Not that it had anything to do with venture capital, but I did find this article posted at Forbes quite interesting: Apparently Ryanair is considering to allow the use of cell phones on planes. They are fuzzy about whether this would be done using “pico cells” on board or just “allowing” the cell phone to […]
Archive for August, 2006
Ryanair as a technology leader?
August 31st, 2006
Gate5 AG acquired
August 31st, 2006
One of the start-ups that survived the boom and bust, Berlin based navigation software provider Gate5 AG, announced today that it is being acquired by Nokia. I remember Gate5’s management team being on the cover of a major German magazine after winning a business plan competition during the boom…but of course they got hit by […]
Geek Sports
August 24th, 2006
I just played with a piece of software that has been around for a while but must be the best marriage of geekdom and sports…TrailRunner for the Mac.
It lets you import data from the Nike/iPod combo, works with Google geographic data and does a bunch of other cool things. Seems like it’s developed by a […]
Venture Capital FAQ Part II: Do’s and Don’ts to get the right VC meeting
August 16th, 2006
Yesterday, I got a call from someone doing a survey on “What are the most frequent mistakes entrepreneurs make when approaching VCs?”, which motivated me to write up the second part of my FAQ. If you know the VC game and industry you should skip this post, but if you think VCs pull their deals […]
TIME.com’s 50 coolest websites
August 14th, 2006
This morning I came across the annual selection of TIME’s 50 coolest websites…I am not sure it’s really the top 50 of the web, but it’s definitely a nice little overview of some new and old favorites on the web.
It doesn’t mention one of my all time favorites, craigslist.org, on which I saw a nice […]
Podcast with Christian
August 8th, 2006
Back in February I sat down with Cathy Brooks of Guidewire Group (The folks who organize the popluar DEMO conference) for a podcast interview. I hadn’t realized until Sven pointed me to it that it had been put up on their site a little while ago…so if you want to hear my voice, go check […]
Google and MySpace
August 8th, 2006
While it was of course covered at Techcrunch and many other sites already, I find NewsCorp’s announcement to power MySpace search with Google a very interesting one. The deal looks as follows:
According to comScore, MySpace was the 6th most visited site in June and currently has a bout 50M monthly searches on it, growing […]
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