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Post Category →. Wait – what? March 29, 2016. I am pretty confident my partner Jason is among the most well-read VCs out there. We are easily talking several books a week. I am happy if I manage one book a month. I have been bugging him to start a blog about what he is reading – because I know I sure benefit from his recommendations… Continue reading →. Hire the trajectory, not the status. Posted in Startup advice. January 20, 2016. 8221; Joking aside, the less catchy… Continue reading →. October 23, 2015.

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Europe, it's time to kick off the blockchain revolution - BerlinVC

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Europe, it’s time to kick off the blockchain revolution. Posted in Ecosystem thoughts. April 20, 2015. Even in the tech community there are a few people left that think that the blockchain is something you lock your bike with (and oddly enough, they would be right if you assumed a connected smart-lock that uses the blockchain! This post is of course very selfish, because I want to back a lot of you folks “blockchaining it”. Do get in touch if you are. Some ideas for native bitcoin apps. With regards to s...

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Post Category →. Hire the trajectory, not the status. Posted in Startup advice. January 20, 2016. One of the most common and cringe-worthy boardroom phrases is “… I think we need to hire a world class C[x]O or VP of [X].” I am still waiting for the day when the CEO replies “thank you for flagging the world class piece, I would have hired a mediocre candidate! 8221; Joking aside, the less catchy… Continue reading →. Donut board meetings vs VC value add. Posted in On VC(s). August 28, 2015. August 26, 2015.

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The Lisbon Awakening - BerlinVC

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Posted in Ecosystem thoughts. April 19, 2015. Man was I in a bad mood when I touched down in Lisbon. The last days had been stressful, a comically bad Bayern team were well beaten by Porto the evening before and I had to leave my home at 4am to catch the flight. Well Lisbon sure did change my mood quickly. I went from grumpy cat to curiosity to extreme enthusiasm within a few hours. Every now and then you’re in a city for the first time and you just “feel it”. You can have a great life on a startup salary.

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Leaped like a tiger, landed as a bedside rug - the risks of overselling your round - BerlinVC

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Leaped like a tiger, landed as a bedside rug – the risks of overselling your round. Posted in Startup advice. February 19, 2015. There is a German saying that goes something like this:. 8220;Als Tiger gesprungen und als Bettvorleger gelandet.”. The thing that doesn’t work so well though is when deadline X passes by a long time. And it becomes evident that X, Y and Z funds actually never tabled a term sheet at all. And then you come back with a new deal where the valuation is X instead of XX...Of course w...

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Post Category →. A new venture firm called BlueYard. Posted in Ecosystem thoughts. January 4, 2016. You may have noticed a significant decay in my blogging activity recently. My excuse is that over the last few months Jason Whitmire and I have started a new venture firm called BlueYard Capital and that took up a fair amount of attention and time. With the help of our entrepreneurs, our co-investors and a whole… Continue reading →. Architecting valuations (building a house of cards). July 7, 2015. Even in...

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Don't manage your startup by other people's blog posts - BerlinVC

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Don’t manage your startup by other people’s blog posts. Posted in Startup advice. February 21, 2014. One of the true gifts from the internet to entrepreneurship has been the volume and accessibility of information on how to build and run a company. Thank you internet for helping to democratize and liberate entrepreneurship like that. Most good entrepreneurs will suck up information like a sponge, digest it and apply key learnings to their companies if and when they think it makes sense. They may be right.

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The best tech ecosystem in Europe is... - BerlinVC

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The best tech ecosystem in Europe is…. Posted in Ecosystem thoughts. August 12, 2013. A few weeks back I got an opportunity to ramble on in great length. About the current state of the Berlin tech ecosystem on Tech Crunch. A kind of the truth and nothing but the truth post. Towards the end I briefly touched on a topic that I feel is worth a long blog post on its own. I am going to be lazy and just copy-paste what I wrote:. Not Berlin vs. London, but Berlin AND London AND Stockholm AND. On our part we are...