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by tj on May 09, 2008
This is what Air Ship Ventures has achieved literally: Airship Ventures, a privately held corporation formed to bring Zeppelin NT airship operations to the USA, today announced that it had closed its...
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by tj on May 07, 2008
I found an email today from a WHDB representative. I subsequently checked out the homepage and found a very interesting business model. WHDB organizes learning and strategic expeditions for...
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by tj on May 07, 2008
I finally had the chance today to meet with Ralf Schmelter, one of the PhD students behind "Venture Road Trip". Ralf and his fellow colleagues have interviewed many serial entrepreneurs and...
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by tj on March 03, 2008
Creative Weblogging sees a growing share of international traffic (from the above markets) in our network. Therefore we are looking for sales reps with prior internet marketing/sales experience who...
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by tj on January 30, 2008
Kissnofrog is (as you may have guessed) a new online dating service. The company just launched in Germany and let's user talk in dedicated sessions via web cams and microphones. I'm an...
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by tj on January 28, 2008
One of the big breakthroughs of the Internet in the last 15 years has been financial tools. Information distributed with the speed of light that can be translated into instant profits - the internet...
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by tj on January 22, 2008
Jollo.com is a website that relies on the long tail to find translations for common phrases in multiple languages. Right now phrases such as "Je voudrais réserver une place près de la fenêtre,...
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by tj on December 27, 2007
Auren relieves some pressure and rants about the inflated prices and priorities for wine. First, why is it so important to drink alcohol at a proper meal? I mean, is it so important that we need to...
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by tj on December 26, 2007
So we have been doing that for some time - adding blogs to the network but nobody really know that we were doing that with EXISTING blogs. I outlined that a little here. In a nutshell - why should...
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by tj on December 20, 2007
This has been an area of extreme caution in the past 5 years but seems specialized retailers with a social networking spin are back on track convincing VCs as Tornado Insider reports: dress-for-less,...
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by tj on December 17, 2007
I remember from starting newtron in 1999 in Germany trotting over to our payroll service consultant every month and duly reporting changes in the HR roster and receiving a roster of paper slips....
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by tj on December 17, 2007
Content Sharing sites have seen a boom not only since the Youtube mega-deal. The basic economics work like that: - We build a feature rich site where users can upload A, B, C - We add social...
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by tj on December 06, 2007
So there is no such thing as a new bubble? Maybe, maybe not - but this is a really cool video about it. Welcome to the Silicon Valley 2007!......
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by tj on November 19, 2007
What a joy it is to have two little babies (yes twins). It's an amazing feeling that nature has interwoven into our DNA - but it's such a pleasure - just looking at our babies is one of the...
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by tj on October 18, 2007
CW used to have all server with a company called thePlanet in Texas (formerly Servermatrix). They deliver good products and have an outstanding customer support. However they got desperate and raised...
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by tj on October 18, 2007
Cem has numbers about the real size of Facebook - astonishing! * Facebook now has more than 42 million active users (double the number one year ago when it opened up registration and growing at more...
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by tj on October 09, 2007
Here is what I recently posted in Linkedin - but I wanted to let my readers here to have a share (now that I know that Richard Branson is reading my blog too :). There is a business idea......
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by tj on October 05, 2007
So standing in Frankfurt's train station I finally discovered Richard Branson's autobiography "Losing my virginity". It's an amazing book with rich detail about Branson's...
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by tj on July 12, 2007
Guy Kawasaki - VC, tech evangelist and author of most TOP 10 lists for entrepreneurs has a new startup - truemors.com. Truemors is basically a blog where everybody can post entries that are, you...
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by tj on July 06, 2007
Certainly it was about time for that to happen - kiva.org is seemingly the worlds first liquid marketplace for micro loans. Actually the site is around for some years now but only now gets a bit more...
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by tj on April 17, 2007
So here are my five cents of the Webmonday in April 2007 in San Francisco. The crowd was excellent with a healthy mix of German 'Silicon Valley Community' and Web2Expo visitors that stopped...
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by tj on April 06, 2007
One Venture Capitalist at a breakfast sponsored by the Silicon Valley Bank that I once attended put it very bluntly: "Valuations do not say much about a potential success of a business."...
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