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Thursday, March 31, 2011

iExpo winner

#keynote
@bessemer venture partner
@DavidCowan
Investment criterias:
Businee model: like Subscription and Virtual currencies
Distribution: need to be high viral
If you need to Pay for user: need double return
If ecommerce:
Linkedin, skype and teamviewer are best models because of: virality
and productivity increase as value prop

#Winners

3. @superCompare
Price comparison for local retailers
Fill a virtual basket
Stores will offer coupons and get
User save 1000 a year

2. @tapmap
Retailers can bring their inventory lists to an api online
They connect to erp systems
Customers like walmart, cvs, expert etc

1. @accedo
IPTV

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CEO | Founder | Angel Investor

Globumbus
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iExpo 2/2 pitches #daily notes #Globumbus

My votes out of 4 points

#Pitches

@OKeez 3/4
Open platform for remotecontrols on any touch pads
Invest: 2m 500k

@justInMind 2/4
Software prototyping platform
Testing
#saas
Invest: 2m sales marketing, us entry

@blueSource 2/4
Mobilepocket for all your plastic cards
>Hard b2b sales

@bestiario 2/4
System for Data analytics

@digital samba 2/4
Video conf and virtual classroom for #education
Onsync
>Another one

@gipht me 3/4
Virtual goods platform
Invest: 700k seed

@inbenta
Search to reduce
Barcelona
Invest: 5

@minteos
Sensors

@kodeid 1/4
Mobile wallet
>How to distribute?
Invest: 1.5m

@ayannah

@wondershake 2/4
Tokyo japan
Local social mobile Dating app

@capseo 4/4
Crowdsourcing meets marketing
Webinfluence
Matching tasks with skills
230k revenue
20 countries 10 languages
Invest 1.2 series A

@nicePeopleAtWork 1/4
Video on demand stream

@moglue 1/4
Create play share
Platform to create interactive ebooks

@zapon 1/4
Mobile app lo share events
Invest 1.5

@superCompare 2/4
Price comparison
Fill a virtual basket and they tell you where to go and buy
Local retail

@talkwheel 2/4
New communication tool


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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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iExpo 1/2 at plugandplay 34 pitches from 17 countries #daily notes #

My votes out of 4

#keynote saeed amir
Israel companies have 20 people in silicon valley and 200 in israel
and the go public on nasdaq for 3 times of value


Pitches

@paymentEvolution 3/4
Payroll as a service
>Value for every company
#saas

@mobibucks
?

@lendfriend 4/4
Facebook app for lending to family and friends
#crowdfunding
#crowdsourcing
2m loans
100loans
200 user
Social leverage, credit history
Invest: seed round

@webservius 3/4
Marketplace for Valuable structal data
Customers:
Investing Looking series a for sales

@cellKnight 2/4
#saas monitoring mobile bills

@posterita 2/4
#saas Retail management solution
Inventory, employees
Invest: 500k seed

@bitmenu 3/4
#crowdsourced Itunes for facebook
Invest: seed

@connectionPoint 2/4
Fundrazr app on facebook for fundraising
Nonprofit, political, etc campaigns

@createlyXT
Understand data
#saas Drag and drop data analyzis platform
Invest: A round 1.2

@agasa 2/4
Internet of things #iot
Sensors for parking lots for electrical cars

@accedo 1/4
Multi platform apps for TV
Profitable 8m in 2010

@teltub 1/4
Phone services

@ipoint 1/4
3d without glasses algorithm

@xaopio 3/4
Synchronize your enterprise data into the Cloud
Sap to evernot/sharepoint etc
Want to launch a saas model
Profitable since 2005

@tapmap 2/4
Google maps inside stores
Price comparison via rfc

@caffein 3/4
P2p group video chat
Leverage facebook and twitter
Web browser, no software
See a twwet and join a group video chat
3m users
Invest 1m angel

@wishponp 2/4
Social media for local sme stores
#saas


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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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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Tax experts for German and US tax in Silicon Valley

A couple days ago I asked via twitter, if somebody can give me a recommendation.
Here is what I got from different resources:

Iris Leichtweiss (German)
Sunnyvale

Crista Lucey
San Francisco
www.Spottluceywall-cpas.com



Jochen Waldvogel (German)
Fresno, CA 93711     
www.ddccpa.com

Michael Chojnacki (German)
Palo Alto
http://www.frankrimerman.com/our_team/mchojnacki.asp

Holger Siegwart, Esq. (German)
San Francisco
www.siegwart-law.com



Tuesday, March 29, 2011

AngelPad demoday 2 @cloudbot @splash @crittercism @stickery @locBox #daily notes

My votes out of 4 points
Would probably invest 3+

800 business plans
13 companies presenting
All companies are on angellist

@shopobot 2/4
Social commerce
Price radar

@astrid 2/4
Task list with social preasure

@hopscotch 2/4
Bar code reader and browser

@cloudbot 3/4
Independend Api for all cloud services to interact between apps and services
#platform

@kismet 2/4
Mobile dating appn using photos and locations

@splash 3/4
Social plugin for mobil games
Brings social graph to any game

@crittercism 3/4
WTF-button for apps + autolog for errors

@stickery 3/4
Learning apps for kids
Gaming platform for education

@locBox 3/4
Ipad CRM app for SME
>Awesome idea, hard to distribute, without hardware

@companyLine 2/4
Yammer with integration of services like webex, dropbox, email etc

@feedGen 2/4
Sales lead management platform
Consolidate and Convert leads to sales
Like facebook + salesforce

