Walking into the Crown Plaza in the Tel Aviv Azrielli mall on Tuesday, I was hot, tired and overwhelmed by the crowd that had come out to get a chance to speak with Mark Fidelman from Forbes.   My friend Chaim Meir Tessler had facebooked me in the morning and invited me- he was sitting at the bar when I arrived, trying to organize the masses.  He seemed surprised that so many people had showed up, but I wasn’t.  While there are a lot of startup events in Tel Aviv, and you often get the chance to meet amazing people, it is very rare to get the chance to be interviewed by someone from a top tier publication like Forbes.

I ordered an iced coffee (at 8pm… that’s how tired I was) and had a seat with fellow Pulver Founders club members- Victor Rosenman from Feedviser and Karen Levi from Weesh.   I also heard that Sagee Ben- Zedeff from Serendip and Kobi Stok from Jamstar were there but they must have left before I arrived.