Max Niederhofer | Venture Capital - Latest Comments

Re: Addicted to Cash

Jim — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:58:36 -0000

Yes indeed. This is what happened at Panfu.de

I was caught in the wreckage and it was not pretty.

Re: Max Niederhofer | European Venture Capital: The Optimal Way to Board Plane Passengers: Astrophysicist's Computer Simulations Suggest We're Doing It All Wrong

maxniederhofer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:51:15 -0000

that's exactly what it is... primarily myspace, i think...

Re: Max Niederhofer | European Venture Capital: The Optimal Way to Board Plane Passengers: Astrophysicist's Computer Simulations Suggest We're Doing It All Wrong

mathew — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:57:47 -0000

sorry - meant to comment on the playlist.com post - operator error ;)

Re: Max Niederhofer | European Venture Capital: The Optimal Way to Board Plane Passengers: Astrophysicist's Computer Simulations Suggest We're Doing It All Wrong

mathew — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:56:51 -0000

max - isn't it that there are a lot of http calls to playlist.com generated from loading myspace and facebook pages with project playlist players on them? That's quite a bit different from some of those other sites that are more of destination sites.

mathew

Re: Volkswagen - that’s some serious volatility

maxniederhofer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:56:05 -0000

It was tongue-in-cheek, actually. Agree on the short squeeze and that hopefully there will be regulatory repercussions - transparency is necessary.

That said, Porsche has been undervalued long-term purely from an FCF pov and Porsche did unlock value when they first announced participation and then when legislation supported them. Not to the extent indicated by the chart above, ofc.

Re: Volkswagen - that’s some serious volatility

Oliver Rivers — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:48:00 -0000

I hope this comment was ironic. VW's share price has rocketed because of a classic short squeeze executed by Porsche. See today's FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9c3098dc-a593-11dd-9d....

Saxony owns roughly 20% of the stock, while Porsche owns or controls 75% of the stock, leaving a free float of roughly 5%. Hedge funds that have shorted the stock are finding that they've actually borrowed the shares they've sold from Porsche, and are now being forced to buy those shares back from Porrsche to settle the trade; it's this which is causing the ramp up in price.

What this disgraceful episode illustrates is how primitive and in need of reform is Germany's financial regulatory system. Porsche's share price manipulation (which is what this is) would be illegal in London or New York.

Re: Volkswagen - that’s some serious volatility

Oliver Rivers — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:47:46 -0000

Re: Battlestar Galactica: McCain and Palin

Flow TV — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:30:12 -0000

Battlestar Galatica

Starring: John McCain as Saul Tigh & Sarah Palin as Laura Roslin?

Check out the article on FlowTV.org at: http://flowtv.org/?p=2055

Re: Last.fm for your life

Luke Stanley — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:10:07 -0000

Or how about an "automatic FriendFeed" powered by Desktop Search technology? ;)
The thing about FriendFeed is, that it can aggregate last.fm, blogs, and other sources. But they don't make it easy to do it, and