@coverhound 2/4
Insurance comparison and shopping platform
Next level of lead generation

@secondleap 2/4
Recommendation engine for personalized career suggestions

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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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Thursday, March 24, 2011

SF venture summit summary with @GuyKawasaki @naval @davemcclure #daily notes #SFVentureSummit

#SFventureSummit
Wifi: V7MQQT 6RQM

@Naval Ravikant
Angellist
More seed
Valuations go up
50 business plans a day
Recruting talents is the most critical success factor
A good exit needs 5-10 years, there are no short cuts

#panel - VC shifting paradigms
@SajjadMasud
@davemcclure
107 investments up to today
Dramatic cheaper distribution, with new platforms like: fb, twitter,
youtube, iphone, ipad,
Will do 100 deals per year
Get your users to pay
Next exit candidates are Nike, P&G etc
@rubygarcia
500k-1m (super angels)
Lead/syndicate Series A from 500k to 3m
Second market is a paradigm shift because founders and employees can
get liquidity without exit
Break 5-10 million revenue and everybody wants you
@rebeccalyn
@sharonwienbar
VC industry is shrinking by 2/3, less funds and smaler fund sizes,
angels are growing


#panel - social ventures
@wesselke @patrickGleeson @gautambarna @drewclark
>Most boring panel. I hope this dosnt reflect the industry.


#panel - delivering good
@bragiel
@andredLee
@chrisRedlitz
@AnnWinblad
Companies are bought, not sold.
Take out all friction from your business


#panel - going global
@richardIrving
@donButler
@nicholasElBlaze
Investments in Silicon Valley have double size of Europe
To get money, your headquarter needs to be in the valley
If you hire engeneers here, you compete with facebook
Have your HQ here but your team abroad
@ Don Wood -
DFJ investing in china and cleantech
Big companies got started by 20 year old
Valley is overheated regarding valuations
Laptop is the new factory
Most great comps started with litle capital

@guyKawasaki
Buy his new book enchantment !!!


Todos
#globumbus
500k rounds on 10-15% 3-5 x exits are ok?
500startups Demoday april 7th
Zoosk mechanic for match making?
We don't work with as.. companies (listen, fun)
Only deal with startups who openly share
Business plan structure with crowdsourced services
Pitches to all our targets
First features: apply with an idea, recommend an idea
Watch never say never from justin bieber to learn marketing
(recommendation from guy kawasaki)

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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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Saturday, March 12, 2011

#Sxswi austin texas #daily notes

#Sxswi

#makingGamesBetter
About game mechanics, social games,
Zyngas vision: become an internet treasure like google
Words of friends

#microMarketing
Greg Verdino

Pop-up Apple store scarbrough building congress avenue downtown austin

#viral connect.me
invitation list + Invite others to get in


#the lean startup pitches

@SnapAppointments
Scheduling for smal businesses

@snapWebManager

@mapomatic
Contextual map app

@planzai
Project management tool


#odogrids
Grid Design for the new world
Motivation for grids: Harmony, prediction, consistent,

#keynote
Moontowervfx.com

#gameLayer
The Game layer on top of the world
@SethPriebatch 22 years old, Scvngr


Last decade - social - connections
Game Layer - influence

1)-School: focus on final goal by collecting points, stop cheating

2)-Customer aquisition
Groupon
-free lunch
-Communal gameplay (show target and status + countdown)
-email list

3)-loyalty
-amex example
- level-up
- inclusive ownership (group ownership

4)-lbs location based systems become mainstream
Rewards work

5)-global warming

Result of the game:
Epic meaning
Blissful productive
Global problem, local solution


#slides
Color coded slides on top

2 time payment

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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, March 4, 2011

Pitches at startup monthly #Daily notes

@Jeanome 1/4
Find jeans that fit you
Slides: nice Agenda with progress at the bottom
>very smal problem

@superconnector 2/4
Networking tool to connect, create teams and collaborate
>Where is the difference to linkedin?

@MatchDesigner 3/4
Crowdsourcing design for your home
>Why not

@mobile sca.. 3/4
Keep people Exercising via their smartphone
Gamification of the gym with puzzels, coupons, points..
>First game with a real purpose

@ViziTV 1/4
Video aggregation portal

@LiveSprout 2/4
Farmville in reality
>Nice idea, impossible to scale

@GlobeTable
Time exchange

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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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Startup monthly event "lean UX" #Daily notes @jenshewald

#Lean UX keynote
Tim McCoy - product manager and designer cooper.com
@seriouslynow

Know your audience,
UX is strategy, roadmap, features, establish roadmaps
UX is engagement, inviting, compelling workflow, desire
UX is usability, clear actins, dialouqe

Framework:
-Personas (real users, do it for them)
-Needs/goals (identify issues, business objectives)
-Scenarios of use (merge objectives with needs, provide motivation and goals)
-Features (features need to desired)
-Releases (do one thing well, not many poor)

Cycle: think / make / check

Priciples
1team (design, management, dev)
Focus on high value issues
Think-make-check
Externalize (collaborative and visible)
User connection
Data driven decisions

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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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Game Developer Central - Google

http://code.google.com/games/


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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Zurb product design presentation #daily notes

Zurb at hacker dojo
design company silicon valley

#Reasons startups fail:
Ignore customers
No market need
Not right team
Poor marketing
Ran out of cash

#Build a network of supporters to realize new ideas
#a check notable to scan and comment drawings

Alex pitch
Applaud dev framework for mobile devices
Roambi dashboard for business KPIs

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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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