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April 21, 2009
next09 Conference
By Thorsten | Off Site | 2 Comments
Thanks to our successful submission for the next09 ticket pitch (by Sun’s Startup Essential Program) we will attend the next09 conference in Hamburg on May 05. This year’s next09 mantra “Share economy” perfectly matches our idea. So actually I’m wound up to a high pitch what we can get from the conference.
next09, Hamburg, Germany
The line-up and the agenda for the conference read quite interesting. Particularly I’m looking forward to Jeff Jarvis’ Keynote “The Great Restructuring”. Anyway, there were quite a couple of interesting lectures last year, and I’m sure there will be even more this year. Will let you know.
Tags: conference, next, next09
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April 18, 2009
Death to Plug-ins, Javascript will save us all.
By Thorsten | Observations | No Comments
Meyer talked about the next web from a front-end engineering perspective at TheNextWeb Conference 09 yesterday in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He explained how JavaScript will help to build the next generation web on top of the web we look at today.
“Death to Plug-ins, Javascript will save us all.” said Eric Meyer. And, yes, at Gate 53|10 we fully agree. It’s almost not possible to imagine a state-of-the-art web service without intelligent Javascript. For the sake of usability.
Interesting read:
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April 15, 2009
Social Media Club Hamburg
By Thorsten | Off Site | No Comments
I will attend the 3rd meeting of the Social Media Club Hamburg tomorrow. The meeting will be hosted by ethority and Proximity in the Atlantik Building in the Hamburg harbor district. The lead topic for this meeting will be Crowdsourcing. Among others, Tchibo will outline their ideas on crowdsourcing.
From what I heard about previous meetings this kind of club in Hamburg seems to work out quite well… manifest evidence that Hamburg has established itself as the epicenter of social media in Germany.Social Media Club
Hamburg Chapter of Social Media ClubUpdate
Video of the Tchibo Presentation [German]
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April 11, 2009
Pitch for next09 Tickets
By Thorsten | Cool Stuff | No Comments
SmartFork - smartfork.com
Sun’s German Branch of the Sun Startup Essential Program has announced a pitch for next09 tickets. next09 is one of the leading industry events over here in Europe (at least in Germany). Conference passes are quite expensive and we are on a budget. So we decided to accept the challenge - and founded another (virtual) company for them: Smartfork - just to get free tickets…Check it out:
www.smartfork.comUpdate
Sun’s acknowledgement of receipt for our submission at Twitter:
http://twitter.com/sun4startups/Tags: conference, events, next09, smartfork, sun
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March 24, 2009
Listed at Crunchbase
By Thorsten | Observations | No Comments
© photocase | nator
Gate 53|10 has been listed at Crunchbase!
Check it out:
www.crunchbase.comTags: beginning, crunchbase
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March 17, 2009
Snatches of Sunshine
By Thorsten | Company | No Comments
Today we all went to the lawyer (or to the civil law notary, to be more precise) to officially establish the company. So we now have completed the notarial act (which is good) but need to undergo the official further process (wich is bad). It’s quite a lot of paperwork… Okay, we are based out of Germany, so this is where Teutonic thoroughness gets into the game - seems as if almost everybody needs to get involved in founding Gate 53|10 Technologies and put his date stamp on any sheet of paper.
Anyway, it was a fairly sunny day in Hamburg. Not exactly a crucial factor but probably a good sign when founding a company.
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March 15, 2009
Roter Faden
By Thorsten | Cool Stuff | No Comments
© roterfaden.com
Like almost everybody we work with electronic calendars, address books etc etc. And there’s very good reason for this: They can easily be synchronized with any type of mobile device these days, you can easily schedule group meetings and stuff like that. Anyway, not a real surprise at all. However - and in particular when founding new company - you sometimes need to hark back to “Old School” tools when it comes to hand-written notes, travel documents, and similar (physical) stuff. That’s why we have recently decided for “Roter Faden” - which has turned out to be good call. So: Explicit recommendation!Check it out at:
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March 13, 2009
Viral Media Day Hamburg
By Thorsten | Off Site | No Comments
Viral Media Day
Invited by dsg I’ve attended the Viral Media Day yesterday. It was a quite tightly scheduled and productive conference with juicy lectures. A well-rounded group of speakers was not only parading successful viral campaigns but also revealed insights on concepting, seeding and - last but least - planning. Actually the latter seems to be the dark horse (at least for outsiders).
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March 5, 2009
Bar-grown Evolution
By Thorsten | Company | No Comments
Bar-grown Mind Map
Just thought I should continue on the topic how it all get started. Here we go with Part #2:
Once back home from our trip to France we spent quite a few nights in a bar in Hamburg to evolve the idea (yup, you are right - alcohol was involved here, most often Cuba Libre). Actually this status lasted for a couple of months (evolving the idea, not drinking alcohol). The one or the other Friday night we marked down some of our ideas on notepads we grabbed from the bar. Finally we were more than confident we collected enough fundamental ideas to get down to prototyping. That was roughly in May/June 2008.
To be continued …
Tags: beginning, idea, retrospective
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February 28, 2009
100% and 7/24/365
By Thorsten | Company | No Comments
Today was our last official day at Versant where we worked for quite a couple of years. So, as of today, we are capable of working not only with full commitment to our venture but also in full time!
Some weeks ago, it was time for a tough call at first glance: Quitting a permanent employment for founding your own business is not as easy as one might assume, totally irrespective of the potential value of your idea. Last but not least, because it translates into ‘Start-up Poverty’ instead of ‘Recurring $$’ in one go. However, as brilliant and at the same time prosperous ideas do not grow on trees, as we believe in the power of interdisciplinary creativity within the team, the tough call relatively immediately became an easy call. So we finally decided for advancing the concept in a professional way.
Considering the economic environment these days and the golden opportunity on the other hand, we are aware of the fact that there are marvelous, doubtful, funny, shaky, instable, nice, ugly, thrilling, weird, suspenseful, scary, nerdy, gorgeous and - most of all - exciting times ahead. And we are looking forward to coping with these.
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February 28, 2009
Born in a Renault Sportster
By Thorsten | Company | No Comments
Autobahn A8, Nice (F), Google Maps
The Future is Now. But how did it all get started?
The very initial idea for what we do now at Gate 53|10 occurred to Oliver and me back in autumn 2007 while heading towards Nice (Cote d’Azur, France) on the French “Autobahn” A8. Basically, we were discussing a couple of Web 2.0 services, if these are usefull and/or meaningfull, how we use the Internet, and what’s a pain in the neck surfing the web. All of sudden, we weren’t talking about existing stuff anymore but shaping a wish list on a certain type of service. So, actually we were sort of putting together the very first feature list at this point of time (we didn’t realize this back then though).
Anyway… as a matter of fact, a rental car - a Renault sportster to be more exact - became the breeding ground for what we do today at Gate 53|10.
Tags: 2007, beginning, cotedazur, france, idea, nice, renault, retrospective
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