Remo’s Blog

As LiberoVision announced yesterday, Swisscom has acquired a 8% stake of the company.

More information:
# LiberoVision press release
# Swisscom press release
# News.ch News
# News.ch Startup News

(via 20min print)

If you always wanted to know what people were twittering about you, just ask Twitterment. Example search results:

# Switzerland
# Basel
# Zurich
# Pizza
# Scoble

(via Scobleizer)

The second episode is online: Webcast / Download

Yesterday I was at the Venture Apéro at the studios of SF Start up. The cool thing was that we saw the premiere of the second episode 9:30pm, i.e. 40 minutes before it went live on TV. Plus I met several cool people like the producers of the show or founders of business angel networks.
Unfortunately for me, the focus in the second episode was either on the projects that came in the Top 13, or on "sexy" projects like WhipFlipp. trigami didn’t get any coverage – but at least you saw me for a few seconds at the presentation ceremony :-). As you might guess, trigami is not part of the Top 13. But we’re still very happy to be among the Top 38. For such a young project its a good result. From my point of view we didn’t made it because of these causes:
#1: The project was too young. We had no prove of concept (remember: the pitches were done early January)
#2: My pitch was lousy. I should have been more courageous and show more emotions
#3: The Q&A was lousy. I had no satisfying answers for the very good questions.
#4: The topic we cover was not "sexy" enough. OR: I didn’t MAKE it sexy enough…
#5: The jury had problems understanding what we do and see the impact of it. OR: My pitch was lousy :-)

Anyway: Good luck to the remaining 13! You deserve it!

My favorites of the second episode:
Giveawine (they already have 750k funding and CEO of Fleurop International is on the board)
Exsila (they now have over 8000 members and 50.000 media items)

Bloggers that also covered the second episode:
# Nicolas Berg
# Leu
# Peter Stöckling

Update (its picture time):

(yes, I’m back!)

(more than 100 people came)

(cockpit view: thats what it looked like when we were pitching in front of the jury)

(yeah, we saw the second episode 40 minutes before it was aired on tv :-)

My friends over at PRIMECUT are organizing the next two of the famous spygame-events in Basel and Zurich. Spygame is a mixture of the famous game Scotland Yard and a classic chase. Check out this video to learn more:

Link: www.youtube.com

The spygames are going to take place on the following dates:
Basel: Saturday 12th of May 2007
Zurich: Saturday 2nd of June 2007

You can sign up here. Have fun :-)

Thanks to Dominik I’ve been an early bird at Kyte and was able to reserve the name "remo" for my channel name. Yeah :-).

Kyte opened the doors today and everyone is able to register now.

More information:
# Techcrunch
# GigaOM
# Dominik
# Peter
# Lord Lance

Good luck to kyte!