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Husband, father, internet entrepreneur, founder, CEO, Squirro, Memonic, local.ch, Namics, rail aficionado, author, tbd...

(Deutsch) Der Niedergang der PubliGroupe

Posted on 19 April 2014 by dselz

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Innovationskompetenz

Posted on 26 September 2013 by dselz

Ist Innovationskompetenz ein Thema für euch? Christian Schenk, ein Kontakt von mir, erstellt eine Master-Thesis zu diesem Thema und führt eine Umfrage unter Schweizer Software-Firmen durch. Das Ausfüllen dauert ca. 10 Minuten. Bitte füllt die Umfrage doch aus,falls es für … Continue reading →

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The world is about to end (always say some) – It just does’t happen

Posted on 11 January 2013 by dselz

The world was bound countless times for the abyss. The last time just some three weeks ago on December 21st. Yet, it just did not happen. The doomsayers were wrong again and again… as this chart shows. Via Online Psychology

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Summly – A little hype dissected

Posted on 6 November 2012 by dselz

The other day I read about Summly, which claims “Our summarization technology is pure rocket science.” They got quite hyped by the usual suspects such as Techcrunch. So I decided to give it a try. I picked to news stories … Continue reading →

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Ticketless travel – In Switzerland and Pakistan

Posted on 16 August 2012 by dselz

Two days ago I read about Pakistan: “Railways to start campaign against ticketless traveling.” This morning a similar story in the NZZ about Swiss railways: “Easy Ride», ticketless travel.” I had to find out it’s not the same kind of … Continue reading →

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Freemium has run its course – our experience

Posted on 8 August 2012 by dselz

Recently I came across this piece from Rags Srinivasan “Freemium has run its course”. Here at Nektoon – that’s the legal person behind Squirro & Memonic – we apply both concepts. Memonic is run on the freemium model. The extensions … Continue reading →

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How to solve the Euro-Crisis: Greece to join Switzerland – Gritzerland

Posted on 6 June 2012 by dselz

No this is no joke. The crisis is too serious by now. And as some discussion over the weekend showed and Greece exit of the Euro and the subsequent Spain run would ruin Switzerland, too. It’s like a big seesaw: … Continue reading →

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Twitter Automation: Just Say No

Posted on 2 June 2012 by dselz

I just came across this post by Laurel Miltner and couldn’t agree more. Her main argument is, that automating tweets goes against everything what social media is intended to be. Let’s take this argument one step further: Let’s suppose that … Continue reading →

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Shopping Tourism and Buy Local go hand in hand

Posted on 27 April 2012 by dselz

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Squirro is faster than IBM

Posted on 12 April 2012 by dselz

Yes you heard right. Today I was travelling on the invitation of Vishal from Performance Buildings from Zurich to Lausanne to the CEO Collaborative Forum Event at the mighty IMD (A great event by the way!). Travelling with us was … Continue reading →

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