Remo’s Blog

My Friend Mike and two of his friends produced the Baywatch Basel shortmovie and have been featured in 20min today. Congrats to this cool movie!

Recently I read this article about Alibaba.com‘s European Market entry. It summarized the very interesting Alibaba.com case:

• Alibaba.com is the largest Chinese B2B Marketplace (matchmaker between buyers and sellers of all kinds of goods, from T-Shirts to Trains or Factories) and rapidly growing worldwide (28M Users)
• In November 2007, Alibaba.com raised $1.7B in an IPO
• Revenue for 2007 was 200M EUR and profit was 87M EUR
• Alibaba.com recently opened an office in Geneva to push the Swiss and European Market Entry

(Swiss National Startup Team)

(My roommate Roberto from Bashiba)

(4 day Entrepreneurship Executive course at Babson College)

(Case Study Starbucks vs. Dunkin Donuts: Coffee at Dunkin stays warm for 2 hours; Coffee at Starbucks only 15-30 min. Learning: An apparantly tiny thing such as a different cup material can have huge implications. The coffee doesn’t matter, its the cup!)

(Jessica Livingston – Author of the fantastic book ‘Founders at Work‘ – her next book will be published next year. And oh btw: I did get my copy signed ;-)

(At Y Combinator – one of the most famous startup incubators in the US)

(Very cool Airport Vending Machine at Logan Airport. There was a Sony-Machine and an Apple-Machine for iPods and Stuff. I almost bought a Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones for $199 but then backed off as I’m planning to buy Bose Headphones ;-)

The trip was very inspiring. If you are a Swiss Startup I highly recommend to apply for this unique opportunity next year.

Peter has just launched the registration period for BlogCampSwitzerland 3.0 on August 29 2008 at Technopark Zurich.

Please note that the event will take place on a Friday (not Saturday) because we’ll do it during the “Computer Science Day” (Tag der Informatik).

Please save the date and register on www.blogcamp.ch.

PS: Help us spread the word!

PPS: Here is the official trailer :-)

Link: www.youtube.com

Exsila has just launched their German version. Congrats to Rouven & Reto to this move! I think it’s very smart and I’m looking forward to the battle with Hitflip ;-).