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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Summary day2 #TexasBitcoinConference #daily notes #lifechanging #bitcoin #startup #pitches

#TexasBitcoinConference
 
#bitshares @Dan Larimer http://invictus.io/
protoshares is it's currency
angelShares shares of bitshare based decentralized companies
agsexplorer.com bitshares AGS angel fund
bitsharestalk.org discussions about new DAC models, documentation
bitsharesX - banking DAC
The value of an idea is just the usage of an idea - @Edison
music, pictures, movies, (selling shares in the song, art etc.)
#bitsharesMusic decentralize your radio station
#bitsharesMe


#The Psychology of Money and Value @StefanMolyneux
cash (fiat money) is evil
bitcoin is democracy and freedom
fork of mtgox is good because it aprooves the freedom of bitcoin to fail


#Revolution from Below @JefferyTucker
goverments and the dollars are from 1915
bitcoin is designed for the future
history stopped for 100 years
Cash trained us to live like asholes, no interest, no saving, money value is shrinking - bitcoin will change everything.
To accept bitcoin is like to be the first users of electricity.


#Future of Cryptocurrencies - Andreas M. Antonopoulos @aantonop
Before the end of 2014 a 5 year old will launch his own crypto currency.
We will have millions of alt coins for every imaginable topic.
There is no way to predict which coin will have monetary value.
There is no difference between the dog from doge between the queen on the pound.
Value is not created by issuing, it's created over time through adoption and usage.
Crypto currencies and the concept of blockchain will stay for the next 100 years.
Titel's and ownership transfers are one of the most probably use cases for cryptos.
Bankers see bitcoins as a lemonade stand try's to attack walmart.
www.IsBitcoinDead.com ? No, same reason like you can't take down the internet. 


#investing panel in btc companies
Michael Terpin, Adam Wyatt, Tuur Demeester, David Johnston, Eddy Travia, Matthew Roszak
BitAngels 350 angels, 12M in 12 startups
bitangels fund, investing in DAC's


#Hackathon demo pitches

@coinvance
bounty platform

@RiMo 
ripple merchant wallet to accept XRP (ripple)

@supporttr
subscription for donations app
no fees, open source

@RideShares

@toroken
Tor incentive project


#tools
coinvoice - payment processor to pay in dollars and receive btc

Thanks to @ExpertDan
Here are some links about mining:
CoinWarz - This shows a profitability comparison between different coins. It will load with my current hashrate and power use. For reference I can build a 2700kh machine for about $1800.

CleverMining - This is the mining pool I'm currently using. It mines scrypt coins and converts them to BTC. They have a chart for their estimated payout rate.

BitcoinWisdom mining calculator - This is useful to calculate the ROI for BTC mining. The hardware numbers aren't quite right but they can give you a reasonable estimate.


#todos
- buy angelshares: send btc as donations from my own wallet (not from bitcoin.de or coinbase etc) http://angelshares.info/ http://invictus.io/bitshares-ags.php
- buy ethereum
- start a new or invest into bitangels fund




Thomas Hessler
Dad | CEO | Founder @UFOstart @Globumbus @zanox | Angel Investor 

Reach me:
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US: +1 415 335 9843 


Summary day1 #TexasBitcoinConference texas #daily notes


#Use cases from btc hackathon
Medical records
Multi signature contracts
Decentralized reputation layer

Cointerra 2TH/s $5999 1700 units shipped = 9% hashing power

Charlie Lee - founder litecoin
Charlie Shrem -  btc pioneer arrested, 

#mining  @JoshZerlan
Bitcoin mining = transaction processing
Incentives: block reward (next 20 years), transaction fees (
12 mining pools = 90% hash power
Mining future is not dead its transaction fees

#ethereum @Vitalik Buterin
Use blockchain for more then money?
Legal contracts of crypto currencies.
Put code into the blockchain.

Ether will be the currency
Swiss based, on open transactions
100 people working on it right now
Apps distributet on blockchain and torrent.
Organization: central & decentral

Ethereum use cases:
Decentralize everything like contracts, money, dns, dropbox, banking.
Monthly payments
Contracts like: 2/3 releases 50% 3/3 releases 100%
Premind new currency to incentivice the creator of an idea, file, company or anyting!!!
Ethereum sounds like the next generation of software. 

#capitalism @BennSwann
Bitcoin as perfect example of capitalism
Socialism forcing people becomes fascism
Bitcoin is voluntary thats why its good!

