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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
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Video: New Offices of cyon
A week ago, my friends over at cyon moved to their new offices. Take a look:
Link: sevenload.com
Good job, Dave! It looks great!
Great News: Ecato partners with Shopping.com
I love it when I can share good news concerning my friends. Today’s good news is that Ecato partners with Shopping.com. CBS told me about the negatiations about 6 months ago and I’m very happy that they closed the deal successfully. This will bring Ecato to the next level and maybe even opens an exit-door for the future ;-).
Seesmic raised $6 Mio from Niklas and Others
I’ve just watched Loic’s Stanford speech:
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTiIUC3aaM[/flash]
Learnings:
# Loic raised $6 mio from Niklas Zennstrom and 10 others (like Mike Arrington, Reid Hoffman etc.). He wanted to only raise money from entrepreneurs and not from VCs, because he has no businessplan and doesn’t know his revenue model yet –> Entrepreneurs understand that, VCs don’t ;-).
# Loic explains his reasons of moving to the Silicon Valley, especially the aspect Europe vs. US. For European Entrepreneurs this is very interesting. Basically it’s about globalization and a much bigger home market. Other reasons are different trust-culture, access to capital etc.
Update from Loic:
How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million
New Trigami-Products
See also our Press Release (pimped by Supertext ;-)
Exsila: Migros-Magazine Coverage Crashes Servers
GREAT news for Exsila:
1. Coverage in Migros-Magazine (reach: 2.3 mio readers) crashes servers. Thats the bad news. The good news is: A couple of thousand of new members in one week (now 28’000 and counting).
2. Exsila merges with Tradefarm and gains another 1000 users.
3. Coverage in CASHdaily Podcast. Rouven said in the video that the goal is to reach 100’000 members until the end of 2008.
This makes Exsila to probably the hottest and fastest-growing Web-Startup in Switzerland. Is anyone hotter in the moment?
Contrats to Jonas and Roland!
Contrats to the great coverage in 20min!
MemberYou seems to have found his niche: Organizing professional (poker) events – not online, but offline in the real world! The last poker event was the biggest event that was ever organized in the Basel area outside of the Grand Casino Basel (according to 20min). I think that’s great and Jonas & Roland should follow this path (since it’s rather difficult those days to be just another social network). You should organize more & bigger events, make people happy, charge money and get great coverage in the press like this time. And use the online platform to make the organization of events efficient and to have a community for all the participants of all the real-world events.
This was no coincidence. Organizing events is a passion of those guys, especially Jonas. Recently he relaunched his pesonal event-tools network eventsuche.ch (which helps you get a location, catering, entertainment and equipment). These are great services and you should definitely think of Jonas when you’re organizing your next event in Switzerland.
Keep pushing guys, you’re on your way!
My Learnings in 2007
- The biggest impact on my professional life had David Allen with Getting Things Done. In the past 2 months, I implemented this concept both in my personal and my professional life and am very happy with it. My mailboxes are constantly down to zero (although my @Action folder still has around 10 mails left) and all my "stuff" was processed into projects and references. I will continue to use and refine my individual version of this concept in 2008. There is still a lot of work to be done to be more efficient, but the foundation has definitely been laid in 2007.
- I learned plenty of "entrepreneurial" things in Founders At Work. It’s an excellent book full of interviews with great people that I can recommend to every entrepreneur. There are hundreds of lessons in this book that you can learn from, but probably the most important lesson was: You have to do it your own way :-). The other learning was: Inspiration is great for motivation! Sometimes when I felt a little depressed and overwhelmed I read an interview in this book and it helped me a lot :-).
- Learnings of (1) and (2): Books enrich your life in a great way. So don’t forget to have one or two books with you when you’re going to be on the train or a plane. I learn about most of the books that I read from blogs or magazines. I’m also looking forward to YOUR book recommendations – please leave a comment :-)
- I fell in love with microblogging. I’ve just made a backup of all my 260 twitter-messages and this filled 11 full pages in my word-file (it’s also a great summary of the places I’ve been and the things I’ve done in 2007). Also make sure to subscribe to my twitter RSS-feed or to the free SMS-notifications. I mainly use twitter when I’m traveling, so please call or SMS me when I’m in your neighborhood.
- Facebook surprised me. I’m not spending to much time on it since the business value is not very high yet, but it definitely has the potential to become my #1 social network. My #1 network is still XING, since my main interest right now is business.
- Web Services can have a big impact on the personal life. I never watched more DVDs than in 2007, mainly because Exsila made it so easy and cheap.
- I should have been more hospitable to some of my guests. Sometimes I was a little too self-involved. A big sorry & mea culpa!
- I learned a LOT about Silicon Valley from Robert and my first trip. I learned that I don’t like 7th street/market street in SF, I learned that Palo Alto and Stanford are WONDERFUL and that it’s everywhere the same story: You have to FIGHT for it – no matter what it is!
- I fell in love with Kiva and the idea of micro-investments.
- I can’t keep up with all my RSS feeds. Its impossible! I accepted it. I’m no full-time blogger and I made my peace with it. I also apologize that this blog isn’t as frequently updated as it used to be. Same story here: I’m no full-time blogger and I made my peace with it.
