Archive for January, 2008

Good Insight

Posted on January 31, 2008. Filed under: Life |

Mr Techcrunch (Michael Arrington) is really good at this.

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Dark Day – Bright Light in the Horizon

Posted on January 31, 2008. Filed under: Venture Capital, VentureOfMine, newspaper |

Today we had to layoff quite a lot of people at my newspaper and restructure quite a bit. I really rally hated it, Im simply to soft for shit like that. But it was simply needed to make our profit plans work. And even though Im really hard to myself on it and have to [...]

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How Schools Should Teach

Posted on January 29, 2008. Filed under: Life |

I  looove this movie and this guy (enthusiasm beats all glossy production tricks!!!) – wow. I learn so much – Wii learn – its just amasing – to see how technology evolve with lightspeed just because everyone has a global voice. Also it makes me think about how Youtube (or whatever [...]

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DNA and You

Posted on January 29, 2008. Filed under: Weird Stuff, technology |

23 and Me – is so interesting when you think about it for a minute. Ad off course just the act that its a Googlewfe behind it – kind of gives another dimension. Off course Ester Dyson is in as investor/help – (ED you are amasing!)

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My Friend Is Dead

Posted on January 29, 2008. Filed under: dead |

Chris Devries was a good business friend – and only 21 years old at hearth and mind. He really had a deep impact on me – as a non teaching teacher – and as a friend you could ask about the bigger questions in life. Working at CityBank for a life time he had a [...]

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Someone Asked Me

Posted on January 26, 2008. Filed under: Life, Venture Capital |

Someone asked me what stuff I owned (invested in) that no one knows about and that is super cool.
HEALTCARE.com
I have to say that www.heathcare.com is supercool just going BIG BIG.
Why its killer: The person
OPENSTREETMAP.org
This thing is killer – http://www.openstreetmap.org – people simple build maps from scratch with GPS equipement [...]

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Capitalistic Philantrophy

Posted on January 25, 2008. Filed under: Life |

As you see from my WILD idea – I have an urgent need to change the world a little bit. And this video of Bill Gates speaking at Davos about CREATIVE CAPITALISM (the wording is really stupid) is really interesting.

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Keep an eye on noovo.com

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: Venture Capital, VentureOfMine, talent, technology |

The team is stellar – and advisory board rocks (for a Slovenian biz.. – and now the press picks up even before launch – see Techcrunch.
http://blog.noovo.com/
I did invested during summer – lucky again…

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15mio€ to United Mobile

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: Life |

I invested in this brilliant company United Mobile last year in spring – and sales and technology is skyrocking. And now its the 800pound gorilla of the venture industry steps in -  Accel Ventures – the guys who invested in Facebook – have just injected 15mio€ to make the growth even faster. Management is stelar [...]

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Hello Going International – Larry King ;)

Posted on January 23, 2008. Filed under: VentureOfMine |

This invitation is fantastic – drop by and have a drink. Thomas is setting up our shop in NYC – and the selfconfidence is there as you se

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