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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

How to get out of London without Heathrow? #cab #train #ferry #christmas at home

We made it in 36 hours from London to Berlin, starting at Monday 7am.
So if you still stuck in London without a chance of a flight, you maybe can make it home for christmas like we did.
Here comes how we did it and what else we found out:
- First of all forget your luagge and bags at Heathrow and tell your destination airport your numbers - they will send it to you in the next days (hopefully ;).
- Second: Even if we had booked another flight out of London, we decided for an alternative which we could control and not are totally dependend on the weather or Heathrow airport

London
We decided to leave London via cab, after we saw the chaos at the kings cross train station. There was a huge waiting line on the street from people with tickets for the eurostar. But now they even dont sell tickets anymore. Our plan was to get on a train to dover with: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
The cab was 200 pounds to dover, but train tickets for family of 5 would have cost about 140, so it was a good compromise and a lot of fun with the cab driver who drove us to his favourite breakfest place "Bernis Sandwich Bar" in London.

Dover
The ferry to calais was easy, after we realized we have to buy the tickets at the door, because they dont allow foot passengers to buy tickets online: http://www.poferries.com/
Tickets for 5 cost us 90 pounds

Calais
Here comes the hardest part!
We got luck and catched one of the last rental cars from europcar, but dont ask for the price, it's "highway robbery". But if you would like to try, here is the number:  +49 1805800
Because of the price, we change the car next day in Duesseldorf with sixt +49 1805252525
We also found a second way to get out, via cab to one of the next bigger citys and then get a rental car there, but meanwhile you probably have to go abou 100km, because its hard to find a
An alternative to get out is by train http://www.raileurope.co.uk/

Duesseldorf
From here it's a childsplay, beside the weather and road conditions. We stopped one night in Belgien (Hasselts) they have a nice christmas market and good hotels.

We which you good luck and merry christmas 2010


Thanks to this people and websites, who helped us to get home:
@mdbergfeld  - He is an TwitterAngel, he tweeted his experience and responded to my tweets.
Hausecke - He was my realtime researcher and road advisor.
Berne - He helped me to book hotel and flight.
http://www.seat61.com/ - great travel website
http://search.twitter.com/ - real time news



Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Venture Summit Silicon Valley 2010 - summary part1 #alwayson #daily notes

@TimDraper
The world needs free markets.
Become an entrepreneur because private sector is doing a better job
then any public.

VC boom is starting again. (Cycle)
Technology innovation continuos to grow exponentialy.
VC future trends: Global, networked, clean, liquid
IPOs coming back
Many good deals don't get funding

Revolutions change existing business models and invent new ones, like:
-Amazon - book store
-Hotmail - post office
-Google - broadcaster
-Skype - telephone

Entrepreneurs are heros, they
-Create jobs
-Make our lifes better
-Take risks


#VC titans - panel
@timDraper - draper fisher
@toddChaffee - institutional ventur partner (twitter, zynga)
@johnSimon - general catalyst partners
Later stage is over heated and seed has a hard time right now.
Invest in teams and disruptive models insted of sectors
Look for monopolies because they get lazy and find disruptive models
(examples: finance industry, databases like oracle, transportation,
education)

#Closing the capital gap - panel
Are angels and seed funds more attractive then VCs?
Robert ackerman
Howard hartenbaum
Nils johnson - angel (wepay,
Karl jacob - angel
There was a time Ron Conway was the only angel, today there is a
industry of angels or maybe an Angel bubble.
To grow a company you still need money.
Angels invest their own money and take high risks, VCs not.
Angels who get succesful become often VCs.
VCs ware suites and jackets, angels not (at least at this panel ;)
Airbnb - biggest hotel in the world without having a hotel

@joeSchoendorf - accel partner
990 open jobs are listed from all portfolio companies on accel
website, because of the bad education system in the US, they can't
find qualified talents.

#SAP business by design
Saas erp platform

#traditional exits vs alternatives liquidity - panel
SecondMarket sees a 10b dollar market next 3 years

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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie | Friedrichstraße 50 | 10117 Berlin

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Friday, December 10, 2010

mobile tsunami 2/2 #sdfmobile #daily notes

#Mobile Investment landscape
Mobile, cloud, game are the hot topics
Stay away of apps, apple will provide themself

#mobile my world
@Susan welsh de grimaldo, Strategy analyst
Why user love iphone? UX, apps, big display
How to get to WOW? Design, personalized, viral
Where is the innovation? Keep it simple that people can understand it.

