Venture Capital

A Super Kid

Posted on February 25, 2008. Filed under: Venture Capital, VentureOfMine |

Just had a skype call with Murti from www.peanutlabs.com – started jan 07 – and now doing 5mio$ rev this year. Please tell me stories that beat this (in comment).
Someone in the deal called them 4 founders – a bunch of unorganised kids – I originally invested in their social network – www.xuqa.com [...]

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Nyhedsavisen Officially Number One

Posted on February 6, 2008. Filed under: Venture Capital, VentureOfMine, newspaper |

Today was a FANTASTIC day for my newspaper – Nyhedsavisen is now officially number one in readers in Denmark. Dont mix it up with being number one in profitability – but its a VERY VERY good start 4 weeks after taking over. Im still feeling trouble in my stomach when I think about the 180 [...]

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BullGuard – Finaly Getting There

Posted on February 5, 2008. Filed under: BullGuard, Venture Capital, VentureOfMine |

The AMASING TEAM at BullGuard – (my consumer Anti Virus baby) – is really having a breaktrough (basicly we always just wanted to beat DanWare in revenue for some srange reason – sorry Peter . But its also 6years – and more then 12mioUSD we have spend to build it. Im so proud of [...]

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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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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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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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Im Now Majority in Nyhedsavisen

Posted on January 17, 2008. Filed under: Venture Capital, VentureOfMine, fast |

Wow I feel lucky – I took over controle of the paper with the management and some of my most admired Danish online entrepanuers (www.freeway.dk – lots of people dont know them – but when you say Dating.dk, Arto.dk, Trendsales.dk, DKBN.dk – everyone knows – they are by far the biggest danish online media company [...]

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Dubai & Me & Tariq Shaikh

Posted on January 5, 2008. Filed under: Venture Capital, VentureOfMine, family, learn, smarter, talent, think |

I here to meet with my fantastic partner Tariq Shaikh. He is one of my very most smart and interesting partners – and his for the last 14months been setting up a very special private equity company – something I cant really go deeper into – but you can see on the website and beneath. [...]

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Gary Snoman Lost It ?

Posted on December 22, 2007. Filed under: Life, Venture Capital, think | Tags: |

I have been in love with this joke – and all the irony and the spot on selfironic jokes about the ventures business.. But darn – Gary lost it this year ;( – or maybe there is just no more to say…
See this Christmas episode
2007
2006
2005

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Who Is Who And Who Is Something

Posted on November 26, 2007. Filed under: Calacanis, Lucky, Venture Capital, bizz, blogging, m&a, media, meetings, technology, ventures, video |

STATEMENT: I FEEL SO LUCKY
But I do wonder quite a bit about how networks and circles starts and goes on. Le Web 3 – makes me first wonder: “How the fuck did I get on stage again (after Mountain Partners, Sime (fantastic), TechTour (no good)…) – since I dont really have anything to say – [...]

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