Im so happy not to live in the US – and Im a bit shamefull to admit I have watched a lot of CNN without knowing how rightwing they are….”More sounding more like Hugo Chavez…” – wholly cracker – the old greyhaired guys must be on crack!

Sometimes – or say quit often – people ask me how I can manage all the stuff I do. Like this post:

Morten how do you manage to focus on so much stuff at the same time.. and still sound like you have it all under control?

David
June 19th, 2007

The answer is so simple – I DONT.
I simply dont believe en focus and controle.

Off course I have used 15 years in chaos – and therefor Im not so afraid of it. I am very nervous and very afraid pretty often – but i love the risk and the game. And I never saw anyone with a 255 page strategy plan who actually had more fun/joy – or less worries. I let entrepanuers work – help if I can – and cross my fingers.

Update: I think I forgot to say – that you have to work (or mentally be aware 24/7) and that I hate to loose so badly that its a problem quite often even when we play family games ;)

Im just about to leave Ibiza after 2 weeks in this magic place. I havent really had a holyday (execpt my permanent vacation ;) ). I have never been a HUGE fan of holydays – but somehow I just wanted to go here without any purpose. And now I feel a bit changed – really – it sounds like people look -> when they arrive to Copenhagen from Goa in thier brand new weird hippie clothes – but thats how I feel. Most importantly I have spend all 13 days with Linus – and I have really got to know him ad feel him so much deeper and better and we have been laughing for 13 days straight playing with his Cars. Very importantly I had my FANTASTC WIFE Hlin and Laura and my parerents here for 5 days – and got the BIG FAMILY FEELING. Also – My old close friends (and I have very few) have been here – and we got to reconnect – ohh that was NICE – it seems to mean even more when not that I get a little older…

Off course I have done 10-12 deals while I have been here – and the foundation of a new – most interesting might be Corpcom.com, Wamba.com and United Mobile (Due to amazing founders who flew in to present and have a sip of wine..) – but also Nagib from Orolix who was here with his amazing wife Andrea – they came from Brazil – and it makes my brain realease pure happyness – when I get all these impulses while I have gone into slower and slower mode – and even 3-4 times slept more then 6 hours – wow…

And to the really weird part – I think Im starting to open myself to more alternative thinking – and the whole idea of not only believing in PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE – might have a dimension of ENERGY to it – maybe ? Im not talking about starting to live under the ideas of astrology or believing in Aliens – but maybe there is something about the impact of the energy we are loaded with… (Or is it just the sun? – and will I get a reboot when I land in the tonight).. I nearly hope not. I just hope that Linus will be VERY HAPPY in his new kindergarden – and that Hlin is not sleeping – since I REALLY MISS HER ;)

Try to listen to: Ive Mendes – Casticais – thats as “Im on holyday and open to new waves..” as it can be.

Peter is one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in Scandinavia – unfortunately like Abba, Bjorn Borg, Volvo and Saab he is Swedish. And Sweden has violated all possible rules on his and his most known website project www.thepiratebay.org – by taking the servers and trying all kinds of tricks. Its off course VERY CONTROVERSIAL – but few people understand that this guys is doing everything with a big heart and 100% respect of internet. Like when all Danish ISPs (uhh this hurts) blindly followed the orders to start a simple version of the Chinese firewall – by blocking AllOfMp3 from central hold. When the first Swedish ISP followed and blocked AllOfMp3 – they contra blocked ThePirateBay for all users who where told to contact Costumer Support and get an explanation of why this mess. The ISP lost lost of clients – and suddenly they opened All the internet again.. Do the Google news archives search and you have hours of weird reading…

Thursday
Mallorca
BeachClub – cool place
C.B.s Villa – drinks and biz talk
Habour dinner – talks – bizz – fun – alcohol
Late talk – German and Danish politics – interseting
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Up early – fly to Monaco
Imossible to get around in Monaco with stupid loud cars all over
Monaco is UGLY – looks like the picture I have in my head of Mallorca 1984
At M.B.s brand new 55m yacht – got delivered 24h yealier – surreal – to big – 10 mann staf…
Talking NewsPaper – interesting
Talking M&A – learning – listing a lot (is that what I should really do)
Off to Dinner – with NC crowd and woofi
Getting a bit tipsy – talking solar energi and pigs
Going to MJs place to sleep
MJ & Wifes place is SUPER nice – and they are
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Up and to Airport – forgot my passport in Mallorca
Tjekking in via PDF
Posting on this blog – darn I feel lucky

I have decided to do a Video Cast Show – now the camera and editing tools is getting in place – and Im trying to find a format.

