Bang! Seasoned Entrepeneur and Seed Angel blog for insight & discussion

Published at 05.05.2006, 19:26 by Axel Schmiegelow

Topics: Entrepreneurs.

Hi there!

R0cketrabbit is an Entrepreneur who’s seen the frist wave come and go, and is excited about the chance to do it all right this time.

In my 15 or so years of entrepreneurship, I’ve grown an organisation to 200 poeple, squandered millions of VC money, gotten my neck out of the sling without going bankrupt (but just quite), mourned the death of my friend and co-founder Felix Hildebrand, grown a startup, oneview, to 16 countries and 10 languages, scaled it back to 15 poeple, grown wise and then back to enthusiasm, and co-founded or -funded 12 companies.

This blog will try to give an honest, disrespectful, but positive account of my tribulations – I’ll be more than glad to share and discuss my findings – critics welcome!

Cheers

R0cketrabbit

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About me

As a Founder of denkwerk Group, I have been involved in marketing, media, the internet, and start-ups for the past 15 years. I have seen the New Economy come and go (and come back again). At denkwerk, we founded the world's first bookmarking and tagging startup, oneview, in 1998, and rolled it out in 16 countries and 10 languages. denkwerk has always endeavoured to make innovation happen and attract some of the brightest talents (and start-ups) in our industry.

As a seed investor, I am an active Board Member of the company shaping the future of travel commerce, itravel, and a Board member of the exciting local search and rating company, Qype. As an investor in armedangels and an Advisor to betterplace, I support endeavours to make the world a better place.

In December 2005, I met Ibrahim "Ibo" Evsan and Tom Bachem. They had just developed a ground-breaking technology for an online Video Player. With seed funding from denkwerk we incorporated in April 2006, and in Summer 2006 I became CEO of sevenload!. In 2007 Andreas Heyden, the RTL in-house Founder of our main competitor, clipfish, left RTL group to join us as COO, and Andreas and I developed a licensing and business model that will help shape the future of TV and internet media, while Ibo and Tom turned their technology sights to Social Gaming when they left sevenload step by step between late 2008 and Summer 2009. Today sevenload is headed by a brilliant management team which I find exciting and rewarding to work with and learn from.

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