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1. START-UP NATION: THE
STORY OF ISRAEL'S
ECONOMIC MIRACLE
And what for you?

2.  Shai Agassi. Better Place. 2007 meeting.
 Davos 2005: make this world a better
place before 2030.
 Hybrid was dead
 A new transportation business model:
users own car, provider owns batteries.
 An experiment nation: Israel
 A safe tech: from bomber fighters to
batteries replacement.
A FAIRY TALE?

3.  Warren Buffett bought ISCAR
Metalworking, an Israel company, for 4,5
billions USD right before Lebanon-Israel
war in 2006
 Steve Ballmer said ‘Microsoft is an Israel
company’
 Eric Schmidht – American is the best place
for companies. Israel is the second one.
WHAT A HOLY LAND!

5. GEOGRAPHIC
 Border shared with: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt,
 Saudi Arabia
 Palestine: West Bank and Gaza Strip
http://www.hayovel.com/learn/maps-of-israel
Area
- Total 20,770 / 22,072 (153rd) km
2
8,019 / 8,522 sq mi
- Water (%) 2.12 (440 km
2
/ 170 mi
2
)

6. GENERAL INFORMATION
(SEE MORE? HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/DEMOGRAPHICS_OF_ISRAEL)
Capital
and largest city
Jerusalem (disputed)
31°47′N 35°13′E
Official languages •Hebrew
•Arabic
Ethnic groups(2013) •75.3% Jewish
•20.7% Arab
Government Unitary parliamentary
republic
- President Shimon Peres
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Legislature Knesset
Independence from Mandatory Palestine
- Declared 14 May 1948
- Recognition 1 May 1949

7. A QUIZ
 How many people are there in Israel?
 How many Israel people are there outside the country?

8. LIFE IN ISRAEL
Population
- 2014 estimate 8,146,300
[1]
(96th)
- 2008 census 7,412,200
[2]
(99th)
- Density 387.63/km
2
(34th)
1,004.00/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2014 estimate
- Total $286.840 billion
[3]
- Per capita $35,658
[3]
GDP (nominal) 2014 estimate
- Total $305. 707 billion
[3]
- Per capita $38,004
[3]
Gini (2008) 39.2
[4]
medium · 66th
HDI (2013) 0.900
[5]
very high · 16th
Currency
Israeli new shekel (₪)
(ILS)
1$ ~3,5 shekel

12. ONCE UPON A TIME, IN ISRAEL
 1940s. Build universities first , then build a country.
 1940s and 1950s. Israel’s first (Weizmann) and fourth (Katzir) presidents were scientists.
 1960s. the sudden 1967 French weapons embargo: founding of Intelligence Signal
Corp (Unit 8200). In 1968 the establishment of the Office of the Chief Scientist
(OCS) to help fix market failures in commercializing R&D.
 1970s. 1972 - Israel’s first NASDAQ IPO (1972; by medical imaging pioneer, Elscint),
1974 - Intel’s first international R&D center. In 1977 BIRD foundation was created
to fund technology-based product development between Israeli and US
companies.
 1980s. By the early 1980s there were numerous top-tier VC investments, and by
1984 the NASDAQ value of the first wave of a dozen Israeli tech ventures was
$780 million.
 In 1984 Law for the Encouragement of R&D passed.
 In 1987 the cancellation of the Lavi fighter-plane megaproject flooded the
market with thousands of engineers who swelled the ranks of startups.

13. FOCUS ON HUMAN
 Kibbutz
 Long-term Military service
 Greenhorn policy
 Yozma program

15. WHY STARTUP NATION?
 Make a safe place for Israelis to develop.
 Build a country from nowhere
 “The greatest contribution of Israelis in history is their
unsatisfaction. It’s bad for politics, good for science.”– Shimon
Peres
 The ability to turn adversity into recyclable creativity energy

16. FUTURE ISRAEL
 From startup to scale-up
 ‘Hi-tech farmer’
 Potential possibilities for cooperating with the rising Asian
economy.

17. BETTERPLACE REVISITED
 Five years of bombastic hype. $850 million of funding burned.
Networks planned in at least seven countries. Bankrupt in 2013
 “In Israel, it’s one obstacle after another,” Harel said. “This is
an extremely challenging market to deal with. The Transport
Ministry has put a lot of barriers to entry.”
 Better Place “tried to conquer the whole world,” Abramowitz
said. “We’re not doing it that way. We’ll serve the Israeli
market and grow it organically.”

18. George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950

19. WHAT FOR YOU?
 Made in Israel – Technology
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsXCl5tJwnM
 Be independent
 Chutzpah spirit:
 behaviour, or a person’s attitude, that is rude or shocking but so
confident that people may feel forced to admire it
 Be a bitzu’ist
 "getting things done."
 Rosh gadol
 can-do and responsible attitude with scant respect for the limitations of
formal authority

20. REFERENCES
 http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Nation-Israels-Economic-Miracle/dp/0446541478
 http://blog.up.co/2013/09/12/13-characteristics-of-a-great-start-up-culture/
 http://www.slideshare.net/DanIsenberg/start-up-notions-the-real-roots-of-israels-
entrepreneurship-miracle-feb-2-2011-economist
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company
 http://www.investinisrael.gov.il/NR/exeres/94C96807-3F40-4981-AA0D-
F9CEFF74F4D2.htm
 http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/israel-population/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
 http://www.dunghangviet.vn/hv/khoi-nghiep/2013/07/39quoc-gia-khoi-nghiep39-
giai-ma-hien-tuong-israel.html