Inca (2002-2009), our beloved dog, has passed away today at the age of 6.5 (and in dog years - 45).

A little bit about her: We found Inca abandoned in the streets of my home town, Beer-Sheva, when she was only at the age of 2 month. We fell in love with her immediately and decided to adopt her.

Since then she has been with us. Inca took part in all the major occasions me and my wife had - My marriage proposal, Our weeding, Birth of our sun, All of my wife's 7 years of Medical studies (It almost seemed like Inca waited for her to finish her studies and become a doctor before she left us), the adoption of our cat "Lola", (we found the cat at the age of only 3 days after her mother abandoned her, and Inca raised her), and on many many more. 

Inca sickness started due to a pancreas fever that caused a liver failure, and many more complications, in the end she died peacefully in her sleep due to a stroke. She fought bravely for survival for the last 2 weeks, but I guess it was her time to leave.

Inca was a big part of our lives, she touched us so deep with her amazing soul and spirit. To us she was like a daughter, and loosing her feels like loosing a family member. We will miss all the love and joy she gave us.

That's the most I can share at the moment without weeping... so ill just finish with: Goodbye Inca, we know you are still with us, and you will be with us forever. We hope your resting now and your smiling again.

We Love you! (Damn, I'm weeping).

I just watched interview with Yossi Vardi on Web2Expo in Europe. Interesting and funny as usual.

Yossi Vardi has a long success investments record that made a lot of entrepreneurs request his business and finance assistance. He is an angel, that as far as i know, as of today he mainly invest small amounts of money in early stage Israeli startups.

I heard his investments criterion "Mantra" a couple of times before, and I'm always happy to hear it again. He always says that he invest in the people and not the product, feeling that if the investment will not succeed at least he gave a "scholarship" to yet another entrepreneur. This sounds too naive and imaginary to be true, but I have seen it happen. If Vardi thinks the people in front of him are "good" people he will invest in them.

So I just want to say to Yossi, I'm glad that there are still people out there that are not so cold and calculated, and that good people deserve the chance to follow out their dreams, but what does it say about me if you didn't want to invest in me... :)

Keep it up, you give hope to many young dreamers.

Yossi Vardi on Business Week, and in TC50

Not sure I'm a blogger yet, but starting today i do have a blog. I wonder if this is the only criteria to become a blogger?

Who am I?
I'm Dan, 31 years old, Lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Husband to Ramit, and a father to Eyal, Inca (AKA the Dog) and Lola (AKA the Cat).

I have a BA in Economics and Behavioral Science and a MA in Cognitive Psychology (Pending the completion of the thesis (5 years ago...)).

I think of myself as a creative thinker and a problem solver, and between these two i'm an entrepreneur and a user experience expert.

The aim of this blog is to share with you my subjective views and reviews about technology, user experience, psychology, and stuff...

You can contact me at dan.rimon@gmail.com