Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 30, 2003
Wow, that was quick. We were all waiting what's behind Kaltix mysterious new personalized search technology and for their first round of investment. But now Stefan reports, Google has snapped up...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 30, 2003
Symphony a sophisticated provider of outsourcing services such as cost management, analytics and software (product) development has received USD 20 mio. (!) in series B. The company features a mixed...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on September 30, 2003
I got quoted in Springwise' last newsletter. It features a hint of mine for Hamburg's 1,- EUR discount rental - Maxhopp.......
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 29, 2003
I have no idea how this site could hide from me for so long, but PWC MoneyTree is a nice resource. It i.e. gives you an overview about TOP 100 US VC firms and the number of early stage investments......
Read the full post.
is the topic of this article. It basically argues that tech companies should find the way to migrate from 'simple' product innovation to business process improvement. "A close examination...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on September 29, 2003
David L. Sifry, founder and CTO of Sputnik has a nice presentation with just 15 simple, easy to remember rules for entrepreneurs. Sputnik has some success in the fast growing wireless networking...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on September 28, 2003
In the middle of the recession convenience services and products might seem a bit inappropriate but several companies haven just taken on convenience business models during the last 3 years. Uncounted...
Read the full post.
The WSJ has focused on the rise of three Chinese SMS portals in the friday issue. sohu.com and NetEase.com have developed hundreds of SMS applications from the basic, such as graphics and ring-tone...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 27, 2003
Telesym has closed an oversubscribed round of USD 12.5 mio. Telesym is a very cool Voice-over-IP application I discovered some months back. The innovation is a bundle of improvements to classical...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 26, 2003
I came across the small German brother of Idiom at yesterdays ebizz event. 24translate.de is a purely web based translation services company. 24 translate has managed to map most company workflows...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 26, 2003
has been surveyed by McKinsey.The strongest expectation is a possible decrease in costs inside stores. Have a look.......
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 26, 2003
I just found that Wired sheds some more light on my article on WeblogsInc. . "Calacanis expects to launch his self-funded venture with five or six in-house blogs, expanding quickly to about 20 --...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on September 25, 2003
Stef Wertheimer has earned much respect for his entrepreneurial achievements and his plan to open several industrial parks all over the middle east. Now the Economist has contributed a full article to...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on September 25, 2003
I had the chance to attend Catcap's business angel lounge on Tuesday evening in Hamburg. It aims to bring together business angels and entrepreneurs. Overall four companies pitched for financial...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 25, 2003
There is an interesting new concept of Weblogs Inc. capitalize the marketing value of weblogs. It is a marketing platform for several vertical weblogs. Content comes from independent authors. It is...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 24, 2003
The NYT has another good one - about comparison shopping. I have always been quite reluctant with the revenue potential of such portals. But it seems they are going to spring up everywhere....
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 24, 2003
We all have heard the promise of P2P echoing trough media announcements since Napster. Now business plans already adopted an inflationary use of P2P. It seems like C2C has just been changed by a...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on September 24, 2003
Wired has sent a reporter to a technology tradeshow TechxNY in New York City and they discovered a "modern slavery market". :-) The trade show has specialized in showcasing outsourcing...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 24, 2003
Idiom recently run through the ticker receiving USD 6 mio in new funding. It seems to have a found a pretty nice niche. Idiom provides"Advanced editing and translation technology to maximize...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on September 24, 2003
ALDI the famous Germany based retail chain has lately ventured into the eastern part of the US. ALDI is well known for high quality private label products and it's policy of total intransparency....
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on September 23, 2003
Winds of Change has a link festival on how to make commercial space flights effective und business wise feasible.......
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on September 22, 2003
The Economist journalists have two obsessions they like to elaborate on - the Ethernet and the US account-deficit. The actual issue covers the latter. But this one is brilliant it's actually worth...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 22, 2003
My weekend digest of the BW also included the future of technology section. One of the most interesting articles was about utility computing. I had educated myself a bit more here before. "IBM,...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on September 22, 2003
Business Week features an interesting list of the TOP 100 companies . It's more than the usual list of ballyhooed companies. You will be surprised seeing an Indonesian company (PT TELEKOMUNIKIASI)...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 18, 2003
This is probably the most blogged event I have seen so far. Some very different reports from the same panel about social software. It seems like everybody attended a different session. Andrew Anker,...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on September 18, 2003
Teambuilding is one of the major tasks for setting up a company. The importance of entrepreneurial networks was discussed here earlier. So, how to find these team members with extraordinary skills for...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 18, 2003
Wired has a nice article about two companies producing new types of projection methods. IO2Technology impresses viewers with an image projected on vaporized water. The nice thing it track movements of...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on September 17, 2003
A.T. Kearney has published the latest FDI figures for 2003 (sorry but the 2003 report seems to be only available in German as of know). The overall investments have shrunken from 824 to 651 billion...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Technology
by tj on September 17, 2003
Pumatech a provider of sync software for various mobile devices and maker of the Intellisync product suite has acquired Synchrologic for USD 60 mio. Quite some deal in this industry nowadays. This...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 17, 2003
gets a bit more interesting. Oatsystems a software provider has closed the first round with an impressive USD 11.5 mio. from Matrixpartners and Greylock Management. The RFID management software closes...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 17, 2003
Europe has been a little late adopting the Netflix DVD rental model. Videoisland in UK has now raised a comfortable USD 3.367 mio in the second round. I haven't heard of any bigger round for a...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on September 16, 2003
Mario has brought the P2P online betting market to my attention. He gives more inside about business figures for the biggest provider of these kinds of online betting betfair.com based in UK. P2P...
Read the full post.