#industry perspective
Panel: Nokia, orange, alcatel, microsoft
Accu time and band wight

#where is the money in mobile?
Panel
@shopkick aaron emigh
@Mobclix founder vishal gurbuxani - monetize apps
@Tapjoy founder ben lewis - adnetwork
Mobile adds become more relevant and make money
Virtual currencies generating high conversions
Payment methods outside of iphone are needed
Analytics for mobile apps: google analytics,


#globumbus
Search/offer
Company: work equity
Worker: money work
Investor: equity money

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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie | Friedrichstraße 50 | 10117 Berlin

Follow me:
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The Mobile Internet Tsunami summary 1/2 #sdforum #sdfmobile #daily notes


@GuyKawasaki - opening keynote
1) Achieve Likability
- smile
- dress for a tie - under-dressing: dont respect you
- shake hands right

2) Trustworthieness
- knowledge competence
- trust others (like companies: norstrom, amazon, zappos)
- default to YES > if somebody ask you something, say yes

HOW TO PRESENT?
Make it DICEE (deep, intelligent, complete, empowering, elegant)
Make it short, sweet and swallowable.
Conduct a premortem product (assume if our product will fail, how xould we prevent this?)
Tell a story
Plant many seeds (address also lonlyboy15 on twitter, because you never now who will support you and not cnn)
Illustrate saliebt points (argument on numbers, everybody understands)
Provide social proof
Find a bright spot
Enchant all the influencers
Dont use money
Invoke reciprocation
Build an ecosystem - and dont try to do everything by yourself (appstores, 3rd party...)
Customize the introduction - 
Sell your dream - forget feature fuckin
10slides 20 30

How to enchant your boos?
Drop everything else if he ask you to do something
Prototype fast (show 
Deliver bad news early (

Enchant employees
- provide MAP (mastery: come to me and you will learn xy, autonomy: no micro management, purpose: sell a vision)
- Empower action ( i trust you, 
- Judge your results and not their 

10 use technology
- remove speed bumps (like captchers)
- provide value (information, insights, assistance)
- engage with social media: (fast, many (to all), often)

Be a mensch

slides made by: anafxfz.com
get a copy of the slides, email gina@garage.com



@getJar - 
Independent cross platform appstore
no listing fee, no transaction fees, only promotion fees like adwords

@kapow
platform wich makes your data available without an api

@cogan
aggregating data of events


Thursday, December 9, 2010

The future of work #my Daily notes #networkconf #humancloud #crowdsourcing

The Future of Work
#ElasticWorkforce
#Humancloud
#Realtime collaboration
#crowdsourcing

#salesforce ceo @benioff
Your business is tweeting you.
5000 employees
Chatterlytics: shows transparent "who earns what"
Every employee can earn the same like a VP
Flat world, flat company

#vidyo
Video conferencing system with coomodity hardware

#human cloud
@Cloudcrowd axel edelstein
@Mturk sharon chiarella
@Utest doron reuveni
@Liveops maynard webb

Crowd mechanics like game mechanics brings fun
Real Names or anonymous? Controversy
Offshore comes back onshore, world is flat.
Don't bet on regions or countries in crowdsourcing

#the cloud
@Netsuite ceo zach nelson
B2b cloud apps
200m sales rev
We run the apps and eliminate the app costs for our customers.

#mobile workforce report
Bit.ly/9hEHvw

#self serve, simple social inside
New saas solutions
@sliderocket ceo chuck dietrich
@central desktop ceo isaac garcia
@box.net ceo aaron levie
@huddle founder andy mcloughlin
The technology is there with all the systems from amazon ws, google
apps, salesforce appexchange, etc. Now its time to change the
companies and people to use them.

#HR in the web
@rypple ceo daniel debow
@trinet MD philip korn
Many companies don't allow facebook, onle the smart ones try to get
ahead of it, because it will happen anyway.
Netflix dosnt have a vacation policy. You'll measured on your results.

#radical collaborator
Working at cisco san jose, living in carmel
Email, Cellphone, Webex, Cisco Quad collaboration tool,
Asynchronus voice and video sharing

#xobni
Inbox app and address book


#globumbus
The end of fix and fulltime.
Company as a service
my company

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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie | Friedrichstraße 50 | 10117 Berlin

Follow me:
http://twitter.com/ThomasHessler
http://www.facebook.com/thomashessler
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Blog: www.thomashessler.com

Reach me:
email, skype, msn, Gtalk: thomashessler
Global mobile: +1 415 335 9843 (google voice)
DE mobile: +49 173 6111884

Meet me:
events: http://plancast.com/thomashessler
shedule: http://tungle.me/thomashessler

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