#Tools
Coinpunk html5 wallet
Bit-card cold wallet
Bloqchan.com reddit + dodgecoin voting 

Todos
#Mine for non profit: globumbus
Research mining pools
Buy a miner from cointerra.com
Premind coins to fund the project UFODAC
Bitshares.com replace stocks

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Pitches from Bitcoin Hackathon @coinswap @JeffCoin @Supporttr @yeahletsdothat #daily notes

@ever Lego cat waver 2/4
Wallet and notification when bitcoins received in your wallet

@bitstamp 3d order book 1/4

@egg surprise - failed


@Supporttr 3/4
Monthly Donations in btc
Splits your donations into several proj
#DAC

@yeahletsdothat 3/4
Kickstarter for btc without escrow
#DAC

@qllect 2/4
Transfer ownership of digital items like keidom

@coinswap 4/4
Semi trusted exchange
"Multi signature wallet" !! Starts with3
2 out of 2 key wallet
Traderoom: 2 out of 3
#DAC

@ethereum experiment
Create Contracts for money and 
Starting a Ethereum meetup in berlin

@bitcoin vegas
Education and gamification for btc beginner
Guy who works in our coworking space

@JeffCoin voting 3/4
Voting as a currency on top of the blockchain
Inside coloredcoins
P2P voting
#DAC

Bitcoin jay !!! Guy who knows about wire, decentral wallets etc








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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Summary pitches #sbcDemoDay @Flux @Chatlingual @foodzai @1SDK #daily notes



My notes and votes out of 4 points. > 2 means I'm potentially interested

@Flux 3/4
Like nimble

@Chatlingual 3/4
Real time chat translation for customer support crm or service

@High-Mobility 2/4
Connected cars platform to connect existing cars via your smartphone

@achieved 2/4
Employee education and learning platform

@foodzai 3/4
Social receipes and p2p food selling

@avuxi 2/4
Big data for locations

@avuba 2/4
Online Banking via api

@1SDK 3/4
Cloud service saas api for
In app revenue with behaviorbased pricing

@shoutrnet 2/4
P2p wifi network and file transfer 
IOT internet of things

@reccy 2/4
Airbnb for film and photographer locations
Marketplace with subscription model

@BabyWatch 2/4
Heartbeat Sensor mobile app for
Remote diagnosis
Prenatel care, community, tracking data
Runkeeper and jawbone for pregnancy
Sold 100k on indiegogo

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Thomas Hessler
Dad | CEO | Founder @UFOstart @Globumbus @zanox | Angel Investor 


Wednesday, July 31, 2013

500startups demoday NY 2/2 @feast @greengar @tastespace #500strong #daily notes


@feast 3/4
Letsfeast.com
Learn how to cook
Crowdsourcing platform
Raising 500k

@kitereaders 2/4
Platform for children ebooks

@greengar 3/4
The #1 ios Whiteboard app in the appstore
His Cofounder is running the fastest growing frozen yoghurt franchise in vietnam

@unda 2/4
Free video messaging 

@pricebaba 1/4
Mobile shopping in india

@tastespace 3/4
Yelp for latam with online order system

@dropifi 1/4
Smb solution

@seat14a 2/4
Simple dress solution for men
50% margin
subscription model, one email per week

@pinmypet 1/4
Track and find your pet if lost
Raising 750k

@dakwak 2/4
Effortless and automated website translation 

@instaGIS 1/4
Advertising data aggregation for better ad targeting

@reesio 2/4
Real estate data
More accurate data then Zillow or trulia because of paid agents

@binpress 2/4
Commercial open source platform
Raising 1m






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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder @UFOstart @Globumbus @zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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Summary 1/2 500startups demoday NY @geekatoo #500strong #daily notes

My notes and votes out of 4 points. > 2 means I am interested 


@whill 1/4
New wheelchair, modern design, patented new wheel
Raising 1m

@geekatoo 3/4
Crowdsourced hardware and software problem platform
Airbnb for tec problems
Raising 750k

@schooladmissions 1/4
School admission process in india

@flyer 1/4
Easy create Commercial Real estate digital flyers with social media integration
Raising 400k

@tamatem 1/4
Mobile apps for arabic world
Copy cats and localization of top apps
Raising 500k

@nativeAD 2/4
Native advertising standard
Automatic creating ads, looking like the content on a webpage
Raising 1m tomopen us operation

