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Nordau to NASDAQ: The Evolution of an Israeli High-Tech Start-Up
A Second Updated Edition
by Miriah Yahil-Wax & Roni A. Einav
“So how much are we worth, in your opinion?” I spoke up. “If some party, yours perhaps, would be interested in merging with us tomorrow morning, how much would we be worth?” Rick Gardner lifted his glass to the light, relished its crimson transparency and said: “My estimate for your company is between $600 and $620 million.” Then he smiled once more and emptied his glass. This crucial meeting with co-founder Roni Einav marks a turning point in the history of The New Dimension Software, one of Israel’s most successful software companies at the time, which was eventually sold to Texas-based BMC Software for $675 million. Armed only with an M.A. degree in engineering and operations research from the Technion, plus his unshaken resilience and determination, Mr. Einav (Roni, as his friends and colleagues call him) started to make his way. The book candidly exposes the power struggles and bold decisions that led to the extraordinary success of The New Dimension. Mr. Einav's analysis of his extensive experience touches upon trade secrets: How do you recognize a good idea? How do you cope with bureaucracy or inner dissent? How do you identify or create a significant share for your software products in the global market? Where do you seek financing and what do you do when none is found? Roni Einav's personal journey coincides with that of the State of Israel, from its inception. He served his country as a system analyst in its defense forces, and as a civilian he participated in the planning and construction of major new towns in pre-revolutionary Iran. Nordau to NASDAQ is a unique and true example of the bigger story of the amazing talents, daring, leadership and dedication that made possible the birth and ascent to prominence of the Israeli high-tech industry, which led to the country often being called a “start-up nation.” This second updated edition also covers the last twenty years of the author’s career and his active involvement in various technology start-ups, including the founding of high-tech companies such as Jacada, White Source, Eurekify, and thirty other ventures. An English-language eBook edition was published in 2012 and translated into several languages. A Second updated edition has been scheduled for publication in Fall 2024 by Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc., CA. 288 pages , 15x 22.5 cm
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TO MILK A UNICORN
Start-ups and Magic in the Holy Land
by Roni Einav & Zvi Morik
TO MILK A UNICORN Start-ups and Magic in the Holy Land Roni Einav & Zvi Morik Eric Torrance and Ruth Lourie are two lovely American recent graduates in their early twenties who met during their last year in college and quickly became a couple. The following summer, they plan to vacation together to Israel, the start-up unicorn valley and cradle of the world’s major religions. They look forward to an exciting journey. Eric, the third son of a New York Wall Street businessman and a stage performer, both of the Protestant faith, studied applied mathematics and computer science at Columbia University. Later, he moved to Berkeley, California, where he planned to earn his master’s degree and hoped to join the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley. Ruth is the elder daughter of a Jewish family from Los Altos, California, whose father was an Israeli navy officer and is currently a dentist, and her mother a Jewish American high school Spanish teacher, originally from Santiago, Chile. Ruth studied anthropology and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is keenly interested in exploring ancient occult knowledge in Israel. In Tel Aviv the couple enjoys meeting with Ruth’s father’s old friend, a leading start-up founder and investor with proven success who is ready to guide them and help Eric find his way into Israel’s high-tech ecosystem. While touring the country, they manage to explore other exciting magic worlds in Israel and meet a host of intriguing characters, including a powerful Kabbalah mystic in holy Safed, a terrifying Arab woman who tells their fortune, an expert of the secret Druze religion, peaceful Ahmadi Muslims in Haifa, and Good Samaritans on Mount Gerizim. The couple even experiences a startling Christian miracle at St. Peter’s Church in Jaffa, learns about the Neolithic sites of sun worshippers in the Golan, and is initiated into the original Israeli self-defense Krav Maga discipline. During this spiritual quest, Ruth and Eric encounter a series of hair-raising experiences and daring adventures—which they barely survive. Upon transitioning from vacation to business activity, Eric is hired to build the Samaritans’ website while visiting Mount Gerizim and finds himself grounded there by the chief of the CIA in Israel who is controlling him, and in a strange relationship with a Ukrainian widow. Ruth, who is left on her own, unexpectedly finds a new boyfriend, Uri Canaan, a high-tech entrepreneur whose company has been developing