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

London: Emancipation gone wrong

Posted on 8 April 2012 by dselz

This past week I was three days in London to see early clients for Squirro and future implementation partners (The reception was phenomenal). Hosting me was Andy Honess, one of our business angels, and himself UK based. London – of … Continue reading →

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Usability Fail in London

Posted on 4 April 2012 by dselz

Here in London things are a little different… Yesterday we had a meeting in the fifth floor of an office building. Just, how do we get to the 5th floor giving this usability fail: Once we managed to get to … Continue reading →

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Today in: London

Posted on 4 April 2012 by dselz
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In today’s NZZ: A short (video) interview on Squirro

Posted on 28 March 2012 by dselz

Last week I gave a short video interview to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on building a startup in Switzerland and more specifically on building Squirro. More in German.

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The myth of overnight success

Posted on 20 March 2012 by dselz

Chris Dixon writes: Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit. Pinterest is one of the fastest growing websites in history, but struggled for a long time. Pinterest’s … Continue reading →

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Aggregate or get aggregated

Posted on 20 March 2012 by dselz

Source: Matthew Ingram on Aggregation Matthew Ingram discusses the all new Pew Research Center report on the state of media 2012. He points out that news aggregation is a way of life for ever more consumers. Actually more users arrive at an online offering … Continue reading →

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Today in: Radolfzell

Posted on 19 February 2012 by dselz

It’s the first time ever that I am here in Radolfzell. Mr Hoepfner, one of our business angels invited us for a creative workshop. And creative we are despite the weather (although that is about to get better, too).  

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Introducing Squirro

Posted on 19 February 2012 by dselz

This week was an important week for us: We are introducing Squirro over at my startup. More on our new blog.

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Europe’s Youth: No hang loose but lose lose

Posted on 29 January 2012 by dselz

On Friday I interviewed three great candidates for an opening as Marketing Intern* here at Memonic. Three very different career paths joined by a similar conjecture: All in their early thirties, from three different countries, finding that Europe has no … Continue reading →

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Once the corner stone of Switzerland the FDP today is detached

Posted on 22 January 2012 by dselz

Once the FDP – the (in a European sense) liberals – was the corner stone of Switzerland. Their forefathers founded Switzerland and ruled it for roughly 150 years. For the last twenty years they are in permanent (terminal?) decline. An obvious … Continue reading →

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