its amassing to see how the Kids get instantly more creative with a Mac… weird!!!

What http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_finds_working_at_work :)

Things are not super at our home these days – but the kids get a lot of attention and I really hope they will not suffer from their parents trouble.

To open a business i easy

To keep it open is really difficult

I have had MANY people around me – considering that I think of my operation more or less as a one-man-army with lots of allied in my 85+ companies, project and “clubs”… But I must say that of all people Rasmus is impressing me to the max. I have also become more selfconfident on what I expect from “people working for me” – but Rasmus is just KILLER/STELLAR/AMAZING. Maybe I like him so much because he is like me – a simple genuine salesmann ;) – but I hope he can turn some big deals around and get better at numbers then I will ever be.

And ys – I FEEL DARN LUCKY.

I hate my self when Im to fast and cant deliver -it reminds me of the worst VCs I have met. Bvvvdrrr – I dont want to be like that.

Sorry Rasmus!

CRAZY SHIT -> Flex Barcode Reader Component – his component uses Flex and a webcam to read UPC/EAN barcodes, which it uses to look up CD and book information using the Amazon.com web service API.

I think its a new era – with all this flex and stuff – still havent figured out how too use it to make a business – but give me 4-5 months…. (And honestly – I dont really get it – but thats normally not a problem ;) )
Via Allan P.

UPDATE: Link to ijoule blog
Im so proud to be with and behind David – in this amazing product/project – doing somethign about the biggest and most crazy disease in the world. The numbers are scary – and here is a seldom link to my own post) I Off course its also nice to put action behind my big mouth (a.k.a. the WILD project)

In our family we have a very close friend – lets call her Miss C – a truly amassing person. Miss C was not born into a super easy life – but not big trouble either – but over youth she had the most stupid friends one can have and was pretty hard hit by “pure bad company”. Hlin has know her from childhood and I always just liked her from my hearth – not like many other of her friends (who are pretty fucked up – like your partners friend are by default ;-) )

So to the point – Miss C has over the last year transformed from having a small depression – achieved at the work as a social wellfareworker  – where she had people spitting her in the face and piles of papers on her desk with unsolved cases of “removing babys/kids from their parrents” – so so so bad that ANYONE WOULD HAVE GOTEN DEPRESSED. Also keeping in mind that even I cant sleep really well after hearing her tell about how these cases “with kids who are getting really bad treated” are just not solved due to lack of personal… BUT BUT BUT – after 12-18 months of really having problems staying home and not working – our AMAZING FRIEND  – this MISS C – has reinvented herself – got a new job started taking coaching classes (and I was not found of the Idea – I was putting it in the Numerology league). SHE IS NOW HAPPIER THEN EVER AND HAS SO MUCH POSITIVE ENERGI and is so inspirering to be around – congratulation to the human drive and transformation ability of the brain – I LOVE LIFE.

The PageGangster dudes – have done a SUPER NICE instant upload tool for those who wants to flash the pdf´s. Try it here.

And I just loves those companies and people who makes everything look smoother then apple.. And YES – Im involved :) via the master of the good Life.

See the CEO sallary developement in the last 25 years.

Its nice to see ventures and things breaking trough – I have been hunting online business models and revenue since 1997 and I cannot say that I have been too succesfull until now – but halleluja – its feel like its coming. I could not care less if the Bank in US have done som wacked loans and there are trouble – (its was fu… obvious anyway that US economy is a big cracked up – when I go there and cant sleep due to jetlag – and see commercials (super wellproduced) telling me that I can get a nice car without paying 1$ up front and even have 5000$ cashback – ehhh – thats not healthy – sorry. I could not care less about this – because this time the internet will not be as affected by the outside – the interenet is now a 70-80% ecoloob where money are made – even though super efficient – and services are created and payed for (see mail Google Storage note).

Notes:

Zecco – is truely amazing!

Palore – lead by super entrepanuer Hanan Lifshitz was featured on Scoble (the big kahuna in blogging) – after a very very very hard start I think Palore can be BIG BIG !!

Kontera – lead by ultra nice Yoav – is growing VERY FAST now and makes god money !!

HelloGroup.com´s 60 people – makes money and delivers a super product – CEO Jakob Langemark is a KING.

and I could go on and on….

