Nils Normann send me this poster – and I love it.

I’ve been in NYC since Saturday evening – and had meetings with Goldman, Bessemer, Chris Dixon (wow smart due), was at a Wired 10 people dinner invited by Chris Anderson (The Long Tail mann) to talk about free – the topic of his new book. Found it very interesting – and they where all very interested in my NewsPaper story – and well its pretty much FREE.

Big thanx to Dan Roth for inviting

Try this and imagine what it can be used for www.20q.net
This is intellectual hacking to me.

Playing in the micro league of investments one cant keep the eyes off Warren Buffet – here is a super interesting piece on Buffet

And one more time – my favorite quote:

“When the tide goes out, we find out who’s been swimming without a bathing suit.”

-Warren Buffett, July ‘07

Im proud to be in the panel at this event in Dubai

– Here is some interesting info and Video on Dubai via Dan Roth (now Wired)

Faisal Belhoul, Founder & Managing Partner
Ithmar Capital

Ali Erfan, Senior Advisor
Ithmar Capital

Joe Lacob, Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

Khaldoun Haj Hasan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Ithmar Capital

Michael Queen, Managing Partner – Infrastructure
3i

Dr. Ahmad Khayyat, Chief Executive Officer
Emaar Industries & Investments (Pvt) JSC

Prof. Dr. Monzer Kahf, Consultant in Shari’ah Finance and Economics

Deborah Magid, Director – Software Strategy
IBM Venture Capital Group

Hany Shawky, Director
Global Capital Partners LP

Sanjay Sehgal, Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer
East West Capital Partners

Abrar Mir, Chief Executive Officer
NBD Sana Capital

Sarath Naru, Managing Partner
VenturEast Funds

Patrick von Bargen, Chief Executive Officer
Centre for Venture Education

Nicholas Parker, Chairman & Co-Founder
Cleantech Group

Hossam Shobokshi, Director  Principal Finance – Middle East & North
Africa

G Bala Subramanyan, Chief Investment Officer
M’Sharie

Dr. Ahmad Al Ghazawi, President and Chief Executive
Officer
Trium Pharma

Arno Castanet, European Research Manager – Venture Capital and
Private Equity
Dow Jones

Khaldoon Tabaza, Chief Executive Officer
Riyada Ventures

Ahmed Al Manasreh, Founder & Chairman
Sanad Venture Capital

Ziad Tassabehji, Director – Innovation & Investment
Masdar

Sadeq Sayeed, Senior Advisor
Nomura

Henry Makansi, Principal – Energy
Warburg Pincus

Gina Domanig, Managing Partner
Emerald

Jeffrey Leonard, President & Founding Partner
Global Environment Fund (GEF)

Alwaleed Abdul Abdelrahman, Senior Vice President – Private
Equity
Abu Dhabi Investment Company (ADIC)

Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman
Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Eric Chen, Partner
WI Harper

Max von Bismarck, Head of Investors
World Economic Forum

Morten Lund, Co-Founder & Managing Partner
LundXY, Global Ventures

Steve Smith, Partner
JS Private Equity

Dr. Adnan Al Sultan, Chairman
National Technology Enterprises Company (NTEC)

Andrew Tarbuck, Partner
Norton Rose

Christophe de Mahieu, Managing Director & Co-Head
Investcorp

Navin Valrani, Executive Director
Oasis Investment Company,

Al Shirawi Group of Companies (Engineering Services Group)
Pekka Maki, Managing Partner
3TS

Walid Bakr, Director
Riyada Ventures

Saad Bargach, Managing Director
Lime Rock Partners

Ayman Al Bannaw, ICT Business Development Manager
Noor Financial Investment

Chris Bongars, Chief Executive Officer
Cleantech Asia

Munther Hilal, Chief Executive Officer
Capital Industries & Investments

Karthik Ranganathan, Partner
Baring Private Equity

One more guy i really respected is dead – http://www.extent.nl/

I’ve been VERY VERY squished  in a couple of deals – and was a little scared wheather i could solve things. But I must say that everything I was ever told about how bad and cruel business and capitalism is suposed to be is WRONG. I have been heped out by my parters, my investments, my advisors, friends and my team – in a fantastic way.

Its all about LUCK ?

Seems that the Flickr community have a problem with Video

I made a deal with Laura that she has to jump 200 times a day to get the new toy ;)

CNBC just published this fine piece of selfpromotion on me ;)

OK – here is a story about a former colleague at one of my companies (not saying which one), let’s call him Bob.

One day Bob called in to inform his manager that he would not be coming to work that morning for personal reasons. Now, normally this would be a perfectly reasonable excuse and would lead to no further enquiries. Bob, however, was already known as the interstate call-in-sick champion with an impressive record as the least reliable employee with the most “sick” days. By far! Hence, a bit of prompting was called for:

Manager: What is the nature of your personal problem this time, Bob?

Bob: a close relative passed away and I have to go to the funeral

Manager: Again? … I’m sorry but I find that hard to believe. With the risk of sounding insensitive to your plight, please show me a copy of the obituary or some other form of documentation. I just really need to be sure that you’re not screwing us this time, Bob.

