Summary Heureka 2014 #hrk14 #daily notes

Heureka 2014

#hrk14

#Berlin TXL the next urban tech republic to build smarter cities

#Katie Rae @ktrae #techstars 2/4

Have a good story, why are you doing this?

Team should sit in the same boat.

Advocates are fundamentaly important.

#Sales Kung Fu - Steli Efti 4/4

Sales is the reality check!!

Sell Benefits not Features! (Personal agenda)

Balance vision and reality (dont oversell)

The "Elephant" is your friend (address issues)

Selling to wrong customer will kill your startup.

Structure sales emails

Send much more emails

Automate emails

Send a "good bye email" after 3 followups

Call everyone within 5 mins after he signed up!

Demo max of 15mins

Always leave your comfort zone to make an impression

Followup as long as you get a clear yes or no

Follow-up = winning!!

#Bitcoin - future of money @brian fabian crain 3/4

DAC's infrastructure and examples:

Stockexchange, Ebay, dropbox (maidsafe), ...

Startup ideas for bitcoins:

Wallets exchanges derivatives remittance atm mining compliance crowdfunding coloredcoins paymentProcessing blockchainAnalysis

DecentralicedApplications

#Storytelling @OleTillmann 1/4

"Learn to fall and fall to learn"

How storytelling makes you an expert in your field.

#become a data driven company @Florian Heinemann 

Why is it important to have a data driven company?:

Better decision qulity

High frequency decisions

Decentral decisions

Positive motivation for team

Reducing room politics in companies (kill meeting decisions)

How to achieve?

implement  processes and systems early

Move in phases and build silos to combine later

1) Orga: BI guys in each department, strong backing by management

2) Infrastructure: avoid data silos

3) People: have an BI architect expert

4) Culture: less wrong is the new right, content beats ego (be strict on personel)!

#a todos

newsletter Epicenterbitcoins

Bitcoin Workshop 31.5.2014

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Summary bitcoin startups meetup betahaus berlin #daily notes #ufostart

About 50 attendees

1) 10 bitcoin predictions for 2014:
1 Security - hardware wallets
2 Fiat Bottleneck - easier access to bitcoins via ATM's
3 Mining industry - manufactories getting build for mining
4 Regulatory confusion - every country will try to regulate
5 Payment system - new infrastr like bitpay, coinkite etc
6 Institutional investors - will heavyly invest
7 Anonymity - darkWallet
8 Layer on top - protoshares, colored coins, ethereum, mastercoin
9 developing world - to send and spend money
10 (my view) Bitcoin will become the economical fundament of the internet. Every email, every click, every content and action will have a bitcoin price and becomes chargeable!

2) ColoredCoins.org
Qllect - intro to colored coins
Currency
Asset/value store
Platform (tec soft network)
Seperate

!!! A colored coin represents a stock in a company or a gram of gold
or a US Dollar. Which could avoid the regulation !!!

3) Cavirtex.com !!!
Depot for bitcoin and a stockexchange

4) Drupal using bitcoin as alternative to bitpay
Easy Payment solution
Without fees

5) bitfinger.org
Johann Barbie
Finger protocol
Uses your email address as your bitcoin wallet

6) 37coins .com - A global wallet based on feature phones
Its using bitfinger
Launched 10 days ago


#a myTodos

Keidom.com - Blockchain startup for digital goods and art, setup for sandra-rauch.de @paulhessler

Digital media art fair in munich this weekend +Sandra Rauch

Met Micha Hoffmann - +Lars Schulze

Setup bitcoin ATM's in Berlin Munich Hamburg Frankfurt etc @paulhessler +Paul Hessler

Whitelabel rippl for every startup to replace their captable and IPO them from day1 #UFOstart

Bitcoin payment solution for clicks, posts, emails, likes, shares, #UFOstart

My slides at the EBSpreneurship forum 2012 #startup #ufostart #globumbus #zanox

How would Silicon Valley reInvent Industries, Startups and your Life? 3 secrets you can learn, to build a succesfull company like the zanox founders Jens Hewald, Heiko Rauch and Thomas Hessler did. And how www.UFOstart.com can help you to build your own startup.

