I don’t know why (or thats actually wrong) – but I just love Google so much. I love the search product and use it every day – I love the services and use the spreadsheet every week –  I love the business model (they should do a song at every business schools every morning). Enough love to a 450bio USD company.

Here is podcast #2 – before I got all the fantastic comments. Still a little stiff – but maybe this is natural to me – will do more casts this week and work on it.

AND = Bummer – chewinggum again :(

please comment – Im really fighting to make the format right – and I will do 400 casts until Christas – so Dear Values readers – tell me what you want.

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.

Just after the Skype cash from Ebay hit my account – I bought into a contemporary art collection with a really nice guy who already had collected. It has really grown – and yesterday he send me the list in ASCII – and gave me this IDEA TO A PIECE OF ART – showing the collection and where it is ;)

Yesterday I was with this very very fine mann – Eran Davidson – the big kahuna at Hasso Plattner Ventures – Eran said someting that stayed in my head until now. He was probobly the first guy I have talked to this decade – who said he was sometime nervous. I realised that this is the biggest tabu in business life – since WE ALL ARE ALL THE TIME. Nervous weather we are good enough, doing the right things, nice enough, smart enough, helpfull enough, rich enough, happy enough, carefull enough… Maybe its just me – Im probably suppressing my own nervousness so much – that this little clue really moved me. But after thinking trough why Im sometimes nervous – I feel much better.

Dear valued reader – close your eyes – do some deep breaths – and think over if and why if – you are a bit nervous today … just face it – think about it – face it – and wupti – dont you feel better ?

Just watched Lord of war  (and yes I go very seldomly to the movies – specially since I have 3 kids) – but I never heard about this movie. And its absolutely fantastic – crazy – superb pictures – great story – and as so often before Mr. Cage is underplaying and “voice over’ing” 100% fantasticly.

Linus has a very good friend – Alma. Yesterday – it took him 20 min to choose what t-shirt to wear when Alma should come over. And when he finally found the right one – he said: “Dad, I want to wait a the gate in our garden – and open it for Alma when she arrives” – thats a gentleman by the hearth :)

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).

I know this is WEIRD – to non Danish readers. But. But. But. In our little fairytale country – we  have  Public Service TV (non commercial – payed by the people in something like a tax – called license). And now the management – AND GOVERNMENT – has fucked up the whole idea by playing Architectural Emperors spending all the money on a GIANT GIANT MEDIA NEW BUILDING – and now has to do major cut downs – and closing the sports department.. Yes – the sports department of a public service TV station – HOW FUCKED UP CAN IT BE? The only thing (besides our dance version of American Idols) that can get the nation to feel united – in a time where we have each our own RSS Channel with 100% ego-driven media consumption – with absolute NO ICEBRAKING EFFECT AT SOCIAL LOCAL EVENTs. Hmm. Im off course very much influenced by my 15years as 100% sports idiot – but its NOT SMART – to swap  Architecture for Content – when you are a media company.

Dear Valued reader – sorry to be bad ass angry – on this sunny day in Copenhagen :) Its a very hard effort for my positive brain.

Im really hooked on this water deal that Im doing – more to come…

I have been watching more TED video – then I have watched television the last 3 weeks – its amazing. Highly recommended is: A Voyage of DNA – The Secret of Succes In 8 Words (must see) – Slowing down in a world built for speed (must see for parrents). I cant wait to get there for the next show… (If I can get in and its not too 1998’ish).

PS. I think the BMW ad/sponsorship – is the best placed sponsorship I have ever seen – I think I will run out and buy one – all hyped on on the knowledge – that I just got – and that I know connect to the BMW brand. Good Good Job – Mr. /Mrs. Marketing of BMW..

November 2005 – I had the pleasure of being in Delhi –  with Soren Kenner, Martin S and Mads – we had a treatment that I have seldomly tried by the Indian Musketeers: Bundeep, Rishi and Manish – who wanted to start an Advisory and M&A Consulting boutique. I did not really understnd what they wanted to do – but India was cool – and they are ÜberCool nd Nice and have obviuos extremly high moral and etichs. So it was easy – to choose to invest some money into their Induswiev idea. And as always – with rally good people – their fiscal year end report shows very nice numbers. And their references must make everyone impressed – plus they have a pipeline of clients that looks like a basket of diamonds ;) ost impressing is their productivity – the newsletter and India review is steller – see www.theindusview.com

Dear Rishi, Manish and Bundeep – thank you so much for letting me tap into this exploding market with THE VERY BEST PEOPLE = YOU GUYS !!

Dear Highly valued Readrs: If you need anything in India – og have any business to do – just ping these guys.

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UPDATE:
I have no comments. But – I was called 9 times this week by journalists who wanted to get a comment on the TechCrunh story Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser story – Danish Computerworld had weird story on it – even with a comment from IDG who’s conclusion was really wrong – and they still didnt get Googles take over of DoubleClick on their page.

