Friday, July 20, 2012

3 Day Startup Showcases in Bangkok!

There's a very interesting thing going on in Bangkok right now. With the establishment of the governmental MICT department in recent years, since the Thai government realized it had missed the Technology Wave, huge amounts of investment have gone into IT technology and infrastructure. In addition to that, a whole plethora of additional technical schools and universities have popped up, pumping out thousands of skilled Thai engineers every...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

3 Day Startup Israel - Incorporated!

Big day for all of us! 3 Day Startup Israel - is now an official title. We are incorporated as an Israeli NPO, with 14 active members on staff and 8 on the board. So Super Big Hugs™ to everyone involved. Its been a long journey here, and we deserve to smile on our future, for that future is bright indeed. Also a big shout out to Alan Weinkrantz for attending the entire process and turning it into a momentous occassion! Indeed - signing the...

Friday, June 29, 2012

3DS Haifa looks promising!

Greetings my good folks - yesterday was an awesome experience to meet up with so many bright and beautiful people in Haifa to discuss 3DS Haifa event. The young adults center recently built by the municipality of Haifa - who also hosted last year's Startup Weekend - gathered a great meeting of minds for us. We met with the Technion Entrepreneurship center Director, a representative of the Boston-Haifa connection, and of course the various people involved with Haifa and the young adult center entrepreneurship programs. Shai - a graduate of the...

Saturday, June 23, 2012

3 Day Startup Luxembourg!

Yea folks. Thats right. 3 Day Startup is about to collision crash with cindarella-land (sorry - but thats the only way I can describe Lux...lol;) Train Station in Leige, with a happy looking 3DS Graduate, Elan Perach, ready to rock! I told you! Cindarella land! This is the middle of town! They definitely like their Nutella in Luxembourg!!! Brian Wong definitely kicked ass on stage.And these 2 twins co-founded a startup together, and...

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

3DS South gets a kickstart...

Our southern brother - Andrew Naumenko - setup a really great meeting today with SCE (Shamoon College of Engineering - http://www.sce.ac.il/eng/) which has a beautiful, compact campus which looks like a frikkin spaceship! Seriously. Its cool. Cool enough to have a 3DS for sure. Regretfully I was not thinking enough to take a few photos of the exterior - but here are a few of the interior. Lets see if Ben Gurion can match that. Personally...

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

What It's Like To Be The CEO: Revelations and Reflections

[Full Credits: OnStartups.com] Dont agree with every single tidbit, but the majority of it - couldnt agree more! My favorite part: "You begin to realize that in life, the luckiest people in the World only get one shot at being a part of something great. Knowing this helps you make sense of your commitment." The following is a guest post from Paul DeJoe, founder at Ecquire and EIR at Fairbridge Venture Partners. This article is...

Sunday, June 3, 2012

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Ramat Gan & Be'er Sheva wrapping up

After a visit and some discussions with Ramat Gan - it looks like everything is agreeable and should be confirmed soon. If they have no objections to the contract, that will be signed soon which will confirm a Bar-Ilan event in the fall 2012. Be'er Sheva also looks to be a go, with Andrew in the south setting up a final meeting with the administration there in the coming weeks to make agreements and sign contracts. I know I shouldnt jump ahead - but we have tried hard to make good relationships with these universities - both of them - and unless...

Friday, May 11, 2012

3DS Israel Blogsite

Welcome to the new blogsite. Its been a long-time needed, but now that 3DS is going to be setting up multiple events all across the country - its about high time that we organize this. Feel free to leave comments - I've left the contact page open for commenting and will also put up contact details for those interested in a more private discussi...

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Tel Aviv

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