Today's Entrepreneur: Ziv Eliraz

Kristin Karaoglu · July 2, 2012 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/2801

No. 1 mistake: Not listening

Today's Entrepreneur is Ziv Eliraz, Founder & CEO of Zao.com. According to his VEQ, Ziv is a thought leader and is good at sales execution and product management.

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I am a(n):
Lucky to work with such a great team of investors and employees

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Zao.com

Startups I worked for:
Emblaze, Hotbar, SmartShopper, Amobee, Infolinks

If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I'm bursting with ideas!

My favorite startups:
Optimizely, Leap Motion, Netotiate, Kickstarter

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
The most rewarding thing is creating something that gives people that feeling that what they have in their hands is really going to change the way they do things for the better.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Not listening

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. "Overnight successes" need a lot of preparation and hard work
2. Product is everything
3. Stop talking and truly listen...

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Kristin Karaoglu

Woman of many skills: Database System Engineer; SplashX event producer; Author of Startup Teams

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Related Companies, Investors, and Entrepreneurs

Zao.com

Startup/Business

Joined Vator on June 29, 2012

Zao is revolutionizing social recruiting by enabling companies to offer referral rewards to their professional and personal networks for referral hires, in addition to their employees.

Zao opens up a whole world of referrals from former employees, vendors, professionals and business partners, all who intimately know great candidates, and are trusted by the company. Hiring managers love referrals because they are high quality, fast and low cost hires. Zao leverages social networks to make it easy for referrers to find and refer great candidates. Zao also makes it easy to track and reward all the people that help companies make successful hires, whether they work for the company or not.