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Startupbootcamp Open Pitchday Cologne
Today, which marks my first day no longer at Adcloud, I started off with being a mentor at Startupbootcamp Open Pitch Day Cologne. What a great way to start off and thank you Alex for having me. Also...
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Creative.Arbeit in Cologne – The future of work
Currently sitting in a congress about the future of work, a subject that is dear to my heart, called Creative.Arbeit (where Arbeit = Work ). Very interesting discussions happening and thoughts in the...
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A great new Conference with the Mannheim Forum
Last week I was invited to the Mannheim Forum and boy is that university beautiful, you have to give that to them. I wonderfully arrived in style directly on the big square in front of the palace that...
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The Real Life Gunter Dueck
On the 18th of March I was fortunate enough to see Gunter Dueck aka wilddueck at an event organised by Startplatz. Thanks a lot for Lorenz and Matthias for inviting me! I actually have to give it to...
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My Brain Hurts
Yep, it does and I thought I’d sum up a little bit how my day was. It all started slowly and gently with a sushi lunch meeting with Jörg vom Capnamic on wednesday. Then came a family thursday that was...
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The Bitcoin Currency Ecosystem
A much more general use of the word currency is anything that is used in any circumstances, as a medium of exchange. In this use, “currency” is a synonym for the concept of money. This comes from...
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A Bitcoin Follow Up
I wrote my post before the major run up and there has been huge coverage in the last 36 hours, both good and bad. The currency popped 50% in 48 hours and that creates interest. Here are a few items....
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The Power of Google Fiber
Great post online at RWW called “The Genius of Google Fiber” and I agree on many fronts but wanted to elaborate on the advertising angel. It is clear by now that with everyone who uses the internet,...
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Working Remote and Distributed or Not
Having left Adcloud and thinking about what to do next, the main focus at the moment is thinking about the setup of that next thing. One obvious part of that is where it will be and actually, does it...
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Book Review: The Connected Company by Dave Gray
Currently thinking about what the company of the future looks like, I loved reading Dave Gray’s book The Connected Company. It is an amazing read and I would like to give you a little bit of a summary...
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The Business Design Summit in Berlin
Not long ago, mid April, there was the Business Design Summit in Berlin but sadly I only learned about it from Holger Nils Pohl after the fact. Of course, he was there for his chops in graphic...
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The last year in advertising
Ok, I am on a role. Followed by ads for shoes I have already bought, I have lots of tabs open for articles in my advertising folder on Instapaper and I wanted to see what is in there and write about...
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A small collection of big data articles
The clearing of the Instapaper continues this time about big data. Let’s start with the old ones with sequoia and accel pumping $70 million into a Big Data Startup. The Market for Big Data heated up....
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How to hire great people
For the above subject, Google always were the light posts out there, especially with their hard questions, brainteasers and numbers driven approach. Now Google admits that the brain teasers really...
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How to Manager Your Bitcoin from Germany
I thought this might be on the mind of some, so I should just write a short post about it. You might want to choose Bitcoin.de as your exchange, but they are only on their way to be a real exchange. At...
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My Apps of 2013
There are lots of lists out there and ideas for the future. But by now I am old enough to know that I am as clueless as the next guy to know the future. What I do know is what I used the last year and...
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Book Review: The Year without Pants by Scott Berkun
First off, it’s a great book. In The Year without Pants Scott Berkun gives a good view into the daily workings and culture of Automattic, the company WordPress among others. Here are some of my...
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Joining an Angellist Syndicate from Germany (or even Europe)
If you are from Europe and want to invest in an AngelList Syndicate, here is my experience getting the required paperwork finished. But first, some background for those who don’t know the syndicates...
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Another Way to do AngelList Syndicates
After having solved the tax issues with joining AngelList Syndicates from Europe, I have joined several of them and it has been an interesting ride that will surely add another post about in the...
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AngelList Syndicates Half a Year Later
There we go. It has been 6 months since I started to join AngelList syndicates. It has been a wild ride ever since, with a few hiccups but an amazing AngelList team to get them solved. Probably being...
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