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The MIT Enterprise Forum
It's tough to make predictions, especially about
the future - Yogi Berra

• Ingredients for a successful start up
• The Ins and Outs of Starting Up
• Travel Tips for your Internet Ride
• Trends Business Models

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Capital Raised by Israeli Hi-Tech Companies
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Capital Raised by Sector
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Capital Raised by Internet Companies
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The MIT Enterprise ForumWW chapters

• Atlanta GA Austin TX Great Lakes MICH Boca
  Raton FL Cambridge MA Chicago IL Hartford
  CT Dallas / Fort Worth TX Houston TX
  Peterborough NH New York NY Pasadena CA
  Pittsburgh PA San Diego CA Santa Barbara CA
  Bay Area CA Seattle WA Sterling VA Canada
  ISRAEL Taiwan Japan UK Lebanon

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MIT Forum Advisory BoardAt Your Service

• Prof. Nissim Aranya
• Elizur Bar-Yossef
• Harel Beit-On
• Dr. Shimon Eckhouse
• Martin Gerstel
• Yossi Hachmey
• Amos Horev
• Dr. Yael Ilan
• Dr. Shlomo Kalish
• Yanki Margalit

• Dr. Ed Mlavsky
• Prof. Yishay Mansour
• Rina Priodor
• Leon Recanati
• Oren Rossen
• Prof. Dan Shechtman
• Ofer Shoshan
• Dr. Boaz Tamir
• Effi Wachtel
• Zvi Yemini, and others

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MIT Forum Portfolio

• Mind CTI, Monica Eisinger
• Verisity, Avishai Silvershatz
• PowerDsine, Igal Rotem
• M-Systems, Dov Moran
• Magic, David Assia
• IXI, Gidi Barak
• Raw Analysis, Neatsun Ziv
• Cydoor, Iri Zohar
• Mirabilis (ICQ), Sefi Vigiser

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MIT Forum Experts case by case basis

• Gidi Barak Founder, IXI Mobile, DSP, Butterfly,
  Envara and more
• Avigdor Willenz Founder, Galileo
• Ken Levy Founder and Chairman, KLA-Tencor
• Ed Mlavsky Tyco, BIRD, Gemini
• Shlomo Kalish Jerusalem Global
• Dan Maydan Founder, Applied Materials
• Dalia Prashker Founder, New Dimension

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The MIT Forum at your service

• Consulting
• Brainstorming
• Network
• Visibility

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FAQ

• Technology platform seeking optimal application /
  market and business model
• When to raise funding and from whom
• Management of Strategic alliance
• Terms for active chairman

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Case Study MIND-CTI The Dilemma Funding and
Strategy

• PanelYair Safrai (VC), Boaz Tamir
  (entrepreneur), Joe Shapira (ECI)
• OutcomeMIND-CTI went public 4 years later
• Monica Eisinger, Founder and CEO, MIND-CTI

The Forum put us on the right
track in terms of developing a realistic business
plan, with proper benchmarks and milestones,
thereby improving decision making at MIND.
The Forum afforded us the opportunity of
developing on-going relationships with experts in
fields related to our business. The
Forum gave us insight into the intricacies of
seeking venture capital, and allowed us to avoid
the pitfalls of hindsight by learning on the
job in the process of negotiations.
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Case Study OmniVeeThe Dilemma Market Traction

• PanelYoav Avtalion (NICE), Shlomo Kalish (VC),
  Steve Kohn (consultant)
• OutcomeOmniVee was Acquired by DVTel in July
  2005, 1 year post consulting
• Ben Kidron, Founder and CEO, OmniVee

The process was short and focused. We ended up
having our downside very clear put, and with a
few key suggestions for the best course of
action... Six months later, I can state that
some of our main strong points today are clear
results of the things we heard from the MIT
Forum. The full effect emerges with time.
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Case Study LifeBondThe Dilemma Funding

• Panel (tentative)
• Dr. Shimon Eckhouse (Syneron), Martin Gerstel
  (ALZA, Itamar Medical, Compugen), Dr. Hadar Ron
  (IHCV)
• OutcomeDuring the process LifeBond got an
  investment from two financial bodies. One of the
  investors is a member of the MIT Forum board.

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Consulting with the MIT Forum

• The Process
• 1. Application
• Executive summary, CVs, major challenges
• 2. MIT Forum Committee
• Can we help this company / team?
• Suggested panel for brainstorming meeting
• 3. Determining the Brainstorming wish list Team
  
• according to company requirements
• 4. Brainstorming Meeting

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The MIT Enterprise ForumThe Entrepreneurs
Toolbox
Dr. Jack Goldman (Xerox PARC) Eli Hurvitz
(TEVA) Efi Arazi (Scitex, EFI, iMedia) Eli
Harari (SanDisk) Ken Levy (KLA-Tencor) Dov
Moran (M-Systems) Zohar Zisapel (RAD) Avigdor
Willenz (Galileo) Felix Zandman (Vishay) Dr.
Shimon Eckhouse (ESC, Syneron) Orni Petrushka
(Schorpio, Chromatis) Dan Maydan (Applied
Materials) Zvi Yemini (ZAG) Eduardo Shoval
(Accord, Optibase) Dr. Yossi Vardi (ICQ)
Yanki Margalit (Aladdin) Yoel Gat (Gilat)
Barry Shaked (Retalix) Prof. Ed Roberts (MIT-
Sloan) Prof. Lester Thurow (MIT-Sloan) Micha
Astrachan (economist) Dr. Ed Mlavsky (Tyco,
BIRDF, Gemini) Shai Agasi (SAP) Moshe
Lichtman (MS)
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The MIT Enterprise Forum
MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel National
Sponsors

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• In cooperation with
• Tel Aviv University
• Faculty of Management The Leon Recanati
• Graduate School of Business Administration
• The Miriam and Georg Faktor
• Entrepreneurial Center

Event sponsors In kind sponsors Kesselman and
Kesselman (PWC) Legal Advisor Adv. Jody Stein,
Pearl Cohen Zedeq Latzer

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The MIT Enterprise Forum

• Ingredients for a successful start up
• Yossi Cohen, DSP-IP
• Seth Sternberg, MEEBO
• Ariel Yarnitsky, SpeedBit
• Ilan Oren, iMesh (ret.)

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The Panel Entrepreneurial Opportunities

• The Team
• balance
• founders agreement?
• Business Models
• Current and future Business Models
• has YouTube Cracked the Video Business Model
  Puzzle?
• BUZZ
• Meta vs. UTube, FaceBook vs. MySpace
• Funding
• when
• how much
• from whom
• exit strategy
• The Future it aint what it used to be (YB)