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November 28, 2007
alarm:clock euro Goes Shopping
Pioneering tech venture founders and investment professionals don't stop pushing the technology envelope when they go home from work. It's a preoccupation that flows into their off-time too. It is just one of the things that became apparent putting together a new series of articles for the alarm:clock euro, called Buy, Hold, or Sell.
Instead of covering the latest innovative business model out of Paris to attract venture capital, or a hidden gem in Italy exposed by a nine-digit euro acquisition price, we set out to expose value investments of the consumer kind, and maybe help to avoid the duds.
The task was not an easy one for our alarm:clock euro reporter, Valerie Thompson. That's because when people like Graham O'Keeffe of Atlas Venture, Henry Seydoux, the founder and CEO of wireless innovation factory Parrot SA, or Alexander Straub of Straub Ventures, to name some that we talked to, get her on the other end of the phone they have a one-track mind: to promote their investments, their company, or their latest product.
That's the way it should be, no doubt, but this time we had our own agenda.
Inspiring Post
The inspiration was a post by Martin Schaedel in Hello Martin. The Scandinavian business adviser and peripatetic startup executive wrote that he was craving an ultra compact portable Sony Vaio G.
He described it as "weighing in at wispy 0.89 kg... a carbon-fiber baby" and that it is meant to replace his Panasonic W and R series.
Because of who he is and the amount of traveling he does, what he buys is interesting and could be quite useful information for others with similar requirements, went our thinking.
Schaedel is a former partner at Lund Kenner, the Nordic "venture capital firm without the capital". He's currently working with FareCompare, a Dallas-based airfare information publisher that has become a media darling and a port of call for hedge fund managers looking for an edge on their airline investment bets.
Read on for the first in the series Buy, Hold, Sell with Alexander Straub.
Read - Buy, Hold or Sell with Henri Seydoux of Parrot SA
Read - Buy, Hold, or Sell with Joe Cohen (Seatwave)
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