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eDarling: neue Dating -Plattform

... sich herausstellen, ob das neue Investment der Jamba-Millionäre marc , Alexander und Oliver Samwer aufgeht oder nicht. Die Pläne indes sind wahrlich groß, denn mit eDarling soll dem eigenen Projek...

Photobucket Mobile

- Photobucket Mobile - WebEx now offering remote desktop for the Mac - ZSF for Mac OS X - Swedish prosecutors dump 4,000 legal docs on The Pirate Bay - Free Sony Music from Pepsi and Amazon Superbowl Promo - Twitter in Japan - MacBook Air？ Macworld 2008 还有四个小时就要开幕了，在过去的几个小时中，有关的最大的话题似乎...

Deutsche Startups

...ress . Aber trotzdem nett. Und so sehen die Macher ihr vom European Founders Fund der Gebrüder Samwer und der Verlagsgruppe Holtzbrinck finanziertes und nicht ganz unumstrittenes Projekt selbst: ...

StudiVZ sells to Holtzbrinck

StudiVZ the most successful German Facebook clone has sold itself to the mother company of venture investor Holtzbrinck Networxs . StudiVZ has around 1 Million users (as far as I know active and non-active counted in that statistic ) - EUR 100 per user is not exactly cheap but also n...

ProSieben buys into MyVideo

... site Clipfish.de, which boasts about one sixth the number of films of MyVideo's 60,000. The Samwer brothers have shown a fortunate hand in importing innovations to Germany and then selling. Th...

Samwer brothers start Founders Fund Europe

... Alarm:Clock reports about the angel network that the Samwers have started: "In business as investors for about nine months now, the European Founders Fund has enetered the equity of 7 star...

LIVE from TieCon East 2006

We are having a great time here at TieCon - the organizers have brought in hundreds of Indian entrepreneurs and business executives who listen to the intellectual creme-de-la-creme of Bostons universities. Clayton Christensen gave a great keynote yesterday with his ideas known from the books. ...

Creative Weblogging - TOP 10 Week 24/2006

...log.com Cool Klonies on SkypeCool Klonies on Skype www.voip-weblog.com Youtube in Germany - Samwer brothers next deal? www.tjacobi.com Is Paradox The New Paradigm? www.businesspundit.com...

Youtube in Germany - Samwer brothers next deal?

... above is MyVideo done by a Berlin based media agency and an outsourcer in Romania. The venerable Samwer brothers are rumored to be behind this project too. The site looks pretty active and has all ...

Social Web: MySpace hat schon mehr als 56 Millionen Nutzer und Yahoo zieht nach

...t;. "In fünf Jahren ist Myspace mehr wert als Bertelsmann", prophezeite Oliver Samwer, der sich zusammen mit seinen Brüdern Marc und Alexander nach dem Verkauf des Auktionshauses Alando an ...

Are you at Syndicate?

If you are interested in the RSS and syndication space and the upcoming opportunities you should check if you can make it to Syndicate in San Francisco next week (Dec. 12-14th). "Themed "Transforming the Way Businesses Do Business", Syndicāte is a two-and-a-half day, business...

Manager testen Corporate Blogs

Nach Expertenschätzungen gibt es weltweit bereits rund 50 Millionen Weblogs, deren Veröffentlichung kostenlos und kinderleicht ist. Die meisten Autoren plappern über ihren Urlaub, die letzte Party oder andere private Dinge. Doch es gibt auch Corporate Blogs wie "Frostablog" , ü...

Thinking about recruiting

Bernard Moon is thinking about recruiting in general while facing the task for GoingOn in particular: " Find out what motivates people. What drives your prospective partners? If the sole factors are money and personal glory, I'd think hard about working with that person. Money ca...

ciao.com with exit

One of the high flyers in Germany's dotcom time was certainly ciao.com . Raising US $36+ million and burning cash heavily at the beginning it has returned astonishing profits recently : "Ciao AG, which is headquartered in Munich, was founded in 1999. In six European offices, located...

Feedburner with second round

Feedburner does its second round : "Chicago-based Feedburner, which helps publishers place ads within their RSS feeds, has just raised a $7 million second round of financing, after nabbing $1 million last year. No one in the space really offers all the services that Feedburner does. ...

WSJ about Blog Advertising

The WSJ has very well researched article about Blog Advertising: "Gawker Media, one of the biggest brands in Web log publishing, launched a saucy urban travel blog called Gridskipper on Jan. 31. On that day, the logo of the site's sole sponsor, Cendant Corp.'s Cheaptickets, could be...

about.com revenues

It turns out I was guessing about about.com's revenue slightly wrong : "According to Primedia, the deal represents a multiple of 10 times About.com's 2004 revenue and more than 30 times its Ebitda. Based on New Times Co. projections, the price reflects a multiple of 23 times...

Brightcove with investment

Brightcove an internet TV startup has received funding of $5.5 million in Series A from General Catalyst Partners and Accel Partners . Brightcove has an interesting vision although a bit too far-flung for me: "The new IP video startup, called Brightcove, has been formed to encourage ...

