Emi Gal

One of the best ways to get work done cheaply when you’re a startup is get interns on board. Most of the times they’re smart, driven, willing to learn, and can be very affordable. However, you have to be careful as both hiring and getting them up-to-speed can be quite time consuming. I’ve hired a [...]

Is when you pitch to a potential customer and two minutes later he shows you an internal presentation from “6 weeks ago” showcasing a similar product to yours. This means that: a) They see the problem b) It’s a big enough problem that they were thinking to solve it themselves c) If your value proposition [...]

As a lot of you have probably seen, Hulu announced a few new exciting features on their online video platform last week. And I’m extremely exciting about some of them, because it seems the online video world is heading where I expected it to go . Here are some of the things they launched and [...]

Whenever a company starts completely changing (or creating) an industry and massively capitalizes on that, people start talking. Press & media starts following its every step to see if they could get some drama (and traffic, therefore revenue) out of that. Facebook is right in the midst of all this drama with its share-everything privacy [...]

There’s a great passage in the Bible talking about patience. I don’t remember what it says exactly, but the bottom line is that the more patient we are, the wiser we grow. It makes sense, I think. However, I find it very strange that even though I know that being patient will ultimately make me wiser, [...]

This year was one of the busiest but at the same time rewarding years of my life. I’ve achieved a lot but even more important, I’ve learned a lot. And in good 2009 spirit, I twitted about the top 3 things I learned, of course. Without further ado: Firstly: most important thing I’ve learned this [...]

When you fully comprehend that there is more to life than just here and now, and you realize that life is just preparation for eternity, you will begin to live differently. You will start living in light of eternity, and that will color how you handle every relationship, task, and circumstance. Suddenly many activities, goals [...]

is that it brings you back to the drawing board. It makes you prioritize and figure out what actually matters. That’s something we humans don’t do when all is well, for some irrational reason. It’s probably hard to see when you have bills piling up, clients that keep pushing their payments and everybody seems to [...]