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F**kedcompany founder in financing news

News about a funding for an advertising technology company run by Phil Kaplan aka Pud of F**uckedcompany. This is quite amusing. Apparently it's a solid technology, but I can't help wondering what the German equivalent might be. "Don Alphonso starts internet content syndicator play" perhaps ;-)

Via Jeff Clavier

January 24, 2005 in Finance & Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Very large emails

This is just what I needed earlier this week: Dropload
 lets you transfer large (up to 100MB) files, and makes it accessible to anyone with an email-address. Firmly in the "duh - why did nobody think of that before" category ;-).

Via Josh Rubin

January 19, 2005 in Tools | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Misc Musings

  • Today I received a christmas card from a business associate. It's quite amusing how long it can take or how late (?) some people send it ;-)
  • I really wanted to go to David Isen's WTF last year, so perhaps I manage FTC this year.

January 18, 2005 in Misc | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

cipio buys infineon portfolio

Infineon Ventures' portfolio has been sold to Cipio Partners for a "middling, two digit million sum". After the surprising announcement in October that operations will be discontinued, the buyers seemed to have been queueing out the door and around the building, allegedly with up to twenty interested parties. Now the local boys snapped it up.

January 14, 2005 in Finance & Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Venture Blogs in Germany?

When is the first venture blog going to appear in Germany?

January 7, 2005 in Finance & Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Weltmarktführer

Through distributing the film startup.com in Germany I met a lot of interesting people. For instance, Klaus Stern rang me up, to talk about his new documentary "Weltmarktführer". Its done in the style of a fly-on-the wall documentary without commentary about Tan Siekmann, the former founder and CEO of Biodata. From what I've heard it should be amusing. According to the film's website, former shareholders of Biodata get free entry ;-)


January 5, 2005 in Misc | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Collapse

Collapse is the new book by Jared Diamond, he of "Guns, Germs and Steel" fame. I have a big Christmas queue of books but I'll get this soon.

More info on the new book here (NY Times, reg req'd). Via Paul Kedrosky

January 3, 2005 in Misc | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Collapse

Collapse is the new book by Jared Diamond, he of "Guns, Germs and Steel" fame. I have a big Christmas queue of books but I'll get this soon.

More info on the new book here (NY Times, reg req'd). Via Paul Kedrosky

January 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack