I heard this speach of Jyri the first time at Reboot9, and now I watched it a second time after Loic pointed me to it again. My Learnings: Social Networks that are just “Social Networks” will fail (= Butterfly effect) Every service needs social objects (Flickr = fotos; Amazon = books; MySpace = music; etc.)…
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Exsila found investor and incorporated Exsila AG
As Exsila announced recently, Beat Schillig (Managing Director of “Institut für Jungunternehmen”) invested 200’000 CHF (according to SF Start-up) in the company. As a result, Exsila incorporated Exsila AG on 11th June 2007 (funny thing, Exsila AG is only one day older than trigami AG :-). In the meantime, Exsila achieved some other major milestones: #…
Trip to Berlin & Hasso Plattner Institute
Last week I took a 2-day trip to Berlin, visiting an event at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and visiting some friends in Berlin. (Morten Lund in a panel — read my twit) (The trigami dog enjoyed the good food and networking) (Very interesting presentation of an extreme alpinist. See my twit. Note to myself: Remember…
First Kiva-loan repaid, reinvested in Africa
Four months after my first Kiva-investments, my first loan was paid back 100%. I reinvested the money in Togo (Africa) to a female entrepreneur who runs a general store. Meanwhile, over $7 million has been invested through Kiva from 70’000 people. Most interestingly, 99.76% of all the money has been paid back 100% — isn’t this just…
Sunday trip to Munich
Yesterday I did a short one-day trip to Munich. I went to visit Amiando.com (they have apparantly a 7-day week) in their new headquarters (headcount is 16 people now — wow!). I also met the founders of MyMuesli.de, and Jochen Krisch (Exciting Commerce). First I took a very nice walk downtown: But it was so hot that…
California, here we come…
Loic Le Meur is moving to San Francisco. Why he is doing that he explains in his newest Podcast: Actually, over the last year I decided that I will move to California, too. Maybe not tomorrow, but most probably in 3–7 years. My reasons are: #1: THE WEATHER!!! I cannot stand it being depressed for…
Dog Attack!
“It’s boring listening to the notary. I want to GET OUT and EXPLORE the world!” “Why not taking a TRIP to Zurich?” “Pit stop at Starbucks.” “On the way to SF Start up party. Getting excited!!!” “Hello Google.” “Dominik fell in love with me so much that he wants to bite my ear. I love…
I am also blogging for Gruenderszene.de now
I am happy to announce that from now on I will blog about Swiss Entrepreneurship on Gründerszene. Here is the official announcement Thanks for the honor. I’ll try to post a “Swiss update” at least every two weeks. PDF
Report from Copenhagen (Reboot 9.0)
Last week I was in Copenhagen at Reboot 9.0. The Metro is AWSOME, it is fully automated and you can sit in the “drivers seat”: Here we’re searching the station and playing with the trigami-dog We even took the dog to the disco and talked to like 30 people about it — it’s a GREAT ice breaker ;-)….
memberYou.com — Managing leisure time
My friends Jonas and Roland launched their baby last tuesday with a big launch party with 150 people. memberyou lets you manage your leisure time. You can find friends with the same hobby, join groups and plan and attend events together. Cool stuff about memberyou: #1: memberyou was among the top 38 of SF Start-up…