Things grow better with Coke

Well I think I need to explain. Im working class – and I have entered ventures since I was 19. I never had a JOB – therefor I never had a promotion – but selling a company is ALL THE ACKNOWLEGEMENT I can get – and I really enjoy it ! Off course the money is VERY NICE – but hey – Im already overweigth and can only eat 3-4 times a day – and I dont like cars and bling bling..

Thinking about calling my venture arm: Working Class Ventures… :)

– TheHornestStory –
Im a very very happy mann today.

I met Janus and Niklas during our consulting days – at NeoIdeo – where they took all business away from us ;( – then 18months after we sold Neo Ideo to Leo Burnett and I had Prey4 (the incubator backed by SparNord) suddenly Janus called me to Pitch Kazaa their new StartUp (with a 100% iTunes idea – I still have the plan – and can only say FUCK THE RECORD INDUSTRY for being som lame – and only daring to give the LICENSES TO Steve Jobs (iTunes)).

Then my incubator went out of business – and I helped Janus and Niklas on the Kazza a bit – Then they sold to Sharman – and I invented the BullGuard Concept…

Then came Skype – this crazy idea – that I never believed in. I told the guys – that they where just bored and had nothing to do – and I never believed in it…. Even though I helped pitching to Venture Capitalists and started building the brand – and eventually had to invest a bit – since they wheere out of money – LIKE IN – OUT OF MONEY. The rest is history – hard work and network – and insane high evaluations – and “in my opinion – THE BRAND CALLED NIK & JAY”…

Personally –
I live from investing and I?m not only happy becomming pretty much more wealthy – thats not really new… The good thing is that I can take away a lot of presure from myself.
Due to my PSYKO AGRESSIVE investment style – I’ve been havign very big trouble getting enough cash to invest with the speed of the last 36 months – meaning that I?ve nearly been out of money – but now I will enjoy a little peace – and PUT THE VOLUE TO 10 ;)

BullGuard, Consumer security software
TalkTown, Groupware (DEAD)
Doomtools, Spy & PopUp killer (DEAD)

Spleak, virtual communication

Zyb, Global SMS gateway

Aresa, BioTech detecting landmines

MobileWeaver, Software for mobiles

MediaMobsters, Computer games and more (DEAD)

Maxthon, the no.1 browser in China

Damai, the luxury hotel in Bali

iWall, upcoming photo service

HelloBrand, brand consulting

And just upcomming ->
Excitor, Secure mobile Email and Mobile Fleed management
Kontera, contextual advertising
TellItOnline, hardware with technology
The Lund&Partners China Fund 20mio$, investing in Mobile Media & Technology
Demib Inc, blogging for the better
Vacationvalley, 7000 vacationhouses for rent…
NEAR – Nano Enabling the Afrcan Region…

I hope to have enough self controle not to “over invest – but Im really gettting ready !”

Here are my friend LARS villas in Ibiza

The bigger one – with an incredible pool and outside kitchen

The brand new one – with true WALLPAPER style interior and CruiseBoat style super pool and souroundings ..

And Lundquists Villan and fishing paradise in Sweden

I work to much – and duringmy trip to Beijing – Martin “had to take the pictures”… Since I fall asleep henever I have a chance…

 – see bio

Saul Klein going Skype – via Revolution Web Site

This will be HUGE – http://www.iuneed.com/

Spleak has a good sense of humor:

Q. What is the definition of “making love”?
A. Something a woman does while a guy is fucking her.

Good ideas

Smooth smart Talk.google.com – superb integration of Gmail contact list

Evan W. (founder of Blogger.com) has taken in Venture Capital to his new company Odeo (Podcasting stuff) – and the VC?s are not just a fund with some pensionfund cash to burn – NOPE. Its a whole freaking football team of people with trackrecords that should be able to save the american economy – even if Bush drops an nuke somewhere – here you go The Odeo Blog: Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O’Reilly, Kopelman, Conway…)

Tim is ONE OF A KIND – and a super duper VC – here is a video that shows his style – wait for the sigging.

– also some pretty interesting reading
Tim visits Ukraine –

This is really strange – MS is still using Yahoo! Search Marketing – what even makes me wonder more is this:

from MSN ADVERTISING
MSN currently offers keyword-targeting search results in the “Sponsored Sites” section of the search results page at the top and bottom of the page. These are link placements that are limited to three paid clients per keyword and are available to advertisers with a minimum annual spend of $75,000. Please visit the Featured Sites section for more information.

80% of European cellphone users have been hit with SMS spam
www.engadget.com

Here we go – new concepts that I dont even understandOops Time to sell Skype! :: AO: – link “http://www.voipbuster.com”

I want this for the gadget collection oqo: hardware: video

Im super impressen by my 9300 – the browser works very well. And this post is done from a
LondonCap :)

I want to suggest that investors should be obliged to answer PROSPECTS WHO PRESENTS to them.

I say this off course because Im presenting to a lot of investors these days :) – Juli – Investor (No.1 in Sweden)
August – Pitange(No.1 in Israel)
August – 3i (Biggest in UK)

/morten

Goodbye Kodak, Agfa, Fuji old school picture developer companies – LG presents the Dica Phones, LG-SV550/KV5500/LP5500, in Korea. They are basically 5MP digital cameras in which they fitted a phone – via www.akihabaranews.com.