Poor Valley Girl!

In a busy day for tech news-- with CNET getting bought, Carl Ichan is causing more troubles for Yahoo, and OF COURSE my book coming out officially-- I hope someone will check out my latest Valley Girl column on BusinessWeek about Israel's startup scene. As you know, if you read this blog, I spent a week in Israel in April and was a frustrating and enlightening experience. Sounds contradictory? Than it was an Israeli experience.

This was an incredibly hard column to write, because Israel is such a complex and contradictory place. At the heart of the column are a few questions for the tiny but very entrepreneurial country, which I think is at a bit of a crossroads: Will Israel always be Silicon Valley's farm team or emerge as a tech hub independent of the Valley? Should it aspire to that? Can Israeli entrepreneurs make great Web entrepreneurs?

Take a look! Give my column some love!