I love BullGuard – and specially the people. I must admit that I had a small tear in my eye (yes Im emotional and silly but I risked a A LOT WITH BULLGUARD) when i read this mail to the sales department today. Extremely ambitious and still human!! All I want to be.

Hi

Q4 looks like a very interesting quarter for BullGuard, with some fantastic opportunities and challenges for everybody. We have a new version of BullGuard and 2 new products in BullGuard Online Backup and SteelSecurity. We also have largest sales target in the history of BullGuard. Should we reach the target then BullGuard will be selling for more than XX million USD per month, as the target for the quarter is XX million USD. Our online revenue will be around XX million USD so it is highly likely that we can reach the target of XX million USD.

This will however not come easily, it will take blood, sweat and tears. I will be asking for an extra effort this quarter so that we can make this target and move BullGuard into the super league of security vendors. This will of course affect your partner as he and she won’t see you that often, so here is a short message for your partner:
——- send to partner start ——-

Your partner goes to work every single day to contribute to BullGuard’s amazing success and this is something we’re grateful for. The next 3 months will be very demanding for your partner and he will need your full support. We’ve set out some very demanding targets for everyone at BullGuard. We at BullGuard would like to compensate you for the lost time with your partner. Should we reach the target for Q4 then BullGuard will invite you and your partner to sunny Alicante in February 2007 for a long weekend from Thursday to Sunday. All expenses will be paid by BullGuard.

P.S. Please do not hesitate in asking your partner, on a daily basis, how close he is to target ;)

——- send to partner end ——-

I wonder everyday when I buy my The at the bakery (and bread when Im not to much on crazy non bread diets). I wonder WHY THE GIRLS IN THE BAKERY – who are pretty smart (in Denmark the Girls in the Bakery has a degree) – why dont their own little shop – rent a small location – stir some water, salt and flour – and put in in a own. AND THEN MAKE 90$ and hour instead of 13$.

“- Shut up OverEntusiasticEntrepanuer”
“NoWay Jose””

And I love this company

This is so well written and gives this stardust to venture capital – that makes one work even harder..

Richard Bunck – the founder of SøndagsAvisen – a VERY succesfull free weekly paper in Denmark helped me in 2001 when things where a bit sour. He just gave me 70.000USD on my face to go work on a concept – and I really got far with it – but well it flunked. Now I have entered the free paper market – with NyhedsAvisen – and maybe its lack of respect (well i think business is business). But is it ?

YouTube is the most fantastic website – I love it. And during this weekend i decided that I want to do something i that space :) (Again)

2002 Janus bougth a domain for a blog and was oftenly talking about making a blog – he even had one up and running for a short while but chose not to go live. Therefor I really look forward to follow this one – http://www.janusfriis.net/

I went to visit these people in Delhi – and its simply good karma clothing – no bullshit. Im not sure I really like the design.

Ditte, Nicolai and I had a fantastic day there with Moto. Cant find pictures on this PC :(

Link: emaharishi.com

I was looking SO MUCH FORWARD to newmediadays – an owervelmingly well organised event by our national broadcaster.But I had to stay in Spain since my first real Green/Clean Tech investment suddenly was there.

Im really sorry!

But Im so sure that everyone will understand when I cantell about the venture that kept me in Spain. Clue: Solarcells…

Nice link to who is who in the Danish New Media Scene (sorry in Danish)

My “king of the good life friend” Mik – is now in Beiruth to visit girlfriend Marie (who is doing a documentary for our national TV). See the post Hilsen fra Krigen here (only in Danish sorry). I would love to go there and see whats going on there – actually I had it planned before the last war came. Even though I knew it would mean that I would get real problems getting into Israel on my 2.3 trips there per year.

PS. Mik should get a blog: Barefoot, Hippie, Luxury and Goodlife…

I dont consider myself an investor – but a Ventureist (Venture Capitalist without Capital). And today has been a very hard day for my selfconfindence. I pinged Lukasz from Spreadshirt (my friend) to ask how his German Facebook Copy was doing (I said not to going into the company last year at this time) – and I got this answer

Lukasz to Morten:

Excellent. Studivz today has more then 700 K members, 70% of them online once a day. Still growing rapidly. There is a good chance that the first round angels will make a 50 – 100x in less then 12 months. Let’S pray bubble 2.0 does not burst too early ;)

Damn. Im not taking enough risk.

Yesterday the old Zecco competitors drop 5bio$ in stock value ( bank of America went to some kind of zero commision) – and now I hate that I did not borrowed a billion and went short in the competitors stick. Darn – that must be lack of selfconfidence from my side:)

Here is the new picture of stocktrading giants:

UPDATE: 112 newstories on Zecco on Google News

I get the quition quite some: “Well if Google pay 1bio for search in MySpace – then why not just buy YouTube before they want 2bio for the search ;) “

9 months ago Zecco was a bizz idea – yesterday our guys took it live with a power Ive NEVER SEEN BEFORE. And we got 20 times more accounts opened then we where even dreaming of first day.
Enjoy the video its about a free launch :)

HelloGroup has done everything on this – and gives me a wink that we have a good model for the future.

Im so proud to be part of this huge thing and Im about to lose my hair from the trouble we have launching. It’s getting there but we where too optimistic / darn / fuarck fuarck. It’s a long time since I was disappointed with myself.
*all weekend all nigths since wednesday.

A like seed – start-ups – and angel deals so much. Today I just understood something.

The reason I do so many deals is:

1) That you need many to find/hit the big one –

I will mainly stay with startups and ideas for min. 18month.

Yesterday was one of the few days in a long time where I was actually really worried and upset in my work-life. HelloDigital responsibility) did not get up – until 23.58. And I was more or less on that ALL DAY – in this weird way: Not really into last detail and why “the requests to the Papers CRM – returned wrong result”. And the guys at HelloGroup who had no sleep since Wednesday – where all totally trashed – and really sorry not to deliver… I hate those situations – only created by everyones over enthusiastic involvement with the bi-effect: lack of reality in time schedule… And I blame myself – and only myself for PUTTING SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THE HelloDigital guys. Its hard to be over enthusiastic and have the ability to get others with you ;)

Last update: The site is up – but all the cool stuff is still to come over the next days.

This is good hello work.

My friend Kohn from Dangaard – is part crazy and part dare devil – see the YouTube Viceo – My first upload ;)

Things are REALLY HAPPENING – Now with nifty website