Archive for November, 2006

Big Idea Video Contest Started by Some Silicon Valley VCs

November 30th, 2006

When I started my office hours some time ago, some VCs asked me whether I wasn’t getting inundated with random requests. Turns out that I get really good questions and hear about interesting businesses in most of these calls, so providing new “inbound channels” to VCs seems like a worthwhile idea.

I just came across another […]

Social Shopping in Germany

November 10th, 2006

While browsing my (German) blog subscriptions, I just came across the Exciting Commerce weblog again, a really worthwhile read when it comes to the German eCommerce scene. An interesting post from David Beisel on social shopping is also discussed there, I recommend reading it - social commerce of course is one of the topics that […]

Why the “S-Box Web 2.0 Performance-Index“ Seems Like a Bad Idea

November 7th, 2006

Benjamin Wittorf just sent me the link to this article from the FAZ that talks about the Stuttgart stock exchange starting a new index tracking “Web 2.0 companies”. I find that somewhere between just funny and alarming:

Most of the companies tracked are typical Internet stocks (Google, Ebay, Yahoo….). These are companies that have […]

Bar Camp Cologne, SIME 06, Le Web 3

November 7th, 2006

I am just trying to figure out which conference I’ll really be able to attend during the rest of the year…it’s a busy season. I just got an invite to SIME 06 which looks interesting, there’s Le Web 3 in Paris during December and a series of BarCamps…the next one coming up in Cologne on […]