Crowdfunding 101

Tonight I was in an workshop with Ian MacKenzie at Parisoma in San Francisco. Ian was brilliant in going through thoughts, actions, and critical success factors pre launching, during launch and post launch a crowd funding campaign. If you are interested in crowdfunding check out this picture und get into contact with ian.

 

If you want to check out different crowdfunding platforms, go to ian's list!

xScited in silicon valley

+Josef Schodl and I had a fantastic first week in silicon valley. We have an appartment in sunnyvale thanks to everbill, meetings and discussions with interesting people. With skype our team in austria and buenos aires is connected working in a 24 hour mode hard to get xScited out of the box. We learned from blackbox and the launch event how to focus more on xScited's value proposition, how to work on an awesome user experience, how to design our entry strategy. We will incorporate soon here in US to have our headquarter here. This will be the second of my startups to go to US after wappwolf with the iBeam service. So, stay tuned and spread the word!

Chris

Relaunch my life for 2013

It has been very silent on my blog. But that does not mean that i stopped working and living :-)
So, i decided to start 2013 with new messages and a clear structure: here i will post my thoughts, in parallel i will write for other companies i have co-founded. So, stay tuned. It will be an exciting year!

Silicon Valley

I have been in Silicon Valley last week and will stay another week. I am with xScited, a platform for matching resources to demands of research projects. xScited is part of the Go Silicon Valley program of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. We are based in Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale
In the first week we had a course on several topics: how to pitch, pitching ourselves, juridical topics, some discussions how the venture capital market is functioning, etc. If you are new, this is really Silicon Valley in a nutshell, if you are experienced then this is already clear to you.
One major activity is networking. It is really great to get into contact with many people very easy, they are used to give you hints and help you on your way.
I also did some preparation before i was coming to Silicon Valley. I let my networks know that i am here. So, I met a guy I never met before. we were only linked at linkedIn. And he brought another guy with him. Really great.
Next week we will have additional meetings.
How do we know from such meetings? We check out eventbrite, plancast and meetup. There are also apps available, by the way. And of course Michael Lipper from Wappwolf, who is already here since beginning of September has already established excellent contacts including contacts to Mozilla, German American Business Association and others.
When Josef Schodl of xScited is coming next week he will take over and become part of our network, too.

ufo forscher in linz - was es nicht alles gibt!

plakat in linz

Europen Venture Market

Jetzt muss ich wieder einmal was schreiben - und zwar in deutsch. und weil ich da schon 2x mit startups von mir dabei war und es immer toll war!

Am 10. und 11. Mai findet in Berlin der mittlerweile 15. European Venture Market statt. Unterstützt wird das Matchmaking Event durch Corporate Finance Partners CFP, einem renommierten Beratungsunternehmen für M&A und Venture Capital in Frankfurt. Neben Investoren aus der DACH-Region werden auch wieder internationale Investoren aus Israel, Belgien und England erwartet.

Der Fokus der Veranstaltung liegt auf Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (ICT). Darüber hinaus werden Konzepte aus den Bereichen Cleantech & Hightech (New Materials/ Nanotech) besondere Aufmerksamkeit finden.

Bis Mitte April haben Unternehmen die Gelegenheit sich für die Teilnahme an einem Pitch zu bewerben. Das Bewerbungsformular ist vollständig auszufüllen und gemeinsam mit einem Executive Summary einzureichen. Die Anzahl der Pitches ist auf 70 limitiert.

Beim letzten European Venture Market haben übrigens vier präsentierende Unternehmen ihre Investoren gefunden. Details können gerne beim Veranstalter erfragt werden.

Die Teilnahme am European Venture Market kostet für Unternehmen 180 Euro zzgl. MwSt. Melden Sie sich dazu unter register an. Interessierte Investoren können sich einen Preisvorteil von 20% auf alle Pakete sichern. Bitte geben Sie dazu folgenden Promotioncode ein: EVM1HOLI

Veranstaltungsort ist das zentral gelegene Park Inn-Hotel am Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte. Weitere Informationen und Updates finden Sie online unter EVM oder auf Facebook.

Save the Date: 10. & 11. Mai 2011

Seedlounge

To all supporters of startups out there!

You know that startups always have problems to get money.

• they have not enough money themselve
• they already invested fff-money (family, friends, and fools)
• they are discussing with banks - all the time - OK. no comment on that
• they try to get support from government - OK. very formal. very complicated. very late.

So, what else?

• business angels - OK. I am one of them, but i do not have enough money, either.
• venture capitalists - well, you have to go to US or to London, but forget (at the moment) Central Europe

Really???

OK. One option is valid: crowd funding. LIVE crowd funding.

go for it! this week! in Germany: www.seedlounge.com.

it's time to support our future!

thx
chris