I’ve recently spent 6 weeks on the west coast of Canada and USA, and I wanted to share some impressions. My favourite spot in the Rocky Mountains, between Jasper and Banff. Canoeing on Clearwater Lake. Random wisdom on the street. My favourite burger. 100% plant-based. My new friend. Grizzly bear Boo. Whitewater rafting on 7 celsius cold…
Tag: Travel notes
The benefits of going offline
I recently returned from a vacation in Italy, spending two weeks completely offline. The benefits of going offline: Old habits are broken. No Facebook, no Twitter, no checking emails, no wasting time. More time to listen to audiobooks and podcasts. Experiencing the true benefits of the internet: Google Maps, Wikipedia, Google, messaging apps. These were the services I missed…
Venture Leaders Boston 2008
Case Study Starbucks vs. Dunkin Donuts:Coffee at Dunkin stays warm for 2 hours; Coffee at Starbucks only 15–30 min. Learning: An apparantly tiny thing such as a different cup material can have huge implications. The coffee doesn’t matter, its the cup! Jessica Livingston — Author of the fantastic book ‘Founders at Work’ — her next book will be published…
Off to Boston (Venture Leaders)
Tomorrow (ehm… today) I’m flying to Boston for the 10-day Venture Leaders trip (see also news.ch). I’m very happy to have this opportunity representing Trigami during this unique journey. We will be 20 Swiss Entrepreneurs exploring the East Coast “Silicon Valley” (e.g. Paul from Doodle, Vincent from Prediggo, Chris from Dybuster etc.). The schedule will…
Trip to Paris
As you may have noticed I was in Paris today on a one-day business trip. Here is me seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time between the end of the meeting and running back to the station (unfortunately I had no time to get closer to the tower):
First Trip to Silicon Valley
Tonight is my last night in San Francisco and I want to sum up my first trip to the Valley with a few selected pictures. Yeah Baby ;-) — (if you want to read the text without having an idiot in front of it, click here) Yeah Baby ;-) #2 Stanford — The most beautiful campus I have ever seen (this…
trigami Dog: Party Animal in Berlin
(Constanze loved the trigami dog and introduced him to a lot of cool people. And since the dog has no real name yet, she wanted to dub him “Horst” — but maybe we should rethink that since Horst may be fine for Germany, but maybe not very much abroad ;-) how about “Tricksie” the trigami Dog or something…
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…
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…
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…