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 Having been born in Israel and lived in Tehran, Washington DC, New York, London and the south of France, Ziv feels most at home pretty much anywhere.
Ziv started his career selling advice on a beach in Goa. Charging 5 rupees per customer and spending the day hearing about other people's problems led him to make the natural choice of studying Psychology and Philosophy.
As he was pondering about Nietzsche and Freud, Ziv decided to join the New Media revolution (the year was 1995) and started working for Pixel Multimedia - producing a number of successful interactive CD-ROMs. Realizing that there's more to life than psychoanalysis, he decided to get an MBA at one of Europe's most innovative business schools - Theseus - which was strategically located in the South of France. Suntan ensued.
1996 and Ziv arrives the Big Apple, running a research institute on Wall Street, helping companies that have been around for 100 years understand how Amazon, eBay and Yahoo are about to change the rules of the game.
Having grown tired reading about other entrepreneurs, Ziv founds Startup Station in New York, gets acquired by a public company in the UK and crosses the Atlantic to run the business in London. Then the market crashes and Ziv goes back to selling advice. This time it's not on a beach in Goah but in an office in Notting Hill. The customers are different too - RealNetworks, Microsoft, Google and the BBC sign up as clients and Ziv starts working on his book of short stories, Nanotales. Shortly after, he falls in love with Maya and starts a whole new chapter in his life when he gets married.
In 2007 Ziv joins Bebo, his first daughter Emma is born, followed by Nanotales, which is also the name of Ziv's Bebo profile. Drop by and say hello at http://www.nanotales.bebo.com.
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