Like a lot of my friends, I am turning 30 later this year. The following seemed appropriate: <3
Source. I derive so much joy from xkcd, it’s unnatural. Thanks, anonymous geeky person behind that site.
So for anyone questioning the value of VC’s, here’s a late night post with an exquisite freebie. Were you looking for a fail-safe name for your new 2.0 venture? Look no further:
$whois tupointo.com
$No match for “TUPOINTO.COM”.
Yes, ladies and gents, two point oh dot com is actually free. You’ll get invited by every VC on the [...]
Our portfolio company Seatwave (UK, DE) got a great full-page article in Internet World Business, Germany’s largest internet biz weekly.
Here is an excerpt of the illustration. Click here for the PDF (and remember to subscribe to Internet World Business if you like the article - it’s a must-read for German internet professionals).
I grew up with gangsta rap and I turned out ok (imho). NWA was a bit before my time, really. Dre’s Chronic was the first gangsta rap music cassette (!) I bought, followed quickly by the first Snoop Dogg album. Both are classics and I still listen to them once every few months.
The following is [...]
One of the first investments I participated in at Atlas is Zoopla, an online real estate site that provides free UK property valuations based on historic transactions, neighbourhood price indices and a plethora of other factors. Today, it emerges out of stealth mode and into something resembling very-much-production-beta. Given the experienced management team led by [...]
For the last three years, every January I take a large position in Apple prior to Jobs keynote at Macworld and every year, I have made a healthy few percent (10% two years ago).
Somehow I feel more jittery about this strategy this year. The keynote leaked last night and hence the news might already be [...]
Deezer, the European Imeem, has launched its new beta platform and now has track permalinks (e.g. “Take Her to the Music Store” by From Autumn to Ashes - yes, you may call me emo).
From Autumn to Ashes doing the Lennon/Yoko Ono thing. LOL.
Deezer still has a ghastly flash interface (you are breaking fundamental web conventions [...]
Good story on the iPhone gestation by Fred Vogelstein in WIRED. Fanboi, him, too: I don’t see the iPhone shifting industry power just yet.
That said, AAPL is a clear long ahead of the MacWorld announcement.
…for about 24 hours:
Yes, of course this was taken down ASAP. Nice try, though. Props to Jung von Matt, the German ad agency behind it.
digg_url = ‘www.maxniederhofer.com/2008/01/10/how-to-get-google-adwords-ctrs-over-45/’;
(SWF pulled from here).
UPDATE 3 (23 Jan 08, 1558 GMT): We are arranging a call with their CEO. Very much looking forward to finding out more. This post is offline for now.
UPDATE 2 (10 Jan 08, 1028 GMT): I spoke at length to Lucy George, Badoo Director Communications, who gave me some interesting insights on the company. She [...]