@credii 2/4
Crowdsourced reviews for software
Purchasing decision and consulting platform
Raising 500k

@trdata 2/4
Bloomberg for emerging markets
Aggregating data and selling it to researchers, investors, banks

@appsocially 2/4
Platform for mobile organic growth and distribution
Viral, analytics, mobile apps, referrals, a/b testing
Raising 500k

@koemei 1/4
Education video platform
Makes it searchable and collaboartive via speech to text translation
Raising 1m

@boxc 2/4
Logistics platform for global ecommerce
Makes shipping from china to usa easy and cheep like local

@Floqq 1/4
Online education in latin america
Marketplace for education videos like udemy
Raising 3m

@Sverve 2/4
Word of mouth marketing
750k raising



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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder @UFOstart @Globumbus @zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Summary and votes of 8 pitches @ #FounderShowcase with @realtymogul @whalepath

My notes and votes out of 4 points. > 2 means I am probably interested to invest.

@whalepath 3/4
Crowdsourced research platform
Students & part times
Filter, template, quality 8/10hours $500 per research
750k raising
> dont see the crowd if it is pre selected

@crimewatchus 2/4
Safety software connects police to public
750k raising

@realtymogul 4/4
Crowdfunding for real estate
Pool money for office building
Like angellist and kickstarter for startups
750k raising
> I dont like their self made due diligence process. Bring the wisdom of the crowd in.

@vinolovers 2/4
Wine education subscription
> to crowded market

@embarke 2/4
Email campaign optimization by scheduling time of delivery
1m raising

@entryless 2/4
B2b payment solution

@engageapro 2/4
B2B Ratings on service providers
Yelp for professional services
750k raising

@datepress 2/4
Couples experience dates
>women want to be surprised by your creativity and not just your wallet. Hard to scale.


RSCM Ventures calculates the valuation of a seed startup based on the team within a week or two. #UFOstart does this within minutes by calculating the startup value 




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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder @UFOstart @Globumbus | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

Follow me:
http://twitter.com/ThomasHessler
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Global mobile: +1 415 335 9843 (google voice)
DE mobile: +49 173 6111884

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Interested in Startups, Investments, Work?
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

#launch2013 pitch summaries and live crowdfunding with @DOZ @HomeDine.in

My notes and votes out of 4 points >2 I am probably interested  to invest

@epilogger 2/4
App to consolidate all social streams: twitter, facebook, linkedin, foursquare

@visiobike 1/4
E bike woth gadgets for 6k

@eshares 3/4
Platform for electronic shares
Nasdaq for private companies
#a checkout for ufosstart - FSE

@DOZ 4/4
Crowdsourced social media marketing
Got grilled by mcclure and clavier
Pitch needs to improved: easy general use case, traction, profits, scalability, crowdsourcing next level
#a setup for ufostart - LSC

@socialparent 2/4
Facebook for families

@stormboard 2/4
Virtual whiteboard app

@adbidx 3/4
Face detection billboards for prsonalized advertising
Recognises: female, male, glasses, umbrella, hats, smartphones, 

@HomeDine.in 4/4 
Crowdsourcing home cooked meals
Airbnb for lunch and dinner
10k invested via launch.co/app

@adstage 3/4
Cross platform advertising tool for google, facebook, bing, linkedin
#a signup for ufostart - L

@brainpickin 
Crowsourcing Elearning platform
#a intro to GISSV - THE

@zillabyte 2/4
Linkedin for world business information
Pandora to find customers
#a signup for ufostart - L




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Thomas Hessler

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

#Pitches @blackocean #nyc #daily notes @genesismedia


@streamworks 2/4
Live encoding/transcoding Video streaming platform

@eliteDaily 2/4
18-34 years content portal
Advertising monetization
>Nobody is targeting this Audience? - I doubt
Impressive growth even without a mobile solution yet.

@quoteSQR 2/4
Platform for quotes
To easy share and monetize them
>fast oportunity, but where is the vision?

@wisemarket 2/4
Social affiliate network like customizable shop@
ECommerce via affiliate commissions
>how to get tracktion? Why should people do it?

