Posts Tagged ‘vc’

Mission to Mars with “rocket man” Elon Musk

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

As I just read an article in German’s “Die Zeit” on serial entrepreneur Elon Musk and his adventure to travel to mars.
Elon Musk was one of the founders of Pay Pal and is an investor in several solar & cleantech companies and the coolest thing: Tesla. Seems that internet business is not interesting enough for some people :-)

There is also a comprehensive interview on youtube:

Sequoia capital and the end of the good times

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

I just read an interesting blog at BWLzweinull about the future of online advertisment

Matthias recommended a Sequioa presentation about the end of the good times:

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession)

 Eldon also has some other, really cool, presentations about venture capital markets in his portfilio at slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/eldon

 

Micro Trends for start-ups in times of a global recession

Monday, October 13th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Read Write Web Blog writes about 10 smaller trends in times of a bad economics surroundings

1. Transparency.

2. Relocalization.

3. Reduced power of gatekeepers.

4. Micro-trend Slopes replace Chasms.

5. Changing balance of power between big and small businesses.

6. Self-organizing networks beat command and control structures.

8. Ad $$$ will flow to measurable ROI models.

9. Bubbles will form and pop faster.

10. The end of 11 point lists

If you get VC in this times you could easily start riding with your company on one of this trends

more details here: 

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/startups_10_micro_trends_to_bet_on.php