Monday I went with Hlin to Paris (Costes Hotel is just nice) – its just impossible not to be in love in Paris. We had amassing weather and where perfectly neglected by any waiter and service person in our way – and I still find it charming.

Quite some phone calls – on a trade sale of a company I’m doing
Good meeting with startup Trigami.com – where I will probably put in some money
Lots of sms with Loic – and Alain R
More trade sale activity
Lots of thinking about Orolix – whats the best strategy – how do I help out

I’m thinking every day about the value of a board and my role and how I help the best – and how little or much I should do – and weather my insecurity (VERY WELL HIDDEN) will ever go away… Telling myself constantly – that its not me role to create the companies – Im only support when needed and in some strategy (hate that word) – I mean in some of the crucial decisions.. But I also know that a startup is ONE BIG CRUCIAL DECISION.

We took a long walk both Monday and Tuesday – in the Rue St. Honore and Le Champs.. Im so happy to have email on my phone when Hlin goes into the 5th shop and I can just stay outside – pretend to be patient – but do mails ;) (I’m not sane). Had dinner – where Loic and Me where acting like pricks – by only talking about ourself and his and my projects – but also got a VERY INTERESTING insight in his role in the French election (he is on CNN all the time – not only because he speaks English – he is charming and VERY SMART – street smart).

made a handshake deal with ww.trivop.com – founders is JUST COOL
talked quite some to my close friend Jacob from SteelSeries
was thinking a quite some about BullGuard – love their growth
met a couple of fun entrepreneurs
mentaly preparing for VERY secret meetings in Wienna – on Wed.

Got home Tuesday night – Hlin went directly on night shift at the hospital (wow she is brave) – I just played with the kids and watched my beloved EyeTV – love recorded TV. Saw Danish Agger score for Liverpool against Chel$ea – good.

Got the Kids to School – and directly to the train to the Airport – got a bit angry with the lines in security – since all 6 people for the meeting inside the Airport got delayed 20min… 2 Very nice meetings – first on selling a company for a friend – talking legal – strangely I start to find it interesting – Ive always been surfing at these meetings – but now I was all over – and to be honest – NOT IMPRESSED BY ANYONE but my own good old lawyer Carsten who from the sideline avoided to major problems – that NO ONE ELSE HAD SEEN. Jumped on plane to meetings a the VERY COOL AND NEWLY RENOVATED Meridian in Vienna – stealth meetings all day – in a whole new speed and with people who just have been doing what Im trying to do for 35 years. Gentle, Humble, Nice, Interesting, Clever, Smart and No BS guys – who are all just what I needed for my new big plan (sorry t be secret ass). Wonderful Dinner at Bar Italia – owned by Manfred from BWIN – who unfortunately was i Milan watching the CL game (where I did not make it) – but we had fantastic food and his brother Gigi took very good care of us. The BIG guys left dinner to go back and negotiate – I stayed with a friend and walked back – inventing a Twitter Exchange plug in – that would reply to all emails above 140 characters – I will not deep read until later this week (hmm not funny in writing). Had some drinks

Was thinking a lot about the days outcome – feeling Orolixed :)

Tonight I was with my obesity startup and Im so fuc… impressed by the team – we will get a brilliant biotechnology guy in with some cash and one of the best Danish brains (AND SOCIALLY VERY STRONG) – and got a meeting with Weight Watchers during May. Cool guy the COO from WW.

WEBSITES i used this week
Pierre W Lande Actics (weird shit) Loic (good vcast) Google Finance, Mail, Spreadsheet, yousendit

Very exited about
Avanoo.com
Orolix Orolix Orolix
My idea of a Luxury Brand Fund
The Secret team from Wienna
How to recruit 10 top people we need for projects right now
HelloGroup – specially Thomas P from hellobrand

Thats it folks (sorry to use this as a diary – but I needed it – again)

I cant stop laughing from this video (140mb) – actually free from Danish Radio Podcasts (whom I was ditching hard in my last post). (Im so sorry its only in Danish).

“So it not my clothes getting
smaller, its me getting bigger!
I only realised that now” – Laura was kind of surprised to find out.

It just came out of nowhere while we where playing with each our computer in the living room. I personally clearly remember when I realised that it was actually NOT MY CLOTHES IN THE CLOTHED shrinking – but me getting bigger ;)

I just understood (a bit of) http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/
sorry to be so late :)

Im sometimes sorry not to be a techie – then I could play with this without having to bribe friends. Im looking at a interesting company now – and to really undferstand it – my friend Erik Xyz (he does not like references) is doing some due diligence – a therefor send me this Adobe Apollo Demo Video – and this from good old Lynda

My friend Allan Pichler did already start mumbling about this 6 months ago – but I was blank – Im actually very often late. But this things is THE KILLER TOOL for all students and 1-2 Mann Armies who wants to do an app or a small bizz. Im looking forward to see killer app and good execution on this stuff from cratives, designers and highIQ programmers – hopefully in colaboration.