@tastebuds 2/4
Dating based on music taste 18-25years
Freemium model

@genesismedia 3/4
Online video advertising network
Watch the video ad before seeing the article
CPC monetization 
Raising 5m series B
>Hard to create salesforce, 





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Thomas Hessler

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Future of Advertising #nyc #btov #daily notes @playapi @pricingengine


#panel 
Aniq Rahman @moat online ad analytics
Marc Michel @metamorphic ventures
Ari Lewine @triplelift 

Clicks are dead for advertising - share is the new currency
Clicks are inverse effect to conversion
Video ads 5-10 seconds will replace TV ads

#Pitches

@pricingengine 3/4
Dashboard to consolidate adwords, yahoo, bing 
Recommendations to improve ad campaigns

@playAPI 3/4
Platform to develop social apps, games and ads
In 2017 CMOs will spend more money for IT then CTOs


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Thomas Hessler

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crowdcourcing panel #btov #nyc #daily notes


Matthew Shampine @hometalk (NYC startup community wework)
Emerson Spartz - spartz media (virality and crowd expert, muggle.net givesmehope)
#a > intro him to ufostart, he likes to take smal equity for his work in startups. Likes secondmarket
Ted Roden - fancyhands (taskrabbit with subscription)
Eliot Durbin - investor indiegogo
Erica Berger moderator

Crowdsource content creation
Crowdvote to find top quality

Pitches

@houdini 3/4
Human labor in the cloud (1.2b market size)
Muhammad At-Tauhidi
Quality control for mturk to get quilified jobs done
General tasks like crowdflower or clickworker
Raising 750k

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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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Global mobile: +1 415 335 9843 (google voice)
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Pitches @GeneralAssembly #nyc #btov #daily notes @customerio @arkad


@voicebunny 3/4
Crowdsourcing solution for voice over
#a integrate in ufostart list

@dwolla 2/4
Payment platform to transfer cheap money

@neverware 1/4
Local cloud server to run windows as a virtual machine on old computers

@themuse 3/4
What shall I do with my life?
YC2012

Custermer activation 
#a ufostart Onboarding Process
Use case: crm sales channel

@arkad 4/4
Share data
KPI dashboard of cloud services
Data management
Crowdintelligence
#a ufostart kpi dashboard


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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

Follow me:
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#Pitches @wework coworking space #nyc #btov #daily notes @happify


@wiseling 2/4
Fashion market place for smb like ebay or etsy
Ecommerce

@pricingengine 2/4
Dashboard to consolidate adwords, bing, microsoft adcenter..

@peoplehunt 2/4
Crowdscanner
Matching app like highlight
Missing facebook content for matching

@martini 2/4
Group dating

#lunch
@happify 3/4
App to make you happy


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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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

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

Meet me:
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Interested in Startups, Investments, Work?
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pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov #nyc

pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov

@marketRealist 2/4
Investment research for private investors
Opposite of Sharewise 
ETF content
Quality content from professionals
Advertising model

@barandclubstats 1/4
ID check app

@I am not a virgin 1/4
Eco friendly Jeans
Made from garbage like plastic bottles

@betterPet 2/4
Dog owner social network

@hoonto 2/4
Dashboard anything
Data driven decision
Competitors: Klipfolio geckoboard 

@flinja 2/4
College marketplace for alumni communities

@smilu 2/4
Mobile multi player Game

@enplug 3/4
Offline Advertising platform with social interaction (LED TV)
>why hardware?

Music streaming for public playing 
Spotify for businesses

@myRight 3/4
Legal advise for most common questions
Crowdsourced answers from legalzoom

@styleClub 2/4
Fashion ecommerce for teenagers
Like tobi

@gonnabe 3/4
Social life concierge app
Discover what to do around you
Raising 1m


--
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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

Follow me:
http://twitter.com/ThomasHessler
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Global mobile: +1 415 335 9843 (google voice)
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pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov #nyc

pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov

@marketRealist 2/4
Investment research for private investors
Opposite of Sharewise 
ETF content
Quality content from professionals
Advertising model

@barandclubstats 1/4
ID check app

@I am not a virgin 1/4
Eco friendly Jeans
Made from garbage like plastic bottles

@betterPet 2/4
Dog owner social network

@hoonto 2/4
Dashboard anything
Data driven decision
Competitors: Klipfolio geckoboard 

@flinja 2/4
College marketplace for alumni communities

@smilu 2/4
Mobile multi player Game

@enplug 3/4
Offline Advertising platform with social interaction (LED TV)
>why hardware?

