Busy Weeks - More & More, and selected

The past weeks have been incredibly busy. Sevenload, Qype, Oneview, and itravel are achieving their respective crests.

http://www.sevenload.de has an exploding user base, has just won nicole da silva and a number of young stars had their start on the platform. It is now by far the most used German Video and Photo Platform. myvideo is raising a stink and faking their user numbers (check by looking up a user beyond # 800), but have little to now recognition in the relevant crowd. Remember “the Tipping Point” and you’ll know why that’s relevant. Ibo’s Team is just the better team.

http://www.qype.de is growing fast, getting really useful, and closing a new financing round (no details, it’s all NDA’d) - but just this much: Qype is going to be the dominant player. Stephan is an incredible guy and has a great team.

http://www.oneview.de are preparing their gamma, and it will rock. Full google-kicking potential. We will get our revenge for having been the first social networking/bookmarking site (1998) and not getting the recognition because the business model had no market yet in 2000. Great team there too, with two additions to the developer team.

http://www.itravel.de - stay tuned for the first real long tail social commerce site, you’ll see more and more of the community in the next three months. In cooperation with Sevenload!

I’m really excited as we are preparing Upload! 2006, which we hope to become the coolest web 2.0 / social commerce / next big thing event of this and coming years.

BTW: we are desperately looking for developers, marketers, tecchies, pr guys/gals, project managers, business developers, sales guys etc etc etc…. contact me, or denkwerk @ http://www.denkwerk.com

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Tags: itravel, long tail, oneview, sevenload, social, social commerce, tipping point, Web 2.0

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.