Start-up Nation

by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

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  INTERVIEWS

  Abizaid, General John (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command; May 2009.

  Agassi, Reuven (Shai’s father), member of the start-up council for Technion; December 2008.

  Agassi, Shai, founder and CEO, Better Place; March 2008 and March 2009.

  Air Force trainer, IDF; May 2008.

  al-Allawi, Riad, Jordanian entrepreneur; March 2009.

  Alon, Ruti, partner, Pitango Venture Capital; chairperson, boards of BioControl, BrainsGate, and TransPharma Medical; December 2008.

  Amir, David (fictitious name), pilot, Israeli Air Force; August 2008.

  Andreessen, Marc, founder, Netscape; July 2009.

  Applbaum, Isaac (Yitz), venture partner, The Westly Group; May 2008.

  Ariav, Yoram, director general, Israel Ministry of Finance; January 2009.

  Asa-el, Amotz, founding president, BusinessWeek Israel, and former executive editor, Jerusalem Post; May 2008.

  Avner, Yehuda, adviser to Israeli prime ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres; ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia; April 2008.

  Bachar, Yossi, former director general, Ministry of Finance; May 2008.

  Barkat, Eli, chairman and cofounder, BRM Group; January 2009.

  Ben-David, Dan, Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University; June 2008.

  Ben-Ephraim, Brigadier General Rami, head of personnel division, Israeli Air Force; November 2008.

  Berry, Orna, venture partner, Gemini Israel Funds; January 2009.

  Bialkin, Kenneth J., partner, Skadden, Arps; January 2009.

  Brodet, David, former director general, Ministry of Finance; May 2008.

  Brokaw, Tom, author, The Greatest Generation; April 2009.

  Catalano-Sherman, Joni, corporate director of technology transfer and academic relations, Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT); December 2008.

  Chaliva, Colonel Aaron, commander of officer training base, Bahad 1, IDF; December 2008.

  Chase, Al, founder, White Rhino Partners; February 2009.

  Cohen, Eliot A., counselor to the State Department; former director of the Strategic Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; January 2009.

  Davidson, Christopher M., author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success; March 2009.

  Davis, Tim, director, Entrepreneurship Indicators Project, OECD; March 2009.

  De Haan, Uzi, William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion; July 2008.

  Dermer, Ron, former economic attaché, Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., and senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; September 2008.

  Dilian, Colonel Tal (res.), former 8100 chief; member of the board of directors, Atidim; May 2008.

  Doron, Daniel, president, Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress; August 2008.

  Dotan, Yuval (fictitious name), fighter pilot, Israeli Air Force; May 2008.

  Edelstein, Yuli, former minister of absorption; member of Knesset; May 2008.

  Eden, Shmuel (Mooly), vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms Group, Intel; November 2008.

  Edry, Illy, founder and chief strategist, Poptok; May 2008.

  Eisenberg, Michael, partner, Benchmark Capital; May 2009.

  Elias, Asher, Tech Careers; March 2009.

  Epstein, Asher, director, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland; May 2008.

  Erlich, Yigal, founder, chairman, and managing partner, Yozma Group; May 2008.

  Farhi, Major Gilad, commander in the Kfir infantry unit, IDF; November 2008.

  Fick, Nathaniel, chief operating officer, Center for a New American Security; author, One Bullet Away; March 2008.

  Friedman, Thomas, columnist, New York Times; April 2009.

  Galil, Uzia, chairman and CEO, Uzia Initiatives & Management Ltd; July 2008.

  Gerson, Mark, executive chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group; January 2009.

  Gidron, Rafi, and Orni Petruschka, cofounders, Precede Technologies, Chromatis Networks, and Scorpio Communications; December 2008.

  Giladi, Brigadier General Eival (res.), CEO, Portland Trust; March 2009.

  Goren, Amos, venture partner, Apax Partners; January 2009.

  Grinstein, Gidi, founder and president, Reut Institute; May and August 2008.

  Gross, Yossi, director and cofounder, TransPharma Medical; founder of many medical-device start-ups; December 2008.

  Hamed, Colonel Ramiz, head of the Minorities Unit, Human Resources Branch, IDF; November 2008.

  Harris, Clinton P., founder and managing partner, Grove Street Advisors; founder and former managing director, Advent International; January 2009.

  Haug, Laurent, founder and CEO, Lift Conference; May 2009.

  Hausmann, Ricardo, former Venezuelan minister of state and current director of the Harvard Center for International Development; February 2009.

  Ivri, David, former ambassador to the United States and former chief commander of the Israeli Air Force; December 2008.

  Kagan, Frederick W., military historian; resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI); December 2008.

  Kaplinsky, Major General Moshe (res.), CEO, Better Place Israel; November 2008.

  Kaufmann, Yadin, founding partner, Veritas Venture Partners; December 2008.

  Keinan, Tal, cofounder, KCPS; May and December 2008.

  Kerbs, Gil, venture capitalist and contributor to Forbes; January 2009.

  Ketels, Christian H. M., economist, member of the Harvard Business School faculty and of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness; March 2009.

  Kohlberg, Isaac
T., senior associate provost and chief technology development officer, Harvard University; January 2009.

  Kranz, Eugene (Gene) F., former flight director and manager, NASA; May 2009.

  Laor, Michael, founder of Cisco Systems Development Center in Israel; February 2009.

  Lipow, Jonathan, Department of Economics, Oberlin University; May 2008.

  Lipsky, David, author, Absolutely American; March 2009.

  Lowry, Colonel John (res.), general manager, Harley-Davidson Motor Company; November 2008.

  Luttwak, Edward, senior associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); December 2008.

  Luttwak, Yael, former commander in tank gunnery course, IDF; documentary filmmaker; August 2008.

  Maarek, Yoelle, former director, Google’s R&D Center in Haifa, Israel; January 2009.

  Maoz, Darya, anthropologist, the Hebrew University; June 2009.

  Margalit, Erel, founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP); May 2008.

  Matanya, Aviatar, senior officer, Talpiot program; December 2008.

  Matias, Yossi, director, Google’s R&D Center in Tel Aviv, Israel; January 2009.

  McLaughlin, Andrew, director, public policy and government affairs for Google; January 2009.

  McMaster, Brigadier General H. R., U.S. Army; May 2009.

  McWilliams, David, Irish economist; July 2009.

  Medved, Jon, CEO and board member, Vringo; May 2008.

  Messer-Yaron, Hagit, president, Open University; January 2009.

  Mitchell, Lesa, vice president, Kauffman Foundation; March 2009.

  Mlavsky, Ed, chairman and founding partner, Gemini Israel Funds; December 2008.

  Molla, Shlomo (Neguse), member of Knesset, Kadima Party; March 2009.

  Moralli, Dorit, owner, El Lobo restaurant and guesthouse in La Paz, Bolivia; March 2009.

  Nagel, Brigadier General Jacob (res.), deputy director of Mafat, IDF; December 2008.

  Netanyahu, Benjamin, prime minister of Israel; December 2008.

  Newbold, General Gregory (ret.), former director of operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff; May 2009.

  Ofer, Idan, chairman of the board, Better Place; December 2008.

  Oren, Michael, senior fellow, Shalem Center; May 2008.

  Peled, Dan, Department of Economics, University of Haifa; July 2008.