When I joined Target Partners in early 2007 I also changed sides of the table from being an entrepreneur to becoming “One of them”, a VC. During my time as an entrepreneur I had a lot of experience working with VCs and related investment managers. Over time I became very critical of VC’s and investment [...]
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Critical and caricatural picture of a VC
Posted in Entrepeneurs, Fun, Investments, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital, tagged Entrepreneur, Venture Capital on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Big Thing: Social Gaming
Posted in Entrepeneurs, Fun, Investments, Life, Startups, Technology on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am screening this particular trend and market since some months and I will share some key findings about social gaming in my next posts.
The animation gives you a brief intro about social gaming:
Beach Volleyball ChampCamp 2009
Posted in Fun, Life, Sports on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The summer season is near and the first tournaments will start in May. It’s time to exercise and to the get the final cut. As every year we are going to Mallorca to join the ChampCamp Beach Volleyball Camp:
5 days training
Experiences and well-educated coaches (especially Martin)
A lot of fun with 80 players
My personal paradigm shift: from an entrepreneur to a Venture Capitalist
Posted in Entrepeneurs, Fun, Investments, Life, Sports, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital, tagged Angel investor, Company, Development Stage, Entrepreneur, Financial Services, Investment, Venture Capital on March 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From 1999 until the end of 2006 I founded several technology startups. I am also a business angel and have invested in several startups since 2001. During this time I learned a lot about the startup business. How to raise money? How to build execution driven management teams? How to market products? And how [...]
21 Economic Models explained with Cows – 2009 update
Posted in Fun, Investments, Life on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, [...]
G1 – first try
Posted in Fun, Life on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I had the chance to check the G1 from a pure user perspective.
If you want to read something about the features and the specs you will find a lot – just search for “G1 vs. iPhone”. I am not going to talk about features and specs. tbh – I don’t care that much that [...]
The Forbes Chirp Index
Posted in Fun, Investments, Life on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When will this recession end? No question – it will end
Forbes announced its Chirp Index which includes a lot of early indicators. Right now it’s singing a possible economic rebound in August 2009.
Wether Forbes is right or not. We’ll know in 12 months. But I like the fact that someone tells us that [...]
Capital City Beachvolleyball Cup 2008
Posted in Fun, Life, Sports, Startups, Uncategorized on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Wahlkreis invited to a turnament in Berlin. Andre and I played the Beachvolleyball Cup and represented Trupoli and Polixea.
The other teams were from TV station (ZDF), political parties and some other political orientated organizations.
We played the final under floodlight and with about 100 spectators. Long story short: Andre and I have won.
Online Naturalization Test
Posted in Fun, Life on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are intensive discussions about an official Naturalization Test in Germany. Here are some examples. Just check it out
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/jobkarriere/special/180/179628/
just think about it
Posted in Entrepeneurs, Fun, Investments, Startups on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do you still remember the year 2000? Young founders (often from BCG or McKinsey) presented their ideas about ecommerce websites on a one-pager and asked for funding? As a matter of fact – some investors gave them money. Why? Because everybody else invested in an ecommerce website. It was not a question about market size, [...]
