Standing on the shoulders of giants

Welcome to our newly minted blog run by Or (26) and I, Jonathan (28) residing in Israel. We have created it to document our journey of building a company starting from the ground floor. We have a very interesting story about how we ended up together, but we’ll save it for a future post. Instead, we’ll tell you a bit on the first steps we took.

One of the first things we decided to do was to meet up with successful entrepreneurs within our network. Some of the people we met up with so far include Roi Tiger from Onavo, Omer Perchik from Any.Do, Aviv Revach from Commerce Sciences, Gilad Avidan & Shlomi Atar from Smore and Joel Gascoigne from Buffer.  We want to take the opportunity here to thank all of them for their time and kindness of welcoming us to their companies and talking to us about their experiences. You guys rock.

It was amazing to see how each company is so very different than the other. Not only in obvious issues such as the industry they operate in or the product they’re building but rather in the culture DNA. The range was really phenomenal – some companies feel more “calm” while other are hustling and bustling. Some had traditional offices in a large office complex while others were tucked away in a fancy residential towers, the home of one of the founders. Some had a very “nerdy / techy” feel while others felt more business like. In short, a range of different cultures, most likely influenced by the founders.

When we presented some of the ideas we are considering, the angles of approach these different founders suggested were as mixed as their startups. Each giving us his own unique spin based on their own experience or skill set. Even though we felt confident in our mental image of the idea, they presented issues we haven’t fully considered.

Seeing this mix of successful startups up close in such a small country like Israel is delightful. We admire the people and the path they have already walked. In the future, we’ll post insights from meetings we’ll have.

We’ll also tell you about ideas we are toying with; our quest for a (good!) company name; our meeting story and much, much more. Stay tuned!