Israel these days is rich.

Since across the world economy today this scenario is most starkly enacted in the Middle East -- in the Palestinian territories -- all these synaptic suicide bombers of the brain focus instinctively on the Israel test. They know well which side they are on. Which side are you on?
THE ISRAEL TEST - NYPOST.com

 

[Lipush]

The Thais and Chinese are fighting over Tel Aviv? Hmmm, not too sure about that.

Do you know how many foreigners are in Israel? how many of them in Tel Aviv?

The foreigners aren't fighting over it, just the jews and arabs.

Have you ever been in Israel? just out of curiousity.

 

[ima]

Do you know how many foreigners are in Israel? how many of them in Tel Aviv?

The foreigners aren't fighting over it, just the jews and arabs.

Have you ever been in Israel? just out of curiousity.

It's on my no-fly list. Way too dangerous. Anyways, if i want some sand, I can order it by the truckload and it's pretty cheap too.

 

[Lipush]

The foreigners aren't fighting over it, just the jews and arabs.

Have you ever been in Israel? just out of curiousity.

It's on my no-fly list. Way too dangerous. Anyways, if i want some sand, I can order it by the truckload and it's pretty cheap too.

That's just disturbing on so many levels

Still, I somehow wonder how can you pretend to know something which you have never seen with your own eyes, or experienced on your own flesh.

Second of all, Israel is not dengarous as people paint it to be. Sad that people fall into that propaganda.

More likely you'll die in a car accident then in security incident.

 

[JStone]

The foreigners aren't fighting over it, just the jews and arabs.

Have you ever been in Israel? just out of curiousity.

It's on my no-fly list. Way too dangerous. Anyways, if i want some sand, I can order it by the truckload and it's pretty cheap too.

Your Jew Envy is showing, loser.

THE ISRAEL TEST: THE NATION IS A SYMBOL OF THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN ACHIEVEMENT AND ENVY

The prime issue is not a global war of civilizations between the West and Islam or a split between Arabs and Jews. These conflicts are real and salient, but they obscure the deeper moral and ideological war. The real issue is between admiration of achievement versus envy and resentment of it.

he test can be summarized by a few questions: What is your attitude toward people who excel you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishments? Do you aspire to their excellence, or do you seethe at it? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement, or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?

In countries where Jews are free to invent and create, they pile up conspicuous wealth and arouse envy and suspicion. In this age of information, when the achievements of mind have widely outpaced the power of masses and material force, Jews have forged much of the science and wealth of the era. Their pioneering contributions to quantum theory enabled the digital age. Their breakthroughs in nuclear science and computer science propelled the West to victory in World War II and the cold war. Their bioengineering inventions have enhanced the health, and their microchip designs are fueling the growth of nations everywhere. Their genius has leavened the culture and economy of the world.

Israel today concentrates the genius of the Jews. Obscured by the usual media coverage of the "war-torn" Middle East, Israel's rarely celebrated feats of commercial, scientific, and technological creativity climax the Jews' twentieth-century saga of triumph over tragedy. Today tiny Israel, with its population of 7.23 million, five and one-half million Jewish, stands behind only the United States in technological contributions. In per-capita innovation, Israel dwarfs all nations. The forces of civilization in the world continue to feed upon the quintessential wealth of mind epitomized by Israel.

With a gross domestic product of around $200.7 billion (2008), per-capita income of some $28,200, and close to a trillion dollars of market capitalization for its companies, Israel these days is rich.

Since across the world economy today this scenario is most starkly enacted in the Middle East -- in the Palestinian territories -- all these synaptic suicide bombers of the brain focus instinctively on the Israel test. They know well which side they are on. Which side are you on?
THE ISRAEL TEST - NYPOST.com

 

[Douger]

If Tel Aviv is so amazing, why is it only arabs and jews fighting over it? Why don't normal people want a piece of the pie too?

Because it's full of Arabs and Jews.

 

[ima]

Have you ever been in Israel? just out of curiousity.

It's on my no-fly list. Way too dangerous. Anyways, if i want some sand, I can order it by the truckload and it's pretty cheap too.

That's just disturbing on so many levels

Still, I somehow wonder how can you pretend to know something which you have never seen with your own eyes, or experienced on your own flesh.

Second of all, Israel is not dengarous as people paint it to be. Sad that people fall into that propaganda.

More likely you'll die in a car accident then in security incident.

I can't go to a country that has a million checkpoints and where every arab you pass on the street might blow you to smithereens as you walk by him. Taking the bus would also make me sweat big time.
I don't need to go to watch someone die in an electric chair to be against that.
And great, I have EVEN MORE chance of getting hit by a car in Israel than getting blown up. Now that's reassuring!!!

 

[JStone]

If Tel Aviv is so amazing, why is it only arabs and jews fighting over it? Why don't normal people want a piece of the pie too?

Because it's full of Arabs and Jews.

Israel has produced 6 Nobel Prize Laureates in science and economics.

Your shithole Ireland: Zero Nobel Prize Laureates in science and economics.