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Yaniv Yaakubovich — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:07:33 +0000

Financial crisis. Now let’s find a job
Internships – find one and utilize it
How I stopped using Ad Block and started to love online advertising
Welcome to Kontera
How to succeed as a remote product manager
Israel – America – similar, differen

Tour Eiffel, originally uploaded by SamwiseGamgee69.

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I got my H-1 visa

Yaniv Yaakubovich — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:23:58 +0000

A year after graduationI finally got my H-1 visa which allows me to work.

Back in January I had the honor to join Kontera, the leader of in-text advertising and I am currently a Senior Manger, Product Solutions.

It’s been a long process to find a job and I already have a few posts in process about it. I’d like to take this opportunity to all the people who supported me during this process.

There are still many MBAs like me – who graduated with, or just this week – who are working hard to find the right place. Good luck to all of you, let me know if I can help.

baloons, originally uploaded by mrkubi.

Tagged: Goizueta, graduation, h-1, MBA, visa

Israel: A Leader in Business Innovation

Yaniv Yaakubovich — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:46:02 +0000

Dan Senor and Saul Singer recently published a very interesting book about Israel economy and culture: Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

The book describes the miracle of our nation – producing more start-up companies than large economies like Japan, China, India, Korea and UK. It explains how Israel attracted over twice as much VC money then the US and over thirty over Europe.

Here is a short interview with Dan Senor on CNBC

Tagged: CNBC, Dan Senor, inovation, Israel, Saul Singer, start-up

eBooks for the Holidays

Yaniv Yaakubovich — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:33:32 +0000

Looking for something to read during the Holidays?

Here are three options from very interesting writers:

1. Seth Godin organized some big thinkers to a new ebook called What Matters Now (PDF). It’s a fun reading . Ideas such as Sleep, Enough, Productivity, Most and more already made me re-think about some of the stuff I am doing. Read more about the book in Seth’s post.

Daisy blue 1, originally uploaded by Reini68.

2. J.C Hutchins curated In The Nick of Time (pdf) which include free chapters from the recent work of fiction and non-fiction writers like Robert J. Sawyer, Chris Brogan and Hutchins himself. It’s a nice way to learn about the wok of various people, some of them I was not familiar with. Read Chris’s description of the project here.

3. Valeria Maltoni who writes the blog Conversation Agent grouped together some 10 marketing experts in the Marketing in 2010(PDF) ebook.

Enjoy!

The power of combined Netflix Prizes

Yaniv Yaakubovich — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:02:04 +0000

Havas Media Lab’s Director Umair Haque posted a very interesting post about the job market and the model of Netflix Prize. On his HBR post Umair calls for a new Manhattan Project that will refresh the economy.

This new project will include the launch a series of Netflix Prize-like projects in various industries – health care, transportation, energy, media, education, auto, banking. The challenge is to re-imagine these industries and transform them.

Think of groups of engineers, university professors, professionals and more, all competing and cooperating to solve the most burning issues. These groups together will create an extensive crowdsourcing effort. One that will change our world and improve it.

Think!, originally uploaded by florriebassingbourn.

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Tagged: awesomeness, crowdsourcing, Ideas, innovation, Netflix, Netflix Prize, Umair Haque

How Schools Could Use Social Media (12/100)

Yaniv Yaakubovich — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:19:22 +0000

Schools, like companies, have great opportunities in social media. They can use it to engage their students and prospective students, to build networks of their faculty and alumni, to enhance the class experience by broadcasting some of them online and using twitter to get reactions to the class content and many other options.

I posted my take about the opportunities that Goizueta Business School has in social media and talked about this again here.

My friend Kate Brodock, the founder of Other Side Group, covers social media and it’s applications in higher education in her company’s blog in depth.

108 High Resolution Dark Denim Social Media Icons, originally uploaded by webtreatsetc.

Tagged: business school, opportunities, School, socail media

I like Malcolm Gladwell

Yaniv Yaakubovich — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:57:35 +0000

I like Gladwell because he writes about subjects i find interesting and he is a talented story teller. By now, I enjoyed reading Blink and Outliers and some of the articles published in What The Dog Saw (Kottke: Links to What the Dog Saw).

A popular author (Mitch Joel calls him a rock star), his work covers subjects like the phenomena of word of mouth (The Tipping Point), intuition (Blink), success (Outliers), quarterbacks and dog whispers (What the dog saw) .

I believe that the debate about his work and its accuracy makes is valuable. It highlights the importance of critical thinking and some of the limits that journalism has versus pure science work. (Watts, Pinsker, Pinsker 2, Fake Gladwell on Christmas).

Earlier today, I enjoyed an interesting c-span interview with Gladwell. It includes a discussion about his critics, his work, the books he read, Canadian history and more. I highly recommend it.

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Tagged: blink, Books, c-span, Canada, critic, Duncan Watts, family, kottke, Malcolm Gladwell, mitch joel, Pinsker, Q and A, YouTube