New! Get FREE breakthrough broadband with Google TiSP (BETA).

From GDC – see this mindblowing demo of the future of crative social interactive gaming. Im blown away – spend 18min – ready – click here

Hej Morten,

du kender mig ikke, men jeg holder mig skarpt ajour med din blog. I den gode sags tjeneste vil jeg lige dele understående link med dig :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTcHQlcqcJU

Se filmen igennem, falder du ikke over noget i første omgang, så “spol” tilbage til cirka 00.58 sekunder i filmen :)

God dag..

—
Best regards

Michael Nilsson | Copenhagen

Im thinking a lot about what the Big Plan is – when you are involved with 50-60 ventures. And it looks more and more like having something to do with revenue…

The best technology event in the world – is now ready for 9.0 – come to Copenhagen – and give yourself the pleasure of NOT UNDERSTANDING EVERYTHING – and bump into people you dont met in other fancy smancy conferences. This is real. And a product of Denmarks Mr. Visionary – Thomas Madsen Mygdal

The best thing about Reboot is – that some people DONT LIKE IT – only in Danish

reboo

LundKenner is deeply involved in this Ian Hayward project – a SAFE BROWSER – read all on GigaOm. I love you Ian – for once I can explain to my mom what we have done – and it wil make the web quite a bit better.

(Also deep respect to the Dutch fighter Willem – Jan Schutte – who got us involved – design is off course by HelloBrand – what a eco system)

Hlin and Laura came to visit me in Barcelona after 3GSM* – and It was just fantastic – but saturday was totally ruined by the fact that Linus (who stayed home with my parrents) got “fever cramps” and was taken to hospital by ambulance – what a fucking shock… We rushed home – first flight – to the hospital – and Hlin took over from Granny. He got out and good again yesterday – Now eating like a woolf and watching Cars :) – Darn this makes worry… and send good thoughts to all the small kids at hospital – who had to stay ;(

*A tradeshow for the mobile people/companies of this world – where 80.000 people fly in to deal -> wheel and drink and mingle. Actually very nice to get a face on all the people one emails and IMs all the time.

I know jacks… about music but I would love to have some qualified guesses on ow many copies this album: Timbaland Presents Shock Value can sell outside US. Comment with your opinion ->

Zyb has proved that there is a new paradigm comming ;) – Go Tommy Go. – and Spleak has 300.000 people who say: “Hey” – everyday :)

Power is more important to me then I like – I bring converters before cigarettes… I got this IBM X60 – darn its fast – Intel Centrino Duo is speedy speedy. I did not get Adobe Acrobat installed – so found this nice online .pdf converter very convenient.

I got this blasting fun Spider video from Erik Andersson – and learned that you can get a Hooters Mastercard – ehhh.

I have been flooded with requests of initations to Joost – but since Im not part this venture – I dont have more left. I tried it – was impressed with quality – but content wasnot for me – and I only opened the application 2 times over the last month… I just wan FREE TV – FREE MOVIES and FREE MUSIC – NOW – Dear Google wrap the AdWords around and get going.

I got in Apple mode. Got a MacBook – blamed it on Laura :) – wow its nice and Im looking forward to try Windows on it… Got a iMac 24″ (just realised it has DualCore so it can Run Windows as well – hmm do I want that ?) with TV-tunercard for the sleeping-room – Im impressed with the record function – cabletv does not deliver a signal good enough – hope HDtv will come to Denmark before I die.

Have been focusing 90% on Orolix darn it looks like a killer – Soren just wrote up the thing – how amazingly nice to have a partner who can write a plan i 2 hours – that takes an adult life until 35 to make and execute – and had board meeting with Palora, talked with Jubble, Zyb, Spleak, Johannes on a Pier2Pier connector I did not really understand, some internet Charity called, talked quite some ti Martijn faboulous the energy boms from IIP, got a few clients to Hello … I use Google Spreed-sheet to organise my Orolix todos – dreaming about a Wiki but my aesthetic since does not allow me to use ugly techie wiki (stupid me).

Am I doing a diary here – or just feeling guilty not to post more often ?

PS. Linus got the old iMac – so no one is with a PC (or should i say Apple).