Michael just pointed me to an interesting incubation initiative in Cologne: Speedseed (Site in German). The folks there started with their own entrepreneurial activities back at university and their incubation program seems to be well suited for students: Teams that are accepted into the program get to work with the Speedseed folks for three months, […]
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Interesting Incubator Initiative in Cologne
May 10th, 2007
VC FAQ: Where do I find a good Venture Capital lawyer?
April 2nd, 2007
As we do many early stage deals, we sometimes run into a situation where our investment would be the first venture financing in the career of a young entrepreneur. In such situations, its critically important for the entrepreneur to retain good legal counsel, so he can see through all the VC lingo and make sure […]
BestBuy Acquires Speakeasy
March 27th, 2007
Our portfolio company Speakeasy announced today that it would be acquired by BestBuy. Here’s the full release. We have been using Speakeasy’s high quality broadband services at our US office and have always been thrilled with their service, so I am sure that this will be a strong addition to BestBuy’s offering and a great […]
BV Capital leads investment in German Experteer.de
March 26th, 2007
I’ve got some shameless self-promotion today, but bear with me since I am really excited about the deal: BV Capital is leading a round of financing of Experteer.de, with Wellington Partners of Munich also participating in the round.
Experteer is a career service for everyone aiming to make more than 60,000
Euros annual salary. For a monthly […]
Web 2.0 Investments Double in 2006
March 23rd, 2007
I saw this article in VentureWire, a newsletter for VCs, yesterday:
Start-ups dabbling in the so-called Web 2.0 space raised $844.4 million in 2006, more than double the previous year, highlighting the gold rush for the next YouTube.
However, while an industry report issued today confirmed that investors are undoubtedly flooding into these start-ups across the globe, […]
Zudeo Launches
December 4th, 2006
One of the privileges of being a VC is being able to see your portfolio companies grow and be successful. One of these companies is Azureus , which is currently launching its new product called “Zudeo“. I will spare you a lot of the details since you probably caught them already on GigaOm […]
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 […]
Web 2.0 Investment Data
October 13th, 2006
In my presentation earlier this week I showed a graph for overall (not only Internet, but other sectors included) venture investment, which has remained relatively steady over the last few quarters. That’s definitely somewhat reassuring when looking at talk of another VC bubble, since overall investment numbers had increased strongly during the last boom.
I also […]
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