Technopreneurs out there! The European Tech Tour Association (ETT), luxury watchmakerAudemars Piguet & Cie, and Weber Shandwick Worldwide, are inaugurating “The Changing Times Award” to name the European Technology Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.
The award will be presented to the European Technology Entrepreneur whose private company has had the biggest impact, on the largest [...]
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European Technology Entrepreneur Award
November 10, 2006New Energy Forum – Looking for exciting presenters!
November 10, 2006If you are into cleantech and as excited about this new emerging sector like myself, there is an interesting event coming up in December. E-Unlimited is organizing the New Energy Forum, taking place on December 5th, as part of the European Venture Summit (includes a Tech and Bio-track for those of you not so much [...]
1st TrendSlam a great success!
October 20, 2006Congratulations to Monty and his team for organizing the 1st TrendSlam in history. A well attended event of top media experts and entrepreneurs was challenged to present in exactly 5min their ideas, trends and thoughts about the future in “new media”. Top speakers at this well attended event were i.e. Felix Petersen from Plazes, Anina and [...]
Interesting conferences / events
August 31, 2006Two very interesting conferences for entrepreneurs, start-ups and investors are coming up this fall:
Alpha Summit (Nov 29 – Dec 1 2006): In its third year and initiated by Munich Network, this has become one of the top-events for entrepreneurs. Top speakers like Orna Berry have already announced their participation. This is a must-attend event – [...]
Congratulations to the RedHerring 2006 Winners – Germany coming in only at 4th place!
May 10, 2006Congratulations to the winners of the RedHerring 2006 contest. Some remarkable winners worth mentioning from Germany are (in no particular order): Actionality, OpenBC and Spreadshirt. A positive surprise from a German side is clearly PV Crystalox Solar, examplifying Germany's competitive edge in the cleantech space. Other European companies who made it on the list this [...]
RedHerring 100 Event – Recap
May 10, 2006I am just on my way back from the RedHerring 100 conference, which took place in Paris this week. Definitely one of the top events here in Europe, where you can meet the best VCs and start-ups in Europe. 100 “start-ups” from technology and life sciences got awarded there and had the chance to pitch [...]
Deutsches Eigenkapitalforum – A great place to pitch your story!
April 21, 2006On April 26th / 27th, the "Deutsches Eigenkapitalforum" (DEF) will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with another great conference. Taking place in Berlin this time, the DEF has become one of the most important platforms for VCs and start-ups to network and to pitch their business cases to each other here in Germany.
Takeaway: DEF provides [...]
Search and Online Advertising – Big market ahead
March 24, 2006Search and Advertising are becoming more and more important. Nielsen/ Netratings recently posted that “Online search conducted across approximately 60 search engines in the
U.S. rose 39 percent year-over-year in January 2006 from four billion searches to nearly 5.7 billion, the highest number of online searches to date. Nielsen/NetRatings reported last month that online search in [...]
Is eBay a market place for successful start-ups?
March 15, 2006Various people asked me whether eBay is an interesting starting ground for start-ups. I have been thinking about this question for quite some time now. On the one hand, eBay is clearly a huge market place. eBay has recently opened its APIs to third-party developers in order to spur innovation in terms of sw and [...]
Blogging in the Venture Capital World!
March 14, 2006If you are interested to know, who else is blogging from a VC perspective, have a look at a recently compiled list of VC related blogs at BloggingVC. Thanks Christian for putting this up. Let’s see how fast the list grows!