and promoting a life-saving seismic alert system for multiple sectors. They meet on the evening of October 6, 2023, looking to join the Nova music party near the Gaza Strip. Suddenly, in a shocking turn, battalions of Hamas terrorists invade Israel in a bloody surge of violence and murder against innocent civilians. Fortunately, Uri manages to use his past skills as a trained fighter, and they survive. Three months later, Ruth resumes her affair with Uri when he is released from reserve duty as a commando fighter. After a heated romantic weekend at a Japanese B&B in the Galilee, Ruth eventually joins her boyfriend’s start-up company at his partners‘ request. They trust that with her fluent Spanish and Japanese, as well as her intelligence and youthful charm, she will be able to communicate with their current and future customers and help them license the company’s software products in Chile, Mexico, Japan, and North America, particularly in California where she came from. Lora, the company’s account manager who trains Ruth is a dominant and energetic manager of the Christian Arab community, and they soon become close friends. Together they travel to their target markets in Chile and Mexico, in addition to California and, finally, Ruth travels on her own to Japan. At home, Ruth and Uri reunite and the book reaches its enigmatic and touching end. Roni Einav is one of the first pioneers who initiated the myth of Israel’s high-tech industry, aka “Start-up Nation,” in the 1980s. Born to a modest blue-collar family in northern Tel Aviv, where he grew up and was educated, he learned that he could only count on his own skills and knowledge. Einav graduated with a degree in engineering and operations research from the Technion in Haifa, a highly acclaimed technical institute, and worked as a system analyst for Israel’s cutting-edge security infrastructure. After he followed his father’s advice to run his own business, Einav broke all Israeli records when he sold the 4th Dimension Software in 1999 for $675 million, a unicorn in modern terms, to BMC Software in Houston, Texas. Despite his impressive success, Einav didn’t slow down or retire. Instead, he kept busy and remained actively involved in various technology start-ups, founding more than thirty high-tech companies, including Jacada, Mend (formerly White Source), Cyboard, Guidde, and Eurekify. His dramatic life story was depicted in Nordau to Nasdaq, which was translated and published in several languages. Roni Einav is married to Matia, an architect and town planner who also graduated from the Technion. They have raised four sons, all of them active in the start-up or academic scenes, and hope that their gifted grandchildren will also follow in their footsteps. Zvi Morik is a seasoned international publisher and editor with a solid academic background from Tel Aviv University in mathematical economics, stochastic processes, operations research, and game theory. His company, Dekel Publishing House (est. 1975), was initially an academic publisher that then branched out into various popular fields, such as martial arts and leisure activities. Its flagship product, the Israeli self-defense Krav Maga series, was successfully published and translated into English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and most European languages. Having noticed the key role that start-ups play in Israel’s economy and their benefits to society, he was delighted by the opportunity to write this book with Roni Einav, his charismatic youth movement instructor. Morik believes that this book will help interested readers to better understand the hidden magical facets of Israel, as well as the spirit of its dynamic and often enigmatic modern start-up scene. Zvi Morik was born at an UNRRA DP camp in Odenwald, Germany, and immigrated with his parents to Israel as a baby. He is married to Pnina Ophir, a renowned Israeli copywriter. Their son, a Middle East expert, works as the export manager at Dekel Publishing House.
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September 2018Jacobin
Die Anthologie
by Loren Balhorn, Bhaskar Sunkara, Stephan Gebauer
»Ein Licht in dunklen Zeiten.« Noam Chomsky Enthält ein Interview mit Bernie Sanders! Seit 2010 mischt Jacobin als Sprachrohr der neuen amerikanischen Linken die intellektuelle Szene in den USA auf. In dem Magazin treten junge Autorinnen und Autoren offen für den Sozialismus ein, und das im Land des Hyperkapitalismus. Mit polemischen Artikeln entwickelte sich Jacobin schnell zu einem einflussreichen Ideengeber für Occupy Wall Street und die Bewegung um Bernie Sanders. Inzwischen erscheint die Zeitschrift in einer Auflage von 30.000 Exemplaren, online erreicht sie jeden Monat rund eine Million Leser. Dieser Band versammelt erstmals eine Auswahl von Beiträgen auf Deutsch. In den Texten zur Identitätspolitik und zu Black Lives Matter, zum Stand des Kapitalismus und der Kapitalismuskritik sowie zum »Zombie-Marxismus« und dem Aufstieg Donald Trumps zeichnen sich die Konturen eines politischen Programms ab, das fraglos auch hierzulande die Diskussionen um eine strategische Neuausrichtung der Linken befruchten wird.
