The European Pirate Summit - Cologne, September 10-11th 2012

After our first successful looting when we entered and robbed DuMont Venture, we tasted blood and continued with another venture capital company, this time in Munich: Astutia – Astutia Ventures takes minority stakes in syndicated deals in the early and growth stages. In selecting their investments, they look for excellent teams, plausible business ideas, and …

At the last Pirate Summit in 2011 Jan Senderek, the CEO of Popset was presenting his service at our pitch competition – without being backed by a VC, accelerator or whatever and under the name “Eeve”. Several months later Jan and his team entered the ship of Y Combinator, so reason enough to ask how …

Among others we consider the Pirate Summit as a fun way to increase our knowledge in every aspect that can somehow help in running a startup. Coding is one of our main areas we want to improve this year. Not only since Douglas Rushkoff’s publication of Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital …

Most likely the majority of ya associate a flight recorder when hearing the term “blackbox” and hope that it won’t ever be necessary to use it in connection with your name. Our new partner blackbox.vc is in many respects comparable to your imagination – they’re highflyers and not many know how they’re working. But there …

Not even done with the 1st dinner, we’re already jumping into the next adventure – a dinner aside of TNW Conference. The normal way (for a startup) usually goes like this: implement a “new feature”, track it, ask your key customers about their opinion to it, maybe also your board/VC company and then decide about the …