torsdag den 15. marts 2012

How can Israel get the next Mark Zuckerberg to make Aliya?


Aliya Incubator engages the following question: How can we motivate the next Mark Zuckerberg to immigrate to Israel and start up a company that will create high value jobs for thousands of Israelis? 

The unrealized potential

Israel has been very successfull in attracting the ideological and religious anglos in the diaspora, but has an unrealized potential in attracting a whole  "overlooked" group of entrepreneurial superstars, who's less ideological motivated and more hesitant due to financial concerns. By creating Aliya Incubator, we’re igniting a catalyst for a new layer of entrepreneurial Anglo immigrants, who could create the next big thing, generate thousands of high value jobs, and even inspire more hesitant potential olims to do the same. Israel needs a mechanism to tap into the amazing potential and an Aliya Incubator can be that spark. Israel is known to be a great Start Up Nation full of talented and creative Israelis with chutzpa. Now it needs to be known as the best place to start up a company as a new immigrant from the anglo world too. It already is, but the perfect match between entrepreneurial talent and optimal environment also needs mechanisms to make it happen. Aliya Incubator is one such mechanism.

While there has been a steady increase of highly educated Anglo  immigration to Israel in the last 10 years, very few new companies has emerged from these immigrants initiative. So while Israel is experiencing an explosion of innovation, investment, and entrepreneurship and emerging as a world economic powerhouse widely recognized as a great business climate for risk taking, the Anglo immigrants have largely been following along, rather than starting up companies in Israel themselves. The recent record high Anglo immigration wave has not realized its full potential in gravitating into huge entrepreneurial activities.
And now Israel needs new fresh immigrants more than ever, cause one of the ingredients in maintaining its entrepreneurial lead status, is a constant flow of motivated entrepreneurial talents to start up companies and create high value jobs. After the 1990’s huge immigration wave from Russia, and despite the marked increase in anglo-American immigrants, Israel has gone from being a country of immigrants, each with their own culture and background, to a country that’s becoming more and more Israeli and indigenous, with over 72% born in Israel.[1] 

So what’s the main barrier?

The next Mark Zuckerbergs are simply concerned about their financial opportunities and frustrated by bureaucracy, so they hesitate to do aliya and starts up abroad.

Let us elaborate: Anglos tend to immigrate to Israel more for religious, ideological and political purposes, and not financial ones[2]( Chaim Waxman).


A large majority of American immigrants are Orthodox (+70%). Almost 40% are married, 22% are single adults and the remainders are youngsters.[3]
This ensures Israel a high influx of high quality, highly ideologically motivated, and already financial secured immigrants, with a solid Jewish Identity.
So why have they not made as great impact on the start up scene as they could? There is a growing trend for these type of immigrants to keep the jobs they had in America by telecommuting, or  commuting. The latter is called “Boeing Aliya”, and is a term that has come to designate economically comfortable couples with children who, for financial reasons, make partial aliya. Typically, the wife and children move to Israel as olim, while the husband commutes to his job in North America.
“Many individuals have outsourced their old jobs here to Israel – staying up late and connecting to their old offices, doing the same work, from here,” ( NBN co-founder Rabbi Joshua Fass).
At the same time, many have utilized their language skills and joined the High-Tech and NGO labour force as Technical writers, call center sales agents/customer supports, fundraisers, etc.
So while Israel has succeeded in attracting the religious and idealogical motivated anglos, we could do more to tap into the huge potential of entrepreneurial supertalented youngsters from either less ideological homes or from ideological homes, but more financially concerned. These next company founders may have received a spark of inspiration to do Aliya while on a Birthright trip, and dreams of making aliya, but are concerned about their financial future, frustrated by logistical, bureaucratic and financial obstacles and feel that the risk of starting up a business in Israel is too high. They need help in actualizing their dreams. They are the potential cream of the crop of new company founders and inventors of the next Facebook, Twitter or Google. They need “Homeground advantage”, and we need to provide them a sense of “homeground advantage” in their old historic homeland. They need a last push. And Israel needs them. Motivated entrepreneurial superstars and Israel sounds like a natural fit – and it is! However, a mechanism is needed in order to lower the barrier for the hesitant potential immigrant.

At the same time, while Venture Capital is flowing into Israel, it has largely been focused on mature staged projects, and there seem to be a gap in the market for 
the early-stage venture capital sums of $0.2M-2M range (The Economist)[4]So while Israel attracts far more venture capital per person than any other country—$170 in 2010 to America’s $75[5], there does not seem to be enough early-stage money to go around. A huge investment opportunity with high ROI potential is waiting to be utilized.
So the central question remains:
How to support, organize, motivate and enable young anglo Jews to move to Israel and make a transformative impact on Israeli Society, by building a new layer of entrepreneurial immigrants who can create the next big thing and generate high value jobs?