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January 1992Die Frau im Mann
Die Wiederentdeckung der weiblichen Kräfte, die aus einem halben Menschen einen ganzen Mann machen
by Pedersen, Loren E / Übersetzt von VomScheidt, Elke
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September 2014Der Buchjäger
Biblio-Mysteries 9
by Estleman, Loren D. / Übersetzt von Visintini, Silvia
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August 2011Von euch will ich singen
Ein Brief an meine Töchter
by Obama, Barack / Illustriert von Long, Loren; Übersetzt von Krüger, Michael
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June 1976Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation
Soziogenetische und psychogenetische Untersuchungen
by Norbert Elias
Die Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die langfristigen Transformationen der Gesellschafts- und Persönlichkeitsstukturen weitgehend aus den Augen ver-loren. Im Werk von Norbert Elias sind gerade diese langfristigen Prozesse das zentrale Thema: Wie ging eigentlich die »Zivilisation« im Abendlande vor sich? Worin bestand sie? Und welches waren ihre Antriebe, ihre Ursachen oder Motoren? Bei Elias' Arbeit handelt es sich weder um eine Untersuchung über eine »Evolution« im Sinne des 19. Jahrhunderts noch um eine Untersuchung über einen unspezifischen »sozialen Wandel« im Sinne des 20.; seine Arbeit ist grundlegend für eine undogmatische, empirisch fundierte soziologische Theorie sozialer Prozesse. Die Kassette beinhaltet Band 1 (Wandlungen des Verhaltens in den weltlichen Oberschichten des Abendlandes) und Band 2 (Wandlungen der Gesellschaft. Entwurf zu einer Theorie der Zivilisation).
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Biography: general2018TEURA. SOPHIA YABLONSKA
by Oksana Zabuzhko, foreword
"TEURA. SOFIA YABLONSKA" is a project that presents an outstanding Ukrainian female photographer, writer, traveler, and film documentarian Sophia Yablonska. It combines a photo album and 3 books of traveling prose from the literary heritage of Sofia Yablonska (1907-1971) Sophia was called "Theura" - a red bird - and thus recognized as female native of the island of Bora Bora, where she was one of the first to appear with a photo and film camera. In Indochina, Egypt, Ceylon, Bali, Tahiti, New Zealand - everywhere in the world, she filmed a "live" picture of life, and not fashionable productions at that time. The photo album, which was printed in Ukrainian and French (separate versions) with the support of the UKRAINIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION, includes her photos from a trip around the world in the 1930s. Foreword - Oksana Zabuzhko (Kyiv) Photos from the archive of Natalie Udin, Yablonska's granddaughter (Paris) Biography: Veronika Khomenyuk and Andrii Benytskyi (Lviv) Photo captions: Natalka Beshta (Bangkok) Selection of illustrations and design (almost curators): Maria Norazyan and Ilya Pavlov, Grafprom studio (Kharkiv) Project manager: Lidia Likhach"
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Memoirs2018The Charm of Morocco
by Sophia Yablonska
"The Charm of Morocco" is the debut travel novel of the Ukrainian traveler, writer, artist and photographer Sofia Yablonska, first published in Lviv in 1932. The author lived in Morocco for four months, during which she researched and described Arab Africa. The writer's report is deeply personal, her unbiased view of this country is devoid of French influence and established genre traditions of the exotic novel, despite the fact that Sofia had already lived in Paris for several years before going to Morocco. It describes the different strata of Arab society, their relations with each other and with foreigners, the position of women and the Berber tribes free from the European protectorate. The 2018 edition is part of the TEURA art project. Sofia Yablonska", the purpose of which is to return Sofia Yablonska to the cultural discourse and establish her as a relevant character of Ukrainian art. In addition to "The Charm of Morocco", two other travel novels by Sofia - "From the Land of Rye and Opium" and "Far Horizons", as well as a book of her photos taken in the 1930s - will be published as part of the project. Compilers: Andrii Benytskyi, Veronika Khomeniuk Designer: Volodymyr Gavrish The publication was made with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Faundation
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April 1986
Das Tagebuch der Sophia
Aus dem Chinesischen übersetzt von dem Arbeitskreis 'Moderne Chinesische Literatur' am Ostasiatischen Seminar der Freien Universität Berlin (Bernd Fischer, Anna Gerstlacher, Johanna Graefe, Renate Krieg, Wolfgang Kubin, Julia Lore Mollée, Eva Sternfeld)
by Ding Ling
