by Brian Solis
I made time to stop by the IsraelWebTour Showcase hosted by The California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) on 2/6. I attended, not because I had to, but because I needed to.
After spending the last several weeks helping Shuly Ghalili and Deb Schultz promote the event, there was simply no way I could miss it. I got to know each company extremely well and in the process, I became a fan, and user, of many of the solutions that were presented yesterday.
The following 15 startups were the focal point of yesterday’s event:
5min
PLYmedia
AllofMe
NuConomy
ClickTale
blogTV.com
Sportingo
PicScout
Qoof
8hands
Velingo
Erayo
Semingo
PageOnce
Journeys
Nir Ofir of BlogTV
Guy Goldstein of PageOnce
Richard Kligman of Qoof
Ben Enosh of Ply
Shuly Ghalili of the CICC
Gil Ben-Artzy of Yahoo reminded us to stop “googling people” and start “Yahoo’ing them”
We were also treated to a special lunchtime fireside chat with Cathy Brooks of Seesmic and Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek (also author of the upcoming book, Once Your Lucky, Twice Your Good.)
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