Solution

Aliya Incubator is a Technology business accelerator focusing on young innovative technology anglo immigrant start ups at the very early stages in the area of “Internet Leverage”.

Aliyah Incubator (AI) vision is to motivate hesitant supertalents at pre-aliya phase to make aliya and help build a new layer of entrepreneurial anglo immigrants who can create the next big thing, and jobs for thousands.
Aliyah Incubator’s mission is to revitalize Aliyah by tapping into the amazing potential of Pre-Aliyah talent, recruit start-up entrepreneurial super talents and nurture seed-stage ideas from vision to proof-of-concept product stage.
Aliyah Incubator will achieve its mission and vision by creating a launching pad for Entrepreneurial and passionated New Immigrants to catalyze winning Internet technologies of the future to market success - Transforming Aliyah into Enterprise
Aliyah Incubator (AI) is designed to promote and facilitate - indeed to ignite the integration of the untapped potential of pre-aliya anglo entrepreneurs and Israel’s renowned knowledge economy
Based on the proven Israeli incubator model, Aliya Incubator offers a dynamic process of business development for a highly select and selected segment of energetic and committed potential Immigrant Entrepreneurial talents, making it a new and unique evolution of the Israeli incubator model - a targeted hybrid. It’s a turnkey customized program, an entire ecosystem of support services necessary to start up a new life and to start up a new company in Israel, including managed professional services, such as the highest level of business support and strategic guidance and taking care of administrative classic bureaucratic headaches and overhead costs, offering the optimal warm and protective safe environment needed to focus 100% on shaping the ideas and propel technologies to success.

Aliya Incubator provides:

Early stage investment: The Aliya Incubator fills the financial gap between very early stage projects and Venture Capital maturity, by providing the initial investment and business guidance needed to translate innovative ideas into living, breathing commercially-viable ventures.
Investors' exposure: exposing the entrepreneur to relevant potential investors
Infrastructure: Offices rent-free and equipment.
Administrative: Legal, Banking, Accounting and help dealing with the Israeli public bureaucracy
Marketing: Mentoring by Entrepreneurs - by Olim for Olim focusing on marketing and strategic positioning, Product Definition, as well as assistance with access to channels and markets.
Technology experts and networking: Access to Universities and their Technology Transfer Offices, as well as industry experts.
“The Israeli Factor”: The Israeli entrepreneurial spirit of creativity and innovation has led many companies to clear differentiation and major advantages over the competition. By starting up a company in and breathing the air of Israeli creativity, will inspire to Innovation, which is a key factor for market penetration, long product life cycle and commercial success.

Investment opportunity

Aliya Incubator is also a huge opportunity to support Israel, help reduce assimilation rates, and farm next generation technology crops in Silicon Wadi.
We build kick off global-Israeli companies consisting of Anglo immigrants and we invite you to join us!
You enjoy the benefits of partnering with handpicked leading entrepreneurial immigtant supertalents,

Aliya Incubator offers investors:
Managed Risk by allowing for diversification over several handpicked start ups in an organized and supported environment, allowing for pooling of talent and resources, which enable higher rates of success than stand-alone counterparts. All incubator participants are carefully screened and handpicked by industry experts.

Leveraged ROI. In return, depending on the size of the investment and risk, the investor can expect to take up anything from a small minority equity stake in several companies to a majority holding in one or a multiple of

Unique opportunity: The Sub £2M space is ignored by most VC companies so offers real and unique possibilities to invest in growing promising companies with good management.

Support Israel and Promote aliya: While securing an equity share in the next Facebook, Checkpoint or Google you will help root Jews to Israel and fulfill their dreams, building a new layer of anglo immigrant entrepreneurs who in turn will generate high value jobs in Israel.

Investing in Aliya Incubator is not only a great investment, its modern day Zionism.





[1] Hirsh Goodman as qouted in The Economist: It could be just like Switzerland – The ecomomist Feb 22nd 2012


[2] Waxman, Chaim. American Aliyah, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. pg. 131-135
[3] Source: Barry Spielman, head of the Aliyah Delegation and director of communications for the Jewish Agency as quoted in “More N. Americans immigrate to Israel” 8/10/2011 http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=15470

[4] What next for the start-up nation? The Economist Jan 21st 2012 


[5] The Economist

onsdag den 29. februar 2012

Aliyah Incubator – farming next generation technology crops in Silicon Wadi and promoting Aliya



The Entrepreneurial Oleh Talent
There exists today a huge mass of  highly educated olim with entrepreneurial talent, who dream of making aliya. However they hesitate to do so, because they are concerned about their financial future and feel that the risk of starting up a business in Israel is too high. They are the potential cream of the crop of new company founders and inventors of the next Facebook, Twitter or Google. 




