December 2011
1 post
Wunderlist for Blackberry - The Beta Is Here!
wunderlist:
The Wunderlist beta for Blackberry is here and we’re looking for some of you to help us test it! If you’re interested in being one of the first to try it out, please send an email to beta-blackberry@6wunderkinder.com.
If you come across any bugs, please send them to feedback-blackberry@6wunderkinder.com. Don’t forget to specify which device you’re using and the OS version!
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
Craftler - Turntable manouvres in the mix
Don’t know how I missed this one for 11 years:
“Craftler - Turntable manouvres in the mix” by the Waxolutionists and Alex is my Bro is one heck of a record. I somewhat prefer the second mix more (the one by Alex is my Bro), but both are finest art…
Here you can find another short but pretty precise review (in German):
http://de-bug.de/reviews/10491.html
September 2011
2 posts
The better entrepreneur?
Over the recent weeks and months I’ve noticed a growing rift within the “entrepreneurial community”. There is a lot of debate (and sometimes even hate) which way of setting up and growing a startup is the “right” or sometimes even “pure” form.
On the one hand there is the copycat vs. (true) innovator discussion, on the other hand there seems to be an...
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Continuations: Google: Owning versus Organizing →
continuations:
When Larry Page became CEO, I set out my hopes for how Google might evolve its role in the Internet marketplace under his leadership. In particular, I was hoping that Larry would be:
Supporting independent third party services instead of either trying to acquire them or competing head on…
Great read…
August 2011
1 post
@chrija's "What we look for in early-stage SaaS...
I really liked Christoph Janz’s blog post on what he looks for in Saas startups (see here) since he pretty much describes what I do as well.
Two additional things I look for is “Customer Lifetime Costs” and “Customer Lock-in”.
Whereas costs of service delivery are close to 0 with regards to IT spendings, their seem to be certain product types and customer groups...
July 2011
4 posts
Austrian throwback week...
Feels like it is Austian Throwback Week since I am listening to a lot of Waxolutionists today… so here another dope record from the 90s: “The Smart Blip Experience” by Waxolutionists
werwaswiewannwo
Another one of my all-time favorite records: “werwaswannwiewo” by Total Chaos. And another one of these “wow, I am old” moments, since it was released 13 years ago.
“The reason I don’t have a plan is because if I have a plan I’m limited to...”
– Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker
Great profile of Sheryl Sandberg in The New Yorker (via david-noel)
Wow, simple but powerful.
Fred Wilson on How Much Money To Raise →
June 2011
9 posts
Thank You for Over 2 Million Downloads!
wunderlist:
Over 20 Million tasks created. #1 downloaded app in several Mac App Stores across the globe. Over 2 million downloads. What more can we ask for?
“What’s going on with the cloud is completely and totally valid. We’ve spent the...”
– Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley Explains How Twitter Will Rule The World And Why Groupon Won’t (via fred-wilson)
Wow, that pretty much sums it up.
Christian Musfeldt: Finanzierungsrunden in... →
Teile die Einschätzung und die Werte…. sehr gute und schnelle Übersicht.
Wunderlist on the Mac App Store. Awesome!
wunderlist:
After months of improvements, fixes and tears (ok, maybe not the last part) we’re finally on the Mac App Store. We know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath, and we’re confident and proud enough to have you grab a copy from Apple’s one-stop app shop right now. For our official word on this awesomeness, please check out our company blog. If you’d like to dive right into the fun,...
WatchSaw this presentation from Florian Heineman (Rocket Internet) live at Next11 and was really impressed. Great speech from beginning to end and I was kind of surprised to find it online today (via exciting Commerce).
Lots of interesting information on how Rocket / Zalando management team manages growth at Zalando…
WatchLive-Stream zum HTGF Family Day 2011!
Open jobs in our portfolio - check out the link.... →
May 2011
9 posts
The "mobile first" discussion is outdatet.
Over the weekend I ran into two posts by Fred Wilson and Paul Jozefak discussing whether “mobile first” has finally arrived or actually will.
I personally think it’s an outdatet dicussion that makes limited sense. To me it is not a differentiation between “mobile” and “stationary” - but much more between “online” and...
Paperless...
Yesterday - after looking into my work bag and not finding a single piece of paper - I realized that I have changed my working habbits to become almost completely paperless. I used to carry around a writing pad and various documents with me all the time, but nowadays all that’s in my bag is my laptop and my Kindle. Everything (documents, data, contacts, appointments) I need I can...
Annoying your customers...
T-Mobile SMS about speed data transfer rate reduction pisses me off every month.
I know its in the contract, but still a really weird service philosophy. Wondering how much they actually save from those reductions compared to the number (and resulting damage) of pissed of customers…
Tumblr is turning into twitter with actual content. I like that…
Being "social" ...
… in itself does not solve a problem for your users. It’s a characteristic, not a use case or feature. It can catalyze your adoption and success - but if your core functionality is broken, engineering social characteristings in a product will not help you win the game.
See the 6Wunderkinder on TV
dennisschneider:
The 6Wunderkinder were on TV yesterday. The Berlin based TV station ‘rbb’ made a report about mobile applications for the household. You can see me installing Wunderlist on Android ;)
Find the video here
The "as a service" misbelief.
There seems to be a common assumption (with founders in Germany) that just offering any form of software “as a service” will result in customers ditching their old products and transfer to “this new thing” in masses .
Seriously - this is not gonna happen… and there are good reasons for this:
“The current state works”: There is nothing wrong with...
April 2011
8 posts
Like vampires and light....
The more you look at it, the more you get the impression that copycats (and their bankrollers) stay away from Tech topics (even really good ones) just like vampires avoid the light.
Kind of wondering why that is the case…
Lack of experienced / really skilled Tech teams?
Lack of understanding for such topics from the bankrollers?
Fear of too long times to develop and rollout topics?
“… I was also there when we had the last bubble in 99/2000 …”
– heard this statement in various talks over the last couple of weeks.
“You don’t have to be a horse to be a jockey.”
– Heard this quote from Arrigo Sacchi during yesterday’s football live-cast and simply love it. So true.
Another good read: "Mastering the VC Game" →
I just completed this book today and overall it is quite helpful. Lots of nice anecdotes and some good advice both for entrepreneurs / founders as well as folks from the VC side.
Some sections are a little to long (but hey, the guy had to write a full book) but overall it’s worth its money…
March 2011
3 posts
Good read: "The Extra 2%" →
It’s Opening Day in MLB … and here is my corresponding book tip:
“The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First” (Jonah Keri)
Really good read on the history of the Tampa Bay Rays and the strategies that lead to their sudden success. Valuable read and some stuff to learn for most kinds of businesses….
Btw, the author has...
Checkliste Mitarbeiterbeteiligung von Christian →
Gute Checkliste / Einführung zum Thema Mitarbeiterbeteiligung in Startups…
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Some sick numbers... →
… about the growth (ok, explosion) of Twitter. However, my favorite number is the smallest one in the entire post:
8 - Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008
Thats more than 1.5 years after the first tweet was sent. To me that shows that the team (and investors) took their time to study and understand what they had and started scaling later on. Todays headcount is 400….