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…
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Exsila goes Germany!
Exsila has just launched their German version. Congrats to Rouven & Reto to this move! I think it’s very smart and I’m looking forward to the battle with Hitflip ;-).
Trigami Wins Innovationspreis 2008
Seesmic raised $6 Mio from Niklas and Others
I’ve just watched Loic’s Stanford speech: Learnings: # Loic raised $6 mio from Niklas Zennstrom and 10 others (like Mike Arrington, Reid Hoffman etc.). He wanted to only raise money from entrepreneurs and not from VCs, because he has no businessplan and doesn’t know his revenue model yet → Entrepreneurs understand that, VCs don’t ;-). #…
New Trigami-Products
See also our Press Release (pimped by Supertext ;-)
Exsila: Migros-Magazine Coverage Crashes Servers
GREAT news for Exsila: 1. Coverage in Migros-Magazine (reach: 2.3 mio readers) crashes servers. Thats the bad news. The good news is: A couple of thousand of new members in one week (now 28’000 and counting). 2. Exsila merges with Tradefarm and gains another 1000 users. 3. Coverage in CASHdaily Podcast. Rouven said in the…
Contrats to Jonas and Roland!
Contrats to the great coverage in 20min! MemberYou seems to have found his niche: Organizing professional (poker) events — not online, but offline in the real world! The last poker event was the biggest event that was ever organized in the Basel area outside of the Grand Casino Basel (according to 20min). I think that’s great and…
Congrats to Wuala!
Congrats to Dominik for the great road show in the Valley. Here are some of the amazing results: * Techcrunch coverage * A presentation at Google * GigaOm coverage * A facebook group with 200 members (and growing) This is awesome and this makes Wuala to probably one of the hottest Swiss Startups of the…
Congrats to Exsila: 20’000 members in one year!
Congrats to the 20’000 members! I am one of them (since September 2006) and a very happy one, too. My experiences: # I’ve swapped 54 items so far. # I’ve eliminated all my teenager CDs and invested the money in cool DVDs (mainly 24, Lost, Sopranos, O.C. California). # I didn’t swap any books. I’m…
YepNep is live!
Congrats Rouven and Reto! What I’m impressed about:#1: Lightspeed implementation of the idea within months (or even weeks?). Getting Real at it’s best! #2: It’s so freakin’ easy. KISS at it’s best! Guys, good luck! You will rock it!