Robert Lakin, at The Blogs

Jun 14, 2015, 1:09 PM

Can start-up thinking solve social needs?

A memorial in Jerusalem for the victims the August 2009 shooting attack at a gay youth center in Tel Aviv, on August 2, 2009. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

An organization to help homeless LGBT kids could provide a model for how to raise VC money to solve human problems

Mar 11, 2015, 8:32 PM

Israel’s Capital Markets Are In A Sad State

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange is now more than a year into the tenure of Yossi Beinart and it's no closer to solving the problems that led to the hiring of the new CEO in the first place. In fact,...

Mar 10, 2015, 1:37 PM

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Regulators (Finally) Get Around to Cleaning Up Israel’s Forex Market

The Israeli foreign exchange trading system has been a bit of the Wild West in the Middle East. No longer.

Oct 26, 2014, 6:18 PM

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No shiva for failed start-ups

Entrepreneurs gather at the Google campus in Tel Aviv. (Anna Morein)

The start-up nation has its failures, as well as its successes, but they're harder to find that its successes

Sep 28, 2014, 5:33 PM

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Who by Google, who by IPO?

The Wix team toasts its IPO on the Nasdaq trading floor earlier this year (Photo credit: Courtesy Wix)

With investment at an all time high, Israel's business sector could use some Yom Kippur-style introspection

Sep 7, 2014, 10:41 AM

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Who is Israel’s entrepreneur of the year?

Israeli supermarket mogul Rami Levy (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

in a country where every other person seems to have their own start-up, someone has to be the best

Aug 31, 2014, 2:53 PM

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Are Tel Aviv Sundays Worth $2 Billion?

A chart showing the TA-25 making a sharp drop. (Screenshot: Tase.co.il)

Shutting down weekend trading at the TA Stock Exchange will not magically solve the bourse's problems

Aug 26, 2014, 10:42 AM

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Fan mail to the central banker

Praise for embattled Bank of Israel governor, who's having a 'bad week'

Aug 21, 2014, 5:22 PM

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Of shoes and stocks

You know, two stock exchanges just might not be better than one

About Me

Robert is a financial writer and editor covering the Israel business scene at TLV Strategist and Analytika Research. He's a former editor at Bloomberg News in Tel Aviv, McKinsey & Co. and McDonald & Company Investments.