http://blogging.vc A European Perspective on Venture Capital and the Internet Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:33:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am happy to help spread the news that our portfolio company Vuze - the open, high-resolution Internet TV platform formerly known as Azureus - has closed its third round of funding. The $20M financing was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mike Ramsay, co-founder of TiVo, is joining the Vuze Board of ... http://blogging.vc/2007/12/vuzecom-closes-20m-round-with-new-investor-nea Our portfolio company Sonim [Disclosure: Yes, if you spend 250Eur here you support an investment of BV Capital] just got its first big German review of its XP1 "toughest mobile phone" from T-Online. I have played with it in the US a bit already and tried to throw it out of the window of our office ... http://blogging.vc/2007/12/sonim-xp1-the-phone-for-real-men Not a single conversation with a VC these days goes by without two questions: (1) How long will the sun still shine on Internet investing? and (2) does the subprime/debt crisis have any effect? While we all should admit that we don't know the right answer to (1), direct impact ... http://blogging.vc/2007/12/yoububble This morning I gave a talk on "Business Models for Web 2.0 companies" at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. For those interested, the slides can be downloaded here.Looks like there is a good turnout of people here, it's just unfortunate that the Berlin Fairgrounds that were chosen as a venue must be ... http://blogging.vc/2007/11/my-talk-at-web-20-expo-in-berlin Congratulations to everyone in our portfolio company Fotolog! These guys have worked incredibly hard for many years to build what has become an extremely close-knit and active community of people sharing pictures on a daily basis. This is not "just another" photo sharing site, but a communications platform where people ... http://blogging.vc/2007/08/hi-media-group-enters-into-agreement-to-acquire-fotolog Want to put your startup on the map? Here's your chance: The two fantastic students working for me (they did all the real work!) decided that my idea of mapping start-ups in flickrvision.com-style could be some fun so we threw a few hours of work at it and here's the ... http://blogging.vc/2007/08/startupvergnuegen Thanks to the folks at Vuze, I got a ticket to the Techcrunch Party at August Capital. I have to say that for anyone wanting to understand what "Silicon Valley Networking" is about, such a party is the best crash course. Selected obeservations: Setup. A few hundred people on a sunny ... http://blogging.vc/2007/07/techcrunch-party-at-august-capital The FAZ posted an article today claiming that an increasing number of US VCs are starting to look for investments in Germany and also considering to open offices in London. Now, haven't we heard this story once before? 1999 all over again? However, when you read on, the authors point out ... http://blogging.vc/2007/07/faz-us-vcs-coming-to-germany The Worldbank released a piece of software called BuzzMonitor that keeps track of what is being said about the Worldbank on the Internet. While I haven't tried it (you have to set it up on a server) it has some interesting features like using the Yahoo terms API for automatic ... http://blogging.vc/2007/06/the-worldbank-releases-buzz-tracking-software Suddenly, my old Buffalo LinkStation network storage at home crashed, and of course there was some data on there I had not recently backed up...so I took it apart (if you ever disassemble a LinkStation, note that they think it's funny to hide a screw behind the model sticker - ... http://blogging.vc/2007/06/disk-trouble-and-help-from-ukraine