Voxify with second round

Wow seems Voxify is reall jumpstarting it's business. After a long stealth period from 2001 to 2004 Voxify a speech recognition start-up is now pushing with a second round : "Voxify, the first company to create automated Agents� for call centers with the conversational skills ...

predictions for 2005

Ok here we go with the ones for 2005 although a little late: Mobile will be an ever increasing topic. There will be less investments in the mobile gaming area but more in content delivery infrastructure (i.e. Exitgames , WUF ). Advertising Technology - Fastclick.com will not ...

matchnet.com financials

Eran has send in some doubts about the Matchnet figures used by VentureWire . And indeed they do not match (emphasis added) with the recent report from Matchnet itself. MatchNet has this Third Quarter Report with main figures such as: - Net Revenues of USD 48 million until the ...

outsourcing your headquarter

SiliconBeat links to Om Malik's story about John Flowers desire to take Kozuru to the countryside: "Some potential investors encouraged him to head back to the Valley and tee up again. But one day, as he was looking out the window of his spacious three- bedroom house, F...

it arrived!

Believe it or not but Dell was able to send me my new Axim X30 . Skype works flawlessly and even with the inbuilt mic sound quality with SkypeOut to Europe is ok. Now I'll know what my personal birthday present will be - a compatible Bluetooth Headset :-)

knowledge management

Thanks to David I had the opportunity to participate in this forum yesterday. One point that had been stressed by the presenters yesterday was that knowledge management is about whom you know and not what's in your database. The real life examples cited are well convincing. This is an ...

news from zipcar

Venturewire has good news from Zipcar : "Short-term car sharing? It's a bit of a kooky idea, but the two companies - Zipcar and Flexcar - that have been making it their business since 2000 seem to be doing more than just idling in neutral. Zipcar just announced it has reached profitabi...

Jamba in the Americas?

... Grinda founder of Aucland has been setting up Zingy here in NYC and has recently followed the Samwer brothers (whoch had a 20% stake in the company, too) and exited to for-side.com for a rumor...

the return of VC ?

If you have read this weblog for some time this NYT article comes as no surprise to you: "Four years after the Internet bubble burst, the venture- capital industry is stirring back to life. Investments by venture firms rose 22 percent in the second quarter of this year, to $5.8 billio...

Akimbo with investment

Akimbo a company that streams independent media through the net has raised US$ 12 million. Akimbo had been my obvious favorite at the Demo 2004 reports. Seems someone was faster than I :) "Startup Akimbo said Monday it has raised $12 million in series B funding for its video on demand ...

it's the service stupid!

Fast Company has a good inside into the virtues rackspace.com an ISP that turned superior service into critical mission. Lesson - if work in a market with small margins or are in danger to get commoditized make service your mission , but have an eye on the cost and it can still create as substan...

overhyping your company

Ed Sim has a great post that highlights the risk to overhype your company : "When you have a grandiose launch you set high expectations for your company. As my colleague, Ben Tanen, put it, "they would have to be the next generation phone company" to deem their execution wor...

entrepreneur of the year 2004 chosen

The entrepreneur of the year 2004 has been chosen by Ernst&Young. This years award goes to Philippines based Tony Tan Caktiong, founder of Jollibee Foods Corporation . Jollibee is the country's leading fast food chain and employs 26000 employees in 1000 branches leading to more tha...

the Jamba exit follow up

...with some friends. Still I'm curious what exactly Verisign seeks in the Jamba technology? The Samwer brothers held just 16% of the corporation by the time the company was sold. Jamba was ...

Jamba with exit

...Wow, my sincere respect goes to the Samwer brothers . Many thought their first sale of alando.de to ebay was pure luck. With Jamba they have shown it is luck and good entrepreneurship that has dr...

social software roundup

...and why this wonderful, better than original, Friendster copy had to go bust so soon. Meanwhile the Samwer brothers are happy about less competition with Myfriends . Overall it seems the social softw...

metroFi with investment

Well this idea is not exactly rocket science - some years ago several start-ups mostly unsuccessfully tried their luck in building citywide coverage with Wifi networks. Now its Metrofi trying to invest the $9 million securely from August Capital . "MetroFi builds community area networks th...

Vc for ring tones?

...might find it surprising but Jamba the baby of Germany's well-known serial entrepreneurs the Samwer brothers got an extra cash infusion for their US expansion of mostly ringt tones sale...

Intershop with round X

Intershop just completed another round of funding worth �3.8 million. What makes this troubled software company still in interesting investment? Intershop had losses of �18.6 million in 2003 and only had one positive quarter in history. Maybe it's the brand name or the tax deduction ?

Shazam with 3rd round

Shazam the mobile service company that provides a voice recognition service for mobile phones has managed a third round of Funding worth $5 million. The total amount of funding that adds up to a stunning $19.1 million. Simple ideas are the best...

