Malcolm Gladwell Q&A
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Sebastian
Always interesting, especially the part about being criticized and motivation.
Joyful, joyful: Steel Panther ftw
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Sebastian
As you know bands like Poison, White Lion, Warrant, Baton Rouge and Lynch Mob are among my favorites, hell, Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet was my entrence door to harder music. Funny as that might seem when you consider that my later guitar heroes naturally include lads like Nuno, Paul Gilbert, Satch, Steve Vai, Malmsteen […]
Weekend links: venture capital-round
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Sebastian
Mike Butcher from Techcrunch and Liquid Labs’ own Paul Jozefak expand on a notion/trend that VCs are becoming younger and operationally more involved. Fitting into that Javilen Venture Partners EIR Semil Shah explains on Techcrunch which questions to ask yourself when choosing a VC. Professor Wiltbank reports (also on Techcrunch) that Angel Investors get 2.5x […]
Mobile video – consumption and creation shifts
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Sebastian
After I read Mitch Joel’s post on the shift of YouTube consumption from desktop to mobile from last night I immediately checked the source to see if it had more information on how the YouTube iPad app is assessed. Or any tablet for that matter. It didn’t have any. Do they consider tablet views mobile? […]
myTaxi goes America
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Sebastian
The big (well) news today is that German startup myTaxi has entered the US market (article in English on GigaOm, German on mobilbranche.de). I think this is very good news for several reasons. Firstly, for once a German company is on the forefront, not the copycat. Let’s just say there was a propensity among certain […]
Spotify. Yes, it has a future. It’s better than sliced bread.
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Sebastian
I remember very distinctly the moment when I decided that I would not only have my music collection on the server at home but also on my laptop. All of 800+ CDs at my fingertips, all the gems from my adolescent years. Tracks in the order of my Japanese import, as I remember it, not […]