I dont know what hit me this week – but since monday was off here I felt like compensating by turning up the speed :) So monday I spent with Km from IFU – just chatting and outlining how IFU can be used for some of my ideas. Also catching up on his latest venture – Trunk that seems to be rocking (I never believed in it – but love to be proven wrong). Really. Like I was yesterday – when the new Timbaland album went to the most downloaded album ever on iTunes – and I passed on buying the outside US rights for nothing. Later on monday I was spending time with my new Obisity Project – where David Beckman (fun link) was impressing me AGAIN – by showing amazing progress – more to come. After that I had a VERY IMPRESSIVE board meeting on Spleak – where Morrie (new CEO) just showed off his elefant size balls – NICE. And Durring that evening I tried to follow up on the 5-6 missing things with my legal guys around the planet. And finally had a VERY inspirering call on my CLEAN WATER VENTURE (also more to come). Wednesday was kicked of with Gunner – from our Newspaper (Nyhedsavisen.dk) talking over that opening of the Boston version next week and catching up – Im a Gunner fan. He is cool as a Iceberg and teaching and listening at the same time – I wanna learn that. After that – I had 3-4 M&A calls on various companies and a big Danish internet transaction – and talking to veroius funds about my waterproject. Then Simon Levene dropped by – to see the water ;) – and have a nice dinner – very interesting and SO nice to just talk venture, ventures, risk, upside, howTo and exits all night – plus ofcourse getting his family story – WOW. Thursday – CRAZY – up early – picking up Simon on the way to the airport – to pickup Morten S. Jorgensen (the Jabra guy) having a meeting in the car while drivning him to his meeting – trying to find a whole in a market where 5 conglomerates cheat old women (you guys what). After that finalising with Simon – and then having launch with a person who turned out to be the most impressive Danish Entrepanuer I have met – Preben Navision/Damgaard. I really really like him – and we just talked for 2hours straight – until I had to jump a car not to be late for my plane to London… London: Legal meetings, Bankers, Red Herring, Bundeep, ePlanet, Bullguard boeardmeeting, 2 startups – a short meeting at Joost (interesting news to be published soon) and then home friday evening – checking the 18 voicemails – doing email – having redwine and BullGuard talks with Heini and Theis on the plane – and then finally home – so nice to see Hlin. Ohh – this was nice – blogging psycotherapi – now I got that out of my body. Now – back to Laura and her 3 friends who will sleep here tonight.

Dear valued ready – this is a messed up post – but sometimes I need to tell my brain – what my yeas and ears did during the week :) – sorry.

“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 did start my blog in Evans appartment 25th of November 2001 – in Evans apartment – and his magic inspiration and selfconfidence (100% in line with his 100% openness, honesty and genuine self). He was alone – left by fancy smancy investors – and just ran the opperation out of his kitchen. He was negotiating with Nick Denton (moreover) during my stay. (My stay by the way – was setup by the everleading talent spotter Mygdal who got Evan to Reboot 3 (and I was just thinking – what a nerd – whats new about a small easy to sign into CMS for consumers) – and due to the fact that Peter Merholz was out of town (www.PeterMe.com dead link?))

For entrepanuers – or wannaneurs (wanna be entrepanuers)
Listen to this every week – and understand how much its about doing the simple thing, doing the stuff that feels right and NOT DRESSING UP FOR INVESTORS – by over painting the picture. These two guys – Evan and Calacanis (also spotted very very early by Mygdal and sold Weblogs Inc to AOL) are personifications of the BIG NOW THING live (not the next big thing). And Calicanis reference to Sequoia where he is now working – shows the link to the übber self of entrepreneurship Michael Moritz – seeds investor in Google, Youtube…. Full loop would be to have a clear reference to GoTo.com who patented the PPC/Bid model – and gave Google their revenue model…

This was not Pulitzer price writing – but Dear valued reader – its straight from the guts :)

PS. I find it really hard to tag my posts – but Im in fast learning mode – please give me tips.

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.

I find this VERY REVOLUTIONING – Google Maps for everyone video

From Mark at LundKenner (Saul Klein showing his marketing talent – now as VC)

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1122/

OpenCoffee Club is a new initiative – a relaxed meeting point for entrepreneurs and like-minded people interested in technology and start-ups. Come and enjoy an informal coffee, discuss your latest ideas and learn about trends in the market. You are likely to meet other entrepreneurs and some investors – if not, at least the cafe latte is among the best in town. We will have our first meeting in Copenhagen Friday the 13^th April @ 10 AM @ Café Oscar, Bredgade 58. Read more on the concept started by Saul Klein from Index Ventures on www.opencoffeeclub.org See you