As Nir Elperin says, Israel claims to be the highest density of start-up companies outside Silicon Valley, and starting with that idea, he talks about Israel’s entrepreneurial and high-tech history. He defends the idea that serial entrepreneurs have a higher rate of success, but it is also important to finance people with just fresh ideas. In Elperin’s opinion, Governments can really make a difference to promote the privet sector in high-tech.

Nir Elperin is Vice President of Arba Finance Company in Israel. He was for 4 years a Senior Financial and Information System Analyst for Ilanot-Batucha Investment House and an Economist and Programmer for Economic Models Ltd., both leading companies in Israel. He is twice a magna cum laude graduate of Tel Aviv University with an M.B.A. in Finance. He served for four years in the Military Intelligence Unit of the Israeli Defense Forces and he is also a graduate of the PMD program at the Harvard Business School.