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My talk at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin

November 6th, 2007

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 [...]

Hi-Media Group Enters into Agreement to Acquire Fotolog

August 27th, 2007

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 [...]

Startupvergnuegen.com – Put Your Startup on the Map!

August 16th, 2007

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 [...]

Techcrunch Party at August Capital

July 30th, 2007

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 [...]

FAZ: US VCs Coming to Germany

July 6th, 2007

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 [...]

The Worldbank Releases Buzz Tracking Software

June 26th, 2007

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 [...]

Disk Trouble and Help from Ukraine

June 24th, 2007

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 [...]

Jobs & Gates Interview

June 21st, 2007

It’s been a few weeks since Steve Jobs and Bill Gates sat down for an interview together at the Wall Street Journal’s D conference. Only [...]

Don’t look!

June 21st, 2007

The folks at verwandt.de are currently running an online version of one of my favorite children’s birthday games…sort of an online treasure hunt where the [...]

Reboot Snippets

May 31st, 2007

So Reboot this year is on humanity….here are a few tidbits from this morning illustrating the breadth of the discussions: On humans (Robert Paterson) Humans [...]