ASP software

ASP has come a very long way. I have been selling ASP licenses with newtron since 1999 and it took long hours to explain the benefits of an outsourced service provider. ASP is somehow like VoIP that was there since 1996 but largely failed due to the same reasons: - lack of bandwidth - lack...

a new form of VC

While I have no idea how profitable this idea really is, it sounds like a dream job I must admit. "By her own admission, Novitsky is hooked on startups. A 42-year-old tech-industry veteran, she craves the passion and excitement that come with building a new company -- even if that means doi...

MIT's blog survey

MIT has undertaken a blog survey : " Formerly viewed as a marginal activity restricted to the technically savvy, blogging is slowly becoming more of a mainstream phenomenon on the Internet. Thanks to much media hype and some high profile blog sites, these online journals have captured the pu...

outsourcing for startups?

Fast Company also covers recent developments in outsourcing. What's surprising for me is that outsourcing is presented as a tool to make any company more competitive. Outsourcing can only produce results in certain environments and mostly it does not deploy many cost savings for small scale st...

emirates set for expansion

Emirates the truly exceptional airline is according to this article bullish for expansion. Emirates especially targets economy travelers going to Asia from Europe or from the Middle East to North America. It plans to use the new A380 to reach a substantial lower cost basis. Whenever I can...

the Samwer brothers

...The FAZ has a nice piece on the Samwer brothers , who created alando.de the predecessor of ebay.de and Jamba. Jamba started in 2000 with the goal to partcipate in the mobile content business. The ...

knowledge management

M-E-X Blog links to an very comprehensive guide to Knowledge Management. This great site tries to shed light into the group of solutions that has suffered from the reckless usage of KM as a buzzword in boom times. It even tries a definition: "Succinctly put, KM is the process through whic...

nanotech and VC

CNET has an good roundup of growing interest of VCs into nanotech. "Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the influential Silicon Valley investment firm that has generally steered clear of nanotechnology, is also reticent. According to some reports, Kleiner has joined a round of financing t...

IM security

Akonix a provider of enterprise security tools has finalized a second round with $11 million. Nothing special you might say, but Akonix has very innovative product, a security tool managing instant messaging traffic. IM has become a much liked application for office workers but also a nuisa...

movie IPO

Rob is reporting about one of the first IPOs for movies prior to producing. Civilian has developed a marketplace for movies. I think it's really time that the industry comes up with alternate financing alternatives. Ultimately it would be an alternative to the actual distribution model. What...

zipcar with funding

Zipcar has closed a first stage of series C with $2 million. Zipcar is a clever model for car sharing. Car sharing is supported heavily by many European cities . It is almost ubiquitous in Germany and Switzerland. Yet service often lacks perfection. Zipcar might have the chance to offer a pr...

investment exchanges

The appeal of the internet to bring down transaction costs has finally reached the VC market. I had written something about M&A exchanges some time back, which all suffer from very small liquidity. Now I got a promotional mail through BAND from "EuroVence -- The European Marke...

pick your favorite

BrainsToVentures (b-to-v) had invited a row of companies two weeks ago for an Investors Circle in Munich . Several interesting (and some not so interesting) companies presented their business model. So you can pick your favorite: Gourmondo GmbH - a gastronomic specialties online grocery...

the P2P potential

We all have heard the promise of P2P echoing trough media announcements since Napster. Now business plans already adopted an inflationary use of P2P. It seems like C2C has just been changed by a letter. However the NYT finds another analogy: "The current fight over peer-to-peer techno...

Globalizing e-business

Idiom recently run through the ticker receiving USD 6 mio in new funding. It seems to have a found a pretty nice niche. Idiom provides "Advanced editing and translation technology to maximize productivity and ...seamless asset integration to access and integrate with enterprise content...

displays out of thin air?

Wired has a nice article about two companies producing new types of projection methods. IO2Technology impresses viewers with an image projected on vaporized water. The nice thing it track movements of the viewer and allows screen control with your hands - a bit like "Minority Report". ...

P2P online betting

Mario has brought the P2P online betting market to my attention. He gives more inside about business figures for the biggest provider of these kinds of online betting betfair.com based in UK. P2P online betting is once again a perfect model for bringing down transaction costs via the Int...

how gator works ...

I was following up the recent decision about Gator and WhenU pointing out that online pop-up ads do not violate trademark laws. What I found is a nice research from Ben Edelman . He has tried to uncover the 'secret system' that determines how the ads get customized. According to Ga...

outsourcing to India

This time the Economist has taken up my most favorite topic . It displays some of the current issues to deal with. Visa regulations and political interferences will probably not last long. More difficult are the attrition rates: "Gartner, a consultancy, believes this has reached around ...

outsourcing to India

Oracle has caught some attention with the announcement to expand operations in India. Oracle will mainly staff the Hyderabad facilities and plans to employ 6.000 software workers in India. Oracle's decision testifies India's rank as a place for software companies. Microsoft and SAP ...