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December 07, 2007
Buy, Hold, or Sell with Joe Cohen
Today we have the second in our series about what is on the shopping list for some of the tech savvy leaders of pioneering, and sometimes disruptive, startups active in Europe.
Joe Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Seatwave, an online marketplace for individuals to buy and sell event and concert tickets, talked to the alarm:clock euro at the recent European Tech Tour Web Summit in Montreux.
Cohen said he is thinking about buying an Apple iPhone, but he said what is holding him back is a worry about the responsiveness of its touch-screen for text input. "I doubt that I can achieve the speed that I can with the Blackberry," he said.
One recent new technology investment he isn't too happy about is an Asterisk VOIP PBX. His comment when we probed about the open source telephony platform was: "You don't want to get me started on that one."
The American born entrepreneur, AC/DC fan, and father of four, has been living in London for the past seven years. Two years at Seatwave. In the five years prior to that he developed the European business for IAC/ Interactive Corp units match.com and Ticketmaster.
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