Silicon Roundabout, Wadi, Plateau, Docks, Health – just some of the growing number of start-up hubs popping up around the globe. As an early member of the team at Wix.com, headquartered in Tel-Aviv, I'm often asked how a small country like Israel can have such a world-dominating start-up culture.

Payments solutions business Pay Corporation, part of Boxhill Technologies PLC, has signed an agreement with CRM software business Bright Office, further extending its reach outside of the gaming and lottery sectors.

On Friday 1st November, the Crowdfunding: Deep Impact Conference will be offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear from the founders of various crowdfunding platforms, as well as meet with likeminded business owners and investors. 

The race to win superiority in the mobile GPS market is becoming increasingly more intense, with Google and Apple seemingly fighting tooth and nail to outdo each other's latest advance.

Israel's reputation as a 'startup nation' has attracted plenty of attention and big business from foreign investors. This has been particularly beneficial for Israeli internet companies, with American firms harnessing their untapped potential by injecting venture capital and acquiring entrepreneurial young enterprises at a startling rate.

I’m a big fan of Israel, having spent a period on a Kibbutz in the North of the Country in the eighties, followed by Christmas in Eilat in 1999. I also work full-time in the Arab world, so I feel very sympathetic towards the Middle East generally, which was why I chose to spend Christmas 2012 in the Holy Land.

Talking with Entrepreneurship students about strategy is like talking to millennials about pension plans. Thanks, but no thanks. It doesn’t help that textbooks on strategy are on the whole quite dull affairs (few, if any, people on their death bed request a copy of Robert E. Grant´s Contemporary Strategy Analysis).