EBSpreneurship ufostart from Thomas Hessler

Peer financing conference embarkon @ sun campus

#peer financing conference embarkon


#crowdfunding platforms
indiegogo, lendfriend, lendingclub, chiatti, virginmoney, smava, prosper, myc4, yoursports, zopa,  #pfin

#appbackr
Invest in iphone app projects beforedevelopment and get paid later with an upsite

#crowdfunding panel
Chris mccoy ceo - yoursports like sellaband
Rob garcia productstrategy - lending club like prosper (passing banks)
David kuchar founder - lendfriend like virginmoney
Ram lakshamanan founder - chittai like kiva
#a Skillocracy #crowdsourcing
 
#peer financing embarkons
Trevor cornwell, ceo embarkons (intro by christian rees)

#alternative funding panel

Nathan beckord venturearchetypes
Kayvan baroumand - pnp
Ankit agarwal - micello
Danae ringelmann -Indiegogo crowdfunding of ideas
-2years, 3000 projects, 39 countries,
-presell your product
-turn costs into revenue (like our blue party)
-get money from customer by selling smal peaces of your product
-internship programs (pizza and beer)

#How to raise first 25k
Eric klein - klein venture, chris gill - svase, mark dangeard -
commons, raymond lay - playhaven
Sources: Friends & family (0%), Angels (10%), Ycombinators (10% incl
advise), Customer (0%)

#globumbus
Proof points for investors:
-proof if they get friends and family money
-get cashflow positive from day1
-25k are enough to get it running
-get something smal running right
-could he convince a team from your idea?
-enough shares for the team?
-15-20% for employees pool
-co-founders hard to find you have to know (friends)
-engage your customers from day1 to proof if somebody wants it
-are they able to bootstrap?
> Consolidate crowdfunding platforms


#a check VentureArchetype, Sandhill angels
# check Launchbox take 10% for first 25k, Ycombinator, Techstars
#a check microseed fund dave mc Lure (by chris maresca) Check his slides on slideshare
#Sponsors
Cooley, appbackr, ostatic, techzlu, venturebeat, cloudbook, semantic
seed, svase, ssv network

web2expo NY09 notes - Do what you do best. Link to the rest. #w2e

#w2e NY 2009
#what happens next? Jeff Jarvis
Life is a beta (careers, marriages, kids)
Process over product
(Openess leads to collaboration)
End of mass production
The best is the enemie of the good.
Beta lifestyle
#a what would google do (book)

#enterprise mashing, oren michels
Open your api
Pay attention to potential risks
Good examples: bestbuy, netflix

#Chris Brogan mayor of twitter
#Caterina Fake, hunch, flickr founder

#digg
40mio users
Digg add, user feedback increases add price
Don't hire PR do it yourself, hack the press
Release early and often
Prototypes are cheap to build
Local: gorilla foursquare
#a crunchbase.com blog of kevin rose

#Oreilly
Internet war, not open to the world
Web20: building internet operating system
Don't just open up because you're the underdog.
Do the right thing. You will gratify the people and astonish the rest. Mark twain Jeff Jarvis
If you can't make it, fake it.

#murder as a way to win, Nilofer merchant
@nilhofer
Murderboarding strategy:
Framework for making tough decisions:
-Faster
-With wisdom of any/many
-Dosnt get diluted
-Clear decision at the end

4steps
-decide what matters
-sort
-choose
-test
http://bit.ly/NewHow

#Collaborative problem solving is GOOD
(Engagement, resilient solutions, brains knowing why)
Because, if WE decide together, we will fight together to get it!

#How to?
-Park, don't kill
-Avoid antibodies (love or leave it)
-Pronouncing death (publish what you killed)
-Make it fun by making it end (clear timeline)
-Cloaking devices


#The 5 whuffie factors, Tara Hunt
@missrogue
www.horsepigcow.com
Forget social media marketing strategy!
Think people/customer
-centric (not yourself),
-happiness (make your own choice, effective)
-influencers/enthusiasts care about your enthusiasts
-launch/learn
#a book: Down and out in the magic kingdom. - No money in the future insted whuffie
Slides at slideshare

cloud computing conference Santa clara 2009

#cloud computing conference
Santa clara convention center
My assumption:
The idea of cloud computing is powerful and will change the industry. But not the existing tech industry will make it happen. It needs a web rebel doing this with the concept of "open platform as a service" to get the
cloud alive!
http://cloudcomputingexpo.com

#twitter meetup - apps for twitter

Here some short notes about the first twitter meetup I attend at
hacker dojo last night.
My summary about this in one sentece: The valley is now developing
apps based on twitter traffic and content like hell.
This will become a new universum, regarding realtime- content and
interaction, because now you can react on customer needs or buying
decisions in realtime. So its the right time to think about
monetization of this and cpa is the right currency, using
http://apps.zanox.com There is real potential for the next killer
application.

