One of the best talks about entrepreneurship and business models i’ve ever heard. Key thoughts: Charge money (WHO would have thought of that!!!) Provide great service (if you order shoes at 10pm and they are delivered the next morning, you’ll use this service again → Zappos) Be a decent italian restaurant. You don’t need to…
Category: Wealth
Trigami is Hiring
Economic crisis? Not at Trigami. We’re looking for a sales rep!
Interesting: The Economy Crash Course
Ready to learn everything you need to know about the economy in the shortest amount of time? The Crash Course seeks to provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you can better appreciate the risks that we all face. The Crash Course
Congrats to Doodle and Exsila!
Doodle was finally able to buy doodle.com which is now the default domain. Congrats to Paul and Mike! Exsila.ch just reached 50’000 members and 300’000 items!
Techcrunch Meetup Zurich
Yesterday I’ve been to Techcrunch Meetup Zurich (see also my Trigami-post). It was an awesome evening on the 15th floor of the Bluewin-Tower and I met a lot of friends. Congratz to the organizers Wuala, Doodle et al. My list of interesting Swiss Startups:MydeskfriendCassiberOptionrating.comPokenWebnode → all Startups from the Event
Evan Williams about Twitter
Excellent interview of Evan Williams by Mike Arrington. Twitter (company profile) just bought Summize (company profile) and now redirected it to Twitter Search. I fell in love with Summize and think this is a VERY good move for Twitter. The deal was most stock and some cash. The Summize-CEO left, the rest of the team…
Self-Organisation for Effectiveness
Pretty good summary of the Getting Things Done method: (via nicozorn) Important lessons: Get things out of your head into your inbox! Then process your inbox into projects and process every project into actionable items. I’ve done this for 8 months now and it works very well! Focus on one thing. Focus on the next…
Warren Buffett MBA-Talk
Recently I listened to this very interesting MBA-Talk with Warren Buffett: Warren only invests in stuff that he understands He doesn’t trade, he invests! His main decision making source is Annual Reports He only buys at a “good price” He only buys things with the intention to hold them forever (no rule without exception) He…
Alibaba.com chooses Switzerland for European Market Entry
Recently I read this article about Alibaba.com’s European Market entry. It summarized the very interesting Alibaba.com case: Alibaba.com is the largest Chinese B2B Marketplace (matchmaker between buyers and sellers of all kinds of goods, from T-Shirts to Trains or Factories) and rapidly growing worldwide (28M Users) In November 2007, Alibaba.com raised $1.7B in an IPO…
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…