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Rebooting…

May 31st, 2007

Reboot 9.0 just started in Copenhagen….probably the only conference with more than 500 people attending but no marketing, no real program set by the organizers [...]

Interesting Incubator Initiative in Cologne

May 10th, 2007

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 [...]

next07 in Hamburg Tomorrow

May 2nd, 2007

Tomorrow the Next07 conference will be going on in Hamburg. For once an interesting conference that doesn’t require more than a subway ride (for me) [...]

Web Analytics OR Big Brother is Watching

April 24th, 2007

I just took a look at RobotReplay.com which launched last week and claims to be a new way to do web analytics by tracking your [...]

re:publica in Berlin

April 12th, 2007

Just arrived in incredibly sunny Berlin at the re:publica conference…seems like there is a pretty good turn out, and the very “Berlin-like” location Kalkscheune already [...]

Azureus Unveils Vuze.com

April 5th, 2007

Our portfolio company Azureus just unveiled Vuze, the shiny new version of their client formerly code-named Zudeo. Check it out at Vuze.com! The team there [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]