He’s both the co-founder of twidox.com and the organiser of „Challenges and Opportunities in 2009“: The young German / British entrepreneur Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein. „In the recession it’s important to see if there are synergies and collaboration possibilities with other companies“, finds Nicholas. „Everyone has to pull through this crisis together in order to come with a blue eye out on the other side. In Germany, we’re lucky that it hasn’t hit us quite as hard as in other places. You can talk it bad and bad and bad, but in the end you need to think about what you can do to come through it. History has shown that in times of crisis the best companies have been started.“
Nicholas, his twin brother Daniel and Jan Deppe came up with the idea for twidox, an online library of documents with direct access to any documents that can be found. Nicholas points out: „Twidox is also an extremely powerful tool for publishers. We analyze documents, extract metadata and make basically any quality document available to the crawlers.“ The company focusses on large organizations within the European market and cooperates with Amazon, the United Nations and Creative Commons.
Being in the middle of its second financing round, twidox will be building up content as well as a white-label solution in 2009: „At the moment we have 70 hour work weeks“, says Nicholas „so there’s plenty to do... like assessing how users are working with twidox and going back to the drawing board to see how we can improve it. We will definitely roll out some new features. But our main task will be to speak to high-profile partners.“
More information on Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein, twidox and „Challenges and Opportunities in 2009“ can be found on our website www.tiburon-tv.com.
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So here you can also get some insights from a VC on how to deal with them in 2009.
Presentation is in German. Sorry for bad lightening, it's due to the location settings.
As head of academic relations Dr. Ingo Dahm knows very well about the existing technological challenges which are the basement for new business opportunities. One example is the data synchronization, for more just watch the video.
Presentation is held in German at the "Challenges & Opportunities 2009" in Munich, February 18th, 2009 organized by www.twidox.com.
We all know it that there is still money left, but that you only get it with a smart idea and if you accept a lower valuation. Listen to Felix Haas co-founder of www.amiando.com to learn how they changed their business model over the time till they find the right one which suits the market needs best.
Presentation is held in German at the "Challenges & Opportunities 2009" in Munich, Feburary 18th, 2009.
There are some more great hints for 2009, this time presented by Constantin Gonzalez, Principal Field Technologist at SUN Microsystems.
Did you know that SUN offers a great program for startups? Have look here.
They also organize the Start-Up Camp in Cologne on March 6th, 2008. Come and share insights with successful entrepreneurs, vc's and experts.
He founded QYPE and just took some steps back. At the "Challenges & Opportunities 2009" he provides some great insights on how he thinks you can succeed during this tough times.
My favorite one: "define how you can compensate for not being in the bay area" - think about it ;)
The presentation is held in German. Sorry for the bad light-quality, it's caused by the event-setting in a regular but very nice bar.
February 18th, 2009.
Yeap the question was mean, but the answer puts it all right. So no chance at all for rumors? --- www.tiburon-tv.com
Terry von Bibra introduces YAHOO's strategy of openess at the "challenges & opportunities 2009" in Munich, Feruary 18th 2008.
Presentation is held in German. Sorry for the bad videoquality, its cause of the bad light setting at the location.
Georg Schmidt-Sailer of TRATECO offers business development as a free consultant and is payed based on his success. --- www.tiburon-tv.com
He also promotes the crises cause it enables lower costs and more human ressource potentials available. "who can succeed now, will be even more successful when the economy is up again". But you need a real business model, even if twitter proofs the contrary. Focus, be selfcritical, networking, search the opinion of others, try to outsource.
Approach investors strategically with enough time in advance, learn about your investor, what are their goals, prepare.
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