Startup Entrepreneurs and COVID-19: a Real Challenge | Innovation Management

The coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be an international economic crisis, with ramifications for all industries and markets, similar to the crisis of 2008. A cross-border economic crisis affects companies large and small, trying an organization’s management and its employees.

Startup entrepreneurs, known for their creativity and flexibility, are rapidly confronting the crisis in various ways. Over the last few days, entrepreneurs in different fields have started to share their conduct consequent to the business challenge that this economic crisis – a direct result of the corona pandemic – is posing. Some are serial entrepreneurs who went through a similar economic slump in 2008 and are sharing their experience with others.

In this blogpost, I am happy to share some insights of Israeli entrepreneurs confronting the challenge.

Take care!

About the Author

Itai Green is the founder and CEO of Innovate Israel. He is one of the dominant leaders of Israel’s corporate open innovation. Itai is recognised as a leading player in Israel’s startup ecosystem and is at the forefront of launching its growth at a rapid pace. Itai leads innovation processes by connecting global corporations with the Israeli startup community to create advanced technological solutions; focusing on IT, consumer products, pharma, finance, travel, e-commerce, retail, banking, insurance, energy, construction tech and IoT. Itai is a member in several startup advisory boards. In the past, Itai was head of business development and Innovation at Amadeus IT Group in Israel, amongst other prominent positions at Elbit, CEO at Maxtech Technologies, VP Business Development at Techtium and the co-founder of JerusalemOnline. Itai is the founder of the ITTS community (Israel Travel Tech Startups). ITTS houses 350 Israeli traveltech entrepreneurs and strengthens the internal collaboration between startups, as well as increases the level of engagement between startups, multinationals and investors. Itai has also created the IITS community (Israel Insurance Tech Startups) for the Insurance start-up sector.