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Felix Petersen presents Plazes.com

Felix Petersen is a founder of Plazes, a Zurich/Berlin based company which provides geo-location services. Felix agreed that I record his presentation at Red Herring 100 in Cannes: Link: sevenload.com  Plazes has raised €2.7 mio early this year and is growing very fast. A cool thing about Plazes is that they want to digitize walk-in…

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March 31, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Sugih Jamin presents Zattoo

Sugih Jamin presents Zattoo.com Prof. Dr. Sugih Jamin is co-founder and CTO of the Swiss/American startup Zattoo, which offers free live-television via Internet. He agreed that I record his Red Herring 100 presentation in Cannes: Link: sevenload.com  I had lunch with Sugih and learned several things: – Zattoo launched in Switzerland because of the cheap…

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March 31, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Please don’t close Red Herring offices in Zurich!

Yesterday evening I heard rumors that Red Herring International wants to close down the European offices at Technopark in Zurich. Alex, please don’t do that! Some Reasons: #1: Farley Duvall is doing a great job there #2: There were 7 Swiss companies among this years Red Herring 100. #3: There is a good reason why…

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March 28, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Impressions from Cannes

(What a wonderful morning → Remo is really happy :-) (This beach is AWESOME, and its RIGHT in the city!) Good thing I have another 6 hours to spend at the beach before I leave to cold Switzerland.

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March 28, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Tips from Giles McNamee for raising money

At lunch I sat next to Giles McNamee, co-founder of McNamee Lawrence & Co, an investment banking firm based in Boston, London and San Francisco.  His tips included: #1: Only work with people you like and trust. NEVER do a deal with people you don’t like or don’t trust.  #2: When you doing a VC-round,…

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March 26, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Red Herring 100: Babelgum — Competing with Joost

Very interesting company with a very cool name. I like the bubblegum thing :-). My notes: – Silvio Scaglia invested $13 Mio of his own money – The burn rate is 30–40 Mio EUR per year – Silvio Scaglia wants to generate 100 Mio EUR in revenues within maybe 3 years – Silvio Scaglia says he…

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March 26, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Red Herring 100: Blyk — Free Mobile Phone Calls

Pekka Ala-Pietilä is now talking about his company Blyk: Blyk is a pan-European free mobile operator for young people, funded by advertising. We’re launching first in the UK market in mid-2007, with other markets to follow. Blyk wants to be profitable within 24 months. More information in the Blyk Blog.

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March 26, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Red Herring 100: Am I the only “official” Blogger?

It’s kinda cool to be an official (and only) “Technology Blogger” on the attendee list :-) But I’m definitely not the only blogger here: Paul is a (live-)blogging VC ink Communications is blogging Lars Trieloff Peter Schüpbach announced to live-blog, too

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March 26, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Red Herring 100: 7 Swiss Companies

So I’m in Cannes now. Its quite beautiful here: According to the current issue of the Red Herring, there are 7 Swiss companies among the Red Herring 100: Asset4High Power LithiumIntelligent Medical ImplantsInnovative SiliconPlazesSpinX TechnologiesZattoo Contratulations to you guys! (on the left: Qype & Plazes, on the right: Where are you now? [pretty cool company…

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March 26, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

For 150 Euros to Red Herring 100 in Cannes :-)

I am very happy that I was invited to the Red Herring Venture Market Europe 100 Event in Cannes. I’ll be blogging about cool startups and I hope to meet a lot of you guys.  Did I mention that I love EasyJet and EasyJetHotels? Thanks to these services these 3 beautiful days in Cannes will…

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March 18, 2007May 19, 2020 by Remo Uherek

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