#twitter meetup
Hashtag: #Tmeetup

#arktan
Connecting your digital activity
Like friendfeed and allows you filtering and auto posting by topics in
different channels

#twihotels
Realtime Hotel queries via tweets and RT

#twitsnaps
Shrina patel
Fotosharing on twitter like tweetpic plus community features and editing

#yourversion
Twitter tool for sharing, search, review and sharing like tweetdeck,
but much more

#krillionkritter
Automatic direct messages for followers and tweets like price comparison

#140h.Me Hashtag tracker
lawrence sinclair
Collects all hashtags and offers in realtime a url for this under
140h.me/hashtag
hashtag plus a wiki page. So everybody can contribute to the same
hashtag to setup up a hashtag-ipedia

--
Sent from my mobile device

Thomas Hessler
CEO/Co-Founder of zanox

web2expo 2009 in a nutshell - The power of less #w2e

Web2expo 2009 - "The power of less"


+++ "What's coming html developments?" +++
Category: Web development tools
-Canvas: for browser graphic apps
-fast java script: dramatic faster
-web workers: doing things in the browser backround
-desktop integration: cutting edge desktop/web link

Example developer tools:
-Ms Silverlight, adobe flash, apple cocoa, sun javaFx
-Open Web Platform: home, documentation, dashboard, directory and roadmap for developers
-Firebug: mozilla environment for developers
-safari: (like firebug)
-chrome (only fiew tools)
-Yui: yahoo framework
-Blueprint: cross browser styling framework
-ms super preview
-thunderhead: grid based layouts from mozilla
-atlas: future web apps
-open web tools: there are hundreds, check out on: open web tools directory
>Thinking of starting, iterate or improve something? - Start today!

+++ "The Lean startup"- Eric Ries +++
http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/eric-ries-lean-startup-presentation-for-web-20-expo-april-1-2009-a-disciplined-approach-to-imagining-designing-and-building-new-products
Category: Strategy and business models
Startup #1
Good startup? Plan, vision, best team, well organized - but failed! (40mm lost)
Shadow beliefs:
-we know what customers want
-we can predict the future
-advancing the plan is progress

Startup #2 (Imvu)
No plan
-Shipped product in 6 month (horribly buggy beta)
-charged from day one!
-shipped multiple times a day (50 times a day)
-no pr, no launch (focus on customer needs)
-results: 10mm dollars in 2007
Learnings:
-Commodity technology stack
-Customer development
#a book recommendation http://Bit.ly/tptte

Product development
Old: waterfall process from requirement to mainten.
New: Agile - experiment/feedback/experiment (picture) =customer development + extrem programming
Minimize the total time through the loop:
Ideas - code - data - ideas - code ...

How to builld a LeanStartup
(Learn- code- measure- faster)
-continous deployment (severals a day)
-Tell a good change from bad change quickly
-revert a bad change quickly
-work in small batches (large batch 3 day work)
-break large projects into small batches
-run tests locally
-continuous integration server (buildbot)
-incremental deploy
-alerting and predictive monitoring
-fix problems from customers
-a/b testing is key to validating
-make it simple and measurable and auditable for everyone
-asl why five times when something unexpected happens
-make proportional investments in prevention
-behind every technical problem is usually a human problem. Fix the cause, not the symptom


+++ "Situation normal, everything must change." - Simon wardley, canonical.com ´+++
-Shift: from Innovation, bespoke, products, to services
-Componentisation is the right strategy (focus on your core competency)
-Cloud computing is the future
-Examples of the shift: amazon ec2, google apps, salesforce, Ubuntu: operation system based on cloud computing (from canonical)


+++ "CRM with Facebook" - clara shih +++
Category: Fundamentals
New solutions with facebook connect:
#a Facebook + salesforce
#a book recommendation: Thefacebookarea.com
Facebook ad campaigns to people
Appirio: facebook recruiting tool (employee recomm.)
Customer service: salesforce with twitter


+++ "Its the people, stupid" - Deborah Schulz +++
Category: Marketing and communication
Join, not interrupt people
Be a part of the community
Help users participate
Stay for some value
Love you give, you get back
>Experiment, listen, rinse, repeat

Examples:
-Dopplr
-Photojojo
-Etsy
-Thradless fotos on t-shirts
-Overnight-prints
-Moo business cards with your flickr fotos on the back


+++ General +++
Presentations: http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/proceedings
Tags: w2e web2expo
Twitter #w2e #web2expo
Groups: Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr
Full schedule: http://Web2expo.com/sf/events