Being in synch – or at least believing you are
Heini and the BullGuard guys was trying to get the new iPhone dog to advertise BullGuard 2 years ago – 100% LA style – this creature has a manager and pr assistant ;) I have been a fan of Pierre Winther since 1994 – and I sence that he is getting he artistic breaktrough this year..

Also about websites and services:
Zyb.com is really good – Linkedin is impressing me – nice new features – The new PorteFolio business magazine from Conde Nast seems good (I love their print magazine on travel – and Im aware that its not very socialistic – sorry). Twitter is getting really a pain in the a.. Facebook seems to be the next VERY BIG thing – its hard to find time for all these LinkedIn, Plaxo – but its a darn smart and efficient way to find the people you need… 23hq.com is super – I do have an multi upload problem but its a SUPER SERVICE. I ended at this website – showing quite a couple of new online revenue stream I did not know

And THE VERY BEST OF ALL – GMAIL (and Google services – Im on Maps all the time) – yesterday I finaly got the chance to upgrade my storage – wow – these guys are kicking asssss!!!! Google Checkout took care of a SUPER EASY BUYING PROCESS and now I have 100GB of space for my MAIL (it was full all the time) – pictures and whatever comes up – I recon that its not hard for them to see what music I like (after crawling my mails ;) and the adwords starts to get my attention now and then…

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I simple adore Apple for their bility to keep being cooler then the rest – also because I know how much (endless) Samsung and Sony and … are putting into the war on cool design. I silently hope that Normann Copenhagen will get to that level within Industrial design – and the Woofy.

I love people who really get exited about stuff ;)

Via Mickey

Lets Dance, Laugh and Celebrate – for Technology and Our New Local Hero – Mr. Dalgaard

Imagine that a Danish brad is taking his company public in America (its has never happened before – AND NO -> EuroTrust was not something we should count in – just be happy Danes where not obandoned from Nasdaq). Imagine – that this guy has gotten all the attention from the worlds biggest banks who now will take him public – and even suck his d… (desk) if he asked to…

Dear Danish Media and Journalists – all you got out of this story is that: its probobly too “dot com”ísh and never made profit – BUT HEY STOP. PLease note that:

This guy brougth his own bread to the bakery – by comming to SF and starting a company – and succeded.

This guy invented a whole new category in the “software as a service” space – and you will end up being refering more to this guy then any other danish entrepanuer.

This guys has a vision and a mission – that is reflecting what he got in Denmark selfconfindence and responsible social behaviour.

This guy will do one of the most interesting tech Ipo´s this year – following the Google movement with hosted services and millions of paying users – I was lately inviteted to talk at Hasso Platners (The co-founder and chairman at SAP) yearly event (I spoke about tits) and I saw him in the eyes when he talked about how endleesly surprised (and worried) they where at SAP by Google Earth (more maps.google.com) – and after this demonstration of THE POWER OF THE GOOGLE GRID there is NO END TO WHAT BUSINESS GOOGLE CAN DO A TAKE AT.

Why the heck am I bitching about this – I’m on holiday for f… sake… Well I was really sorry to see that the press had so little excitement about SuccesFactors going public – since I just hope that Danish IT/Entrepanuers will get the same selfconfidence boost as it got from Skype – seeing that EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!

And off course Im also influeced by a call from Lars – but he is just a bit worried that his highschool friends (and mother) will not see him in Superman Costume on Frontage of the danish Euromann (magazine) ;)

The dodgeball story and stries like this is always forgotten in the rush og growth. But – no one cries – the guys probobly have a nice bank account and can do something else – and Google has just shown stamina by failing which is so important in my point of view.

As some of you might have noticed I do A LOT IN GERMANY these days. And I must say that its really amazing whats going on in the 4th biggest economy in the world. They are are simply starting to believe in them selfs again (despite no really smashing global internet startups the last 6 years and no real kick ass VSs). Therefor I have desided to go more or les ALL IN :) – and after spending 10 visits to Berlin this year and Friday a visit to Munich – I must agree with http://www.monoclemagazine.com that Munich is probobly one of the cities in the world with the highest quality of living – WOW it rocks. Even though its beating Copenhagen (came in 2nd).