entrepreneurial limmat valley!

dania, luci and myself spent a fantastic day at the second swiss blogcamp of this year; a relaxed yet structured information and networking event fort swiss bloggers and internet interpreneurs. many thanks to all the organizers (william, dominik, peter and remo)! it was great fun meeting so many good people and getting the chance to listen to all the interesting presentations. e.g. cédric hüsler‘s geoWeb preso, herbert’s preso on kooaba‘s object recognition technology, roman balzan’s preso on their project swissopolis, luzius meisser’s preso on Wuala’s file sharing technology, chris lüscher’s preso on facts 2.0, pascal müller’s preso on procedural and their cityengine (leading edge 3D content creation)! there definitely was a good load of entrepreneurial energy – no not in silicon but in limmat valley!

from zurich to lucerne

looks like our extended amazee team is complete for the moment and set for the next few steps of corporate development! the last missing piece was a talented studio that could support us with our communication concept and at the same time develop the platform design. i'm more than confident that we found exactly the right combination: mixer and netnode!

yesterday we met for our first session and mixer's remko left no questions out that were useful on the search for amazee's most inner characteristics - from "target age" to "the person our company would represent if it was a human being" - they were all discussed. after a very productive day of distillating our thoughts down to very fews words, i once more had to think of NZZ's advertising campaign stating "Die Arbeit an der Sprache ist Arbeit am Gedanken"; how right they are!

from belgrad to timisoara

high time ro report about our exciting trip to timisoara, romania, where we for the first time met the epoint team, daniel banica's squad of professionals we chose to do the programming with. the first contact was made via xing, and after some intense benchmarking with other drupal developers (in canada, singapore, st. petersburg... thanks prodosh!) we unanimously decided that epoint was the partner to go with: professional, sympathetic, reasonably priced and geographically and culturally close to Switzerland.

after a day and a night in beautiful and vibrant belgrad we had the luck that two local friends drove us over to timisoara; without a local guide we would have probably lost our way so badly that we would still be trying to get to timisoara today. almost no road signs and a lot of nasty junctions. luckily there were enough locals hanging out on the village squares, guiding us from village to village... and finally and thanks to our sportive driver we made it to our meeting with one hour delay only (already bad enough for swiss people).

back in belgrad we spent two more days and nights with our friends. it was a lovely experience getting to know all these warm and hospitable people and not less important: being able to participate in the yearly distillation of the local schnapps using the affectionately named "happy machines". it seemed to me that no fruits were spared... might be one of the secret propellants behind the recovery of the eastern european economies!

subjects-diary

setting up a business means doing so many things in parallel that you end up not really knowing what you've really done or achieved... for everybody who has the same problem: as most of business activities condensate in your mailboxes one way or the other i recommend you just read the "subjects" for a short recap: a week in my "subjects"-diary looks about like this:

amazee
epoint consulting & development: a new file has been uploaded
updated GUI
milestones for first semester - amazee rules!
amazee markeneintragung
unser gespraech am dienstag
amazee AG
job profile M&S
epoint consulting & development: re: hi lucas
migration
contract_V5
fette konkurrenz
termine
our youngsest exec summary
fwd: stellenbeschrieb
streber
how we should never ever promote amazee... ;-)
nachtrag zum Vertrag: xhtml
alles in butter!

so make sure you have a solid mail storage capacity to save enough "subjects" required to publish a decent subjects-autobiography one day.