Israel - Silicon Wadi
Israel has the highest number of startups per capita of any nation in the world, enjoys massive venture capital investment, is one of the world's entrepreneurship hubs, and widely recognized as a great business climate for risk taking and VC investment.
As one of the ingredients in maintaining this succes, Israel needs a constant flow of motivated entrepreneurial talents to start up companies and create high value jobs.


How To Make The Natural Fit Happen
It sounds like a natural fit – and it is! However a mechanism is needed in order to lower the barrier for the hesitant potential oleh.

Aliyah Incubator (AI) is a launching pad for Entrepreneurial Immigrants to help successfully create the next big thing. Based on the proven Israeli incubator model, Aliya Incubator offers a launching pad for a highly select and selected segment of energetic and committed potential Immigrant Entrepreneurial talents to help successfully create the next big thing. Aliyah Incubator is a turnkey customized launchpad, an entire ecosystem of support services necessary to start up a new life and to start up a new company in Israel - transforming Aliyah into Enterprise.  


The Aliya Incubator fills the financial and commercial experience gap between seed stage and private-sector venture market  maturity.


The Investment Opportunity

Aliya Incubator is also a huge opportunity to support Israel, help reduce assimilation rates, and farm the next generation technology crops in Silicon Wadi. It is not only a great investment - Its modern day Zionism.










The AI Formular
Aliya Incubator is a win-win-win program: While helping root Jews to their roots and fulfill their dreams, their entrepreneurial talents will help create high value jobs in Israel and earn a Return On Investment to the incubator`s investors.

The Aliya Incubator formula can be summed up as:

Talent+Optimal growth environment+Capital+”The Israeli factor”= ROI + High Value Job Creation in Israel.
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søndag den 26. februar 2012

Transforming Aliyah to Enterprise



Imagine that you have the next big idea.
Imagine that you could be fully funded for the next 2 years to make your dream come true.
Imagine that you could live in Israel.
If you can imagine, this could be for you.



Aliyah Incubator (AI) is a launching pad for Entrepreneurial Immigrants to help successfully create the next big thing.

Every year thousands of idealistic enthusiastic new immigrants from the US, the UK and France are choosing to make the dramatic leap of faith with their lives and are joining their fate with Enterprise Israel.

Thousands more would consider coming if they could feel comfortable regarding their financial opportunities.
Critically, there are those prospects who certainly are not considering leaving Silicon Valley or Boston or Cambridge, who are the cream of the crop of new company founders, inventors of the next Facebook, Twitter or Google. 


Aliyah Incubator will focus solely on this specific sector – the Immigrant Entrepreneur.

Aliyah Incubator seeks to revitalize Aliyah and to substantially increase the number of future Olim from western countries by tapping into the amazing potential of Pre-Aliyah talent and recruit start-up entrepreneurs who, upon selection, are able to relocate to Israel for a minimum of two years and join the next-generation incubator of high-tech projects and companies in Israel.


Aliyah Incubator offers the optimal environment and opportunity for a highly select and selected segment of these energetic and committed potential Immigrant Entrepreneurs. Aliyah Incubator is a turnkey customized launchpad, an entire ecosystem of support services necessary to start up a new life and to start up their new company – in Israel.  It’s a safe and “risk-free” Aliyah option for entrepreneurial talents to realize two dreams: Living in Israel and start-up the dream company. And with more companies listed on NASDAQ than any country outside North America, with more start-up per head of population than any other country Israel is the ideal place to launch a start-up.



The Aliyah Incubator is constructed around the incubator model, which has proven itself as an effective framework for developing innovative technological ideas and leading them towards first round Investment. The framework has been the No.1 “producer” of start-ups in Israel, with a 65% success 
rate raising private first round Investment. As illustrated in the right side figure, the Return of Investment for the Israeli government has been an even greater success than anyone could have have ever imagined, and has caught the eyes of the whole world including companies such as Google and Microsoft,  who themselves have set up their own incubator projects in Israel.    


The vision of the Aliyah Incubator program is to assist Entrepreneur Immigrants successfully create the next big thing - transforming Aliyah into Enterprise.

It´s a win-win program: While helping root Jews to their roots and fulfill their dreams, their entrepreneurial talents will help create high value jobs in Israel and earn a Return On Investment to the incubator`s investors.
You’re enthusiastically invited to join the economic miracle of Israel and join the amazing talented and creative entrepreneurial culture of “Silicon Waddi”. Thousands more would follow you...



Israel is indeed the ideal place to launch your idea!


                    If it is great, we can fund it!  Submit your idea today:  aliyaincubator@gmail.com

 Get YOUR dream idea funded with AI.