Music streaming for public playing 
Spotify for businesses

@myRight 3/4
Legal advise for most common questions
Crowdsourced answers from legalzoom

@styleClub 2/4
Fashion ecommerce for teenagers
Like tobi

@gonnabe 3/4
Social life concierge app
Discover what to do around you
Raising 1m


--
--
Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

Follow me:
http://twitter.com/ThomasHessler
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Global mobile: +1 415 335 9843 (google voice)
DE mobile: +49 173 6111884

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Interested in Startups, Investments, Work?
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Summary of Pitches at #FounderShowcase #daily notes

My #notes and votes out of 4 points. > 2 means I am interested to invest with @UFOstart

@seatAssignMate 1/4
Social seating in airplanes based on your social profile
#critical mass
500k raising

@HackerHires 2/4
Find right developer by challenging them
Recruting solution codeacademy
250k raising

@spikes 2/4
Secure browsing
Cloud browser
#browser war is taff, enterprise business

@igenApps 1/4
Mobile app creating wizard
#not an app, just a mobile website

@onContracting  2/4
Discover contract jobs
#like elance for domestic jobs
Raising 250k

Writers / publishing marketplace 
Helps writers to publish books
400k raising
#old world solution, missing online marketing for digital content 

@sortbox 2/4
Job applications for smb to sort and organize like resumator but simple
Saas subscription model
500k raising
#missing the social aspect to filter

@hugefan 2/4
Event ticketing for entertainer and artist
#I like the idea to Sell tickets to your birthday party
Raising 500k

#keynote @yammer founder David Sacks


Todos #a
@zenCash Saas dashboard for invoicing and dunning
@hackerhires 

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Pnp FallExpo summary and 30 startup pitches #daily notes @claco @scan @pinerly

#keynote
@AlexMehr - CEO zoosk
What is the most frequent way a user interacts with your product?
Focus on the most important use case, even if you product has several values.
Find the loop your user will user over and over again!
Most startups dont find it and die. The few who find it to find
another and fail.
Once you find it, NEVER let go, its a gold mine!
Use primary atomic use case needs to be sticky or it has no chance to survive.
Examples:
Zoosk: next button - to see the next profile picture
Iphone: changed from "making calls" to "using apps"
FB apps are not the primary use case (not on your news feed) thats why
they dont work.
Strategies to win against competitors: better Primary use case or come
up with a different primary use case.

#startup pitches and my votes out of 4 points
>2 I am interested

@pinerly 3/4
Social media adnetwork
750k raising

@kermdinger studios 2/4
social distribution for traditional video games
Raising 500k

@myfit 1/4
Virtual fitting room using kinect
2m raising

@provital 3/4
Medical crowdsourcing platform
Team of 3
Raising 925k

@globaltrek 1/4
Global channel partner

@smartaxi 3/4
Real time Taxi demand forecasting
Mobile app to treck and show a head map

@bonica.co 1/4
Baby registry service

@contentRamen 2/4
social media content creation tool
Raising 250k

@sonda41 2/4
Social media analytics
Raising 750k

@shoppinPal 1/4
Analytics for online shops

@timex 1/4
Timeline categories outside facebook
750k

@secondFunnel 2/4
Retargeting algorythm prediction
Raising 1m

@brightblu 1/4
Home automation IOT
Plug to switch with your smartphone
Raising 1m

@radius
Local digital content discovery app
750k raising


@lemon 2/4
Mobile wallet and receipts
#a intro to itembase to check their api offering access to millions of receipts

@ngdata 1/4
Consumer inteligence

@speaktoit 1/4
Like Siri

@traverie 1/4
Travel planing app

@biglittlebang 2/4
3d virtual kids game

@touristeye 1/4
Travel planer with 200k users
500k raising

@everbill 3/4
Invoicing cloud service
Get rid of invoicing
600 paying customers

@zabzo 2/4
Fun Todo list for students
Stanford team of 3
500k raising

@gremln 1/4
Social media analytics

@poolparty 2/4
Knowledge management system in semantic web

@MI5 1/4
Security infrastructure for assets

@stealth 1/4
Cloud infrastructure

@taztag 2/4
Mobile secure id
Traction and revenues
2m raising

@dmd panorama 2/4
4.5m users mobile app
Panorama video
5m raising

@scan.me 3/4
Digital actions in the real world
#IOT
20m app installs
Raised 1.7m
Raising 5m

@claco 4/4
Education
Lesson planing Crowdsourcing platform
Like students copy and paste wikipedia for homework
100k users aftter 10 weeks





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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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Angelpad demoday pitches spring 2012 #daily

2000 applications - 10 pitches

@academize 2/4
#education personalized video lesson creator

@embark anywhere 2/4
#travel mobile booking app

@elasticbox 2/4
#deploy applications in the cloud

@spotivate 2/4
#local event discover app

@mobile captain 2/4
#mobile local ad platform for sme

@piggybackr 3/4
#fundraising for young people
#crowdfunding for good

@spotsetter 2/4
Social Search engine to find out: Where do I go?

Future of enterprise communication
#collaboration

@rolepoint 2/4
Social recruitment platform

@dropt 2/4
Watermark platform for images to connect to ecommerce

#Todos
Hall.com
Rolepoint







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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Startup conference summary and pitches #startupconf #daily notes



#Keynote Dave McClure  500 startups  
Reinventing venture capital through innovation, incubation, iteration 
Changes in tech startups
- less capital required
- more customers online
- lots of little bets: accelerators, angels, angel list (ycombinator, tech stars, 500 startups, angel pad)
 
Web2.0 + lean startup
1. Startup costs: lower
2. Users, bandwidth: bigger
3. Transaction $$$: better 
 
Building product - cheaper, faster, better
Getting customers - easier, more measurable
Iterative product & marketing decisions based in measured user behavior.  
Successful platforms have: features, users, money.
AARRR model:   
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Referral 
Revenues 
 
 #Startup Pitches

@leadferret 2/4
Address lists

@busyflow 2/4
Integrating productivity tools like: pivotal, google docs, github, basecamp, dropbox, evernote etc.

@flipgigs 3/4
Marketplace for student labor
Internships

@GZpoints 3/4
Discounts for kids on local stores based on their grades

@daring.is 2/4
What to buy - answering engine

@sonarflow 2/4
Music recommendation app

@vuukle 2/4
Credibility filter for comments


#Keynote @JustinKan Exec
Starting companies -
@Kiko web calender never got users
@Justin.tv got funding from YC
@Twitch.tv asked customer what they want: justin.tv for gaming
@Socialcam mobile streaming
@EXEC. Outsorce tasks via video message for $25
Good time to start a company right now: just because its so easy with Heroku to build web apps
You will never win if you don't try.

#Keynote @TimDraper,
Is looking for:
-Revolutions
-Businesses with zeros on their balance sheets (no costs)
-Heros and riskmasters
Recommends countries to invest in: singapore and korea

#tracktion panel
With @99designs @seatgeek @wepay @inporia
Recommendations: lean startup idea, mvp,

#Investors panel
Pitch: show dont explain, tell stories

#Keynote Jerry Kaplan
How to fix the 5 biggest mistakes founders make?
1 write down your goals and mission
2 dont try to be right, find out the right idea.
3 distribut your equity and dont be greedy (equity is like shit if you keep it in a pot, but it grows if you spred it out)
4 hire people you need and not nessesarly you like.
5 know when to let go.

Best qualities you need
1 belief that you can make a difference
2 passion
3 optimism
4 tolerance for uncertainty
5 genuine concern for others

Skills
1 Leadership - build consensus in the face of uncertainty
2 Communication - everyone should know their job and how it contribute
3 Knowing when to make a decision - amateurs too early, perfectionists too late
4 Teamwork - delegate, trust,msupport (Think of yourself as an employee of your company.)
5 Ability to telescope - attention to detail while seeing the big picture

Companies have the personality of their CEOs

#Todos for UFOstart
Data guy
Customer service guy
Get Dealflow On the platform via landingpage

Legal document generator for startups:  



Tuesday, April 24, 2012

#FounderShowcase #2 startup pitches @itembased @talentina #Daily notes #UFOstart

My votes out of 4 points > 2 I would probably invest

@einztein 2/4
Learning profile to share what u r learning
Raising 600k for product and market

@itembased 4/4
Inventory list of all items you bought
Community around all your items
All manuals of your items
Current value
Sell on ebay interface
#crowdsourcing
#ecommerce innovation for second hand sales
Raising 1.5m

@talentina 3/4
Platform for personal coaching
#crowdsourcing
Raising 500k

@paycento 2/4
Micropayment with your social ID
Raising 2.5m






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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

Follow me:
http://twitter.com/ThomasHessler
http://www.facebook.com/thomashessler
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Reach me:
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Global mobile: +1 415 335 9843 (google voice)
DE mobile: +49 173 6111884

Meet me:
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