My Dilemma

Part of my vision in business is: "doing business differently" and it comes from the "coach" part in me. it’s a long story to define what's "differently" but I don't feel that I want to explore it now but I do want to lighten part of it …………and my personal dilemma……..
The part which I want to explore now is the "Human Part" or How can a venture capital destroy (or build) the vision of entrepreneurs (people who built new companies) . we try to see the people behind the idea and not only D' idea. We try to give everybody a fair chance to present his/her idea and we do take them seriously. once a week we sit on our deal flow and review the meeting we've done and the decisions of " GO no GO" and apparently we say no to most of them (we can only invest in 8-10 companies during the next 2-3 years and we see around 5-10 New companies a WEEK!!!)) . it turn out that I am saying NO to more the 90% of the people I meet, those who built their vision, have passion to successes, those who left their job in order to built new companies, leave secured places or just follow their dream…………and for those talented ones we say no!, No, its not a good idea, NO, it doesn't suit our criteria. No……….no……………no…………

and these people are exactly the people which I work as their coach and encourage them to DREAM, think FAR, think BIG , think PASSION………………………
for all those whom we met and said no, don't get it personaly, don't let it get you off your track and vision - try to figure out what went worng,why you didn't succeed but if you belive in your idea keep on going..........

can you see my dilemma?

have you ever force yourself to laugh?

Being a coach is being part of a community, something which I usually avoid doing – being part of a community!! Me! why? I wonder it’s a weak part of me……maybe I will practice with my coach about it??
I finished the fundamental course of CTI Israel few months ago but I didn't participate in the community events of CTI, maybe because our group from the course meet every two months……….
Two days ago I decided to join the community evening………I came after my weekly massage ( I do it every week for the last year and it changed my life), and was very skeptical like we many times do, aren't we?
I must tell you it was joy……..two people introduced them self to the community – one guy Dori Ben Hanoch (a CTI coach and a lecturer) who returned to Israel after 20 years abroad talked about his vision which was magic, and a wonderful woman, Philar, who was sometime so embarrassed( I hope I spelled her name right) told a bit of her story …….she was fun and interesting to listen to and than the highlight of the evening which was "laugh yoga" guided by Anna Ledrman (thank you Anna). I must say at the beginning it was difficult to force yourself to laugh but it took few minutes and all of us (when we got rid our cynical sight) were laughing like drunk/stone people.
I took some short video but couldn't upload them to the blog(I believe some will say thanks god)– those who would like them can send me mail and I promise to send it.

i love coaching and hate saying goodbye

I never mentioned the work I am doing in our Venture Capital Fund – Jerusalem Capital, I will do it some day in the future.
I want to talk about me as a coach or batter say what is the most difficult thing in coaching for me..…saying Good bye.
Since coaching is limited by means of number of meetings (usually 12-15 meetings) I found myself saying good bye to three of my trainees in the last two weeks.
I started w/them few months ago and we went through wonderful journey, each one was different, two of them were by phone only and one was face to face. We explored different ways, we touched plenty of good things, we touched few difficult places but with those three we got some interesting insight about their life and discover their lighthouse or vision. It wasn't the same with every one of them but it was magic with each one of them. I know why I love coaching………I love the intimately of being with people with almost no barriers, I love what I learn about myself during the work we do but I hate saying good bye – I might need a coach for me 
I don't know if they read my blog , but here is the time and place to tell you, K. K. and B. ,thank you for being so open with yourself and thank you for giving me the opportunity to escort you for a short time in your journey.
I took two weeks off from new clients but I feel I am ready for my next one………….

Pic from Tals' 45 Party

does life ends on 45?..........NO

does life ENDS at 45? Apparently no as you can see.........
when we were at the 20ties we thought that 30ties are so OLD that they are about to die soon.....than came 40ties and now we are 45ers and still kicking.............
Tal,my dearest and generous friend invited us all to his 45 birthday. last Thursday he closed a club , only for us , and we found our self drinking and dancing all night long.the party was great the people were beautiful and its so funny to walk in a club when you know most of the people there...........not much to tell more......pictures will describe...........


more pic will come soon