Bob: …………ahhhh……ahem …. Well, you see … it is not a family member… but rather a friend of mine who passed away. …. In a violent car accident… and I was also there with him in the car when it happened….

Manager: Ohhh – that’s terrible, Bob…That is just horrible – you must be devastated…… But, Bob, you do realize that the police keeps a record of all people involved in fatal accidents, right? And so, all I have to do is to call the police and get them to confirm that they took down your social security number as part of the routine investigation..

Bob.: ooohhh, weeeellll, then they would not find my name….. You see …..I was actually not in the car after all.. But I was in another car – and it was my fault that my friend had an accident.. you see,….. we were racing … and it’s was all my fault.

Manager: Wow – that’s really heavy, Bob. Why didn’t you just say so in the first place? Perhaps you can send me a copy of any newspaper clippings or a copy of the standard police rapport documenting the fatal incident – and then we’ll talk no more of this.

Bob: Okay……. Well, actually there never was any accident. The truth is that I am gay and that my boyfriend just died of AIDS. OK?

Manager: Bob …. please try to swing by the office. There is something we need to talk about.

Priceless

When i look at my little girl – soon turning into a little woman – I get a bit worried – where is the time flying? And how do I tell her in a nice and smart way that the grown ups and the adults have no big book with the formula? I still suffer from the idea that I need to find that book/list….

Im so impressed by the energy of this guy – he NEVER stops! In the beginning i was pretty sure he was not in it with the hearth – but after following him intensely for 12 months I must say hat he makes me feel like a lazy pri.. His blog and twittering is stellar.

Here is all about Jason – CEO of Mahalo.com, a human powered search engine. Previously the co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. On the board of social shopping site ThisNext. Might remember him from the days as editor and CEO of the Silicon Alley Reporter magazine. Partner with Mike Arrington on the TechCrunch40 podcast. Schedule About Facebook Twitter MySpace LinkedIn Delicious Pownce Jason Calacanis on tumblr mixx

OK – this blog was always meant as mental therapy – and actually not a media with 45.000 readers pr. month. Therefor this post.

My life is kaos – and I love caos – but today its fucking hard…

Its so much harder then I had ever expected to:

understand a newspaper from A to Z
do 80 other companies,
make a pro investment office,
get a fantastic new son,
be head of logistics for 3 kids,
be nice to everyone
remember to call my mum
raise 20mio euro for a financial services company,
do an IPO in india
stay in shape
satisfy my own starndars towards investment partners
think positive,
motivate,
be social responsible (what ever that fu…. means),
build a wave energy company,
call my amassing entrepreneurs enough
look into the mobile market,
sell a mobile app company,
eat lowcarb,
understand how marriage works
stay updated on facebook
stay updated on linkedin
do an ecommerce aplication in Russian,
laugh enough,
not dress to bad,
be a good father
be effective,
see my 2-3 friends enough
kiss my kids enough
remember to get a haircut
be on my blackberry 24/7
understand what its all about…

Well – who am i to complain – it my dream to be in my position – but today – ITS KAOS :)

Its been a 18 months now and growing like hell – and Zecco is now getting to teenage stage ;) – and so well run.

Last night my wife gave birth to our 4th child – a wonderful baby boy. Its better then any other experience in the world – and I feel happy from top to toe. We haven’t decided on a name yet – but I’m pretty sure we have to leave the L name concept (Lisa, Laura, Linus) – since we cant find a name starting with L. Suggestions are wellcome…

Kind of weird but fun (only in danish)

After taking over the newspaper – a lot of people have called/emailed me to ask for favors – with deals they want to get done with the paper. Im really sorry to have to state to you dear valued readers and friends – that ITS A BAD APPROACH. I love to help – in any way shape or form – but its impossible to put anyone ahead of each other in business ;) So please dont ask me to help your cousin the become a journalist or your friends friend to deliver the launch ;) – but feel free to shoot ideas and concepts like ALWAYS.

Hoe pe I dont sound to angry ass ;)

The guys – have been frontrunners in the FREE and SIMPLE TO USE WEB APLICATIONs. But also in the – “attutide like a royal teenagere (lets make google look like charmin uncles)” – game. But they always impress me – specially today when the sendt this mail. Its insane selfpromotion – and god stocking danm – on top the put a special offer. AND I LOVE IT – dont pass on any chance to sell (like web1.0). RESPECT!!!

(Even more fun is it – that we hired David HH when he was 16 – and already had that attitude).

Just had a skype call with Murti from www.peanutlabs.com – started jan 07 – and now doing 5mio$ rev this year. Please tell me stories that beat this (in comment).

Someone in the deal called them 4 founders – a bunch of unorganised kids :) – I originally invested in their social network – www.xuqa.com – now a 70k$ a month business in Turkey. This is such a seldom story – and now they are even doing one more thing.. So I can end up with 3 companies instead of one… Wholly cow… 3 for the price of one – NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE i think.