Remo’s Blog

Last week I took a 2-day trip to Berlin, visiting an event at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and visiting some friends in Berlin.

(Morten Lund in a panel – read my twit & Iavor’s Jaiku)

(The trigami dog enjoyed the good food and networking)

(Very interesting presentation of an extreme alpinist. See my twit. Note to myself: Remember the shadow on the wall, i.e. don’t forget your vision!)

(Visiting CBS from Ecato in their offices at Jägerstrasse in Berlin-Mitte. See also the recent interview from Sebastian with CBS)

Other Twitter-Messages
Read my other twitter-messages of my berlin-trip

"Users just want to listen to music – they don’t want an account, they don’t want to explore, they just want to listen! We respect that." John Buckman (magnatune) at LIFT07 (Panel: Creative work in a free world)

John’s results at magnatune:
# Average visiting length 2 hours 40 minutes
# Every 40th user pays money (conversion rate = 1/40)

Four months after my first Kiva-investments, my first loan was paid back 100%.

I reinvested the money in Togo (Africa) to a female entrepreneur who runs a general store.

Meanwhile, over $7 million has been invested through Kiva from 70′000 people. Most interestingly, 99.76% of all the money has been paid back 100% – isn’t this just AWSOME? You can help entrepreneurs generale wealth, get the money back 100%, help some other entrepreneur generate wealth, get the money back 100%, …, etc.

Registered at LIFT2007 on the 8th February 2007, I finally started using the service today (i.e. I needed almost half a year to adapt, even though Plazes was a trigami customer ;-). I installed the Plazer 2.0 and I installed the widget (see the sidebar). So far I like the user interface very much.

Lets plaze it!

The last Venture Cocktail (my first one!) was GREAT (read my according twitter-message after the event).

Next Venture Cocktail will take place on Thursday, 28th June from 7pm at Pier West.

Important Links:
# Venture Cocktail website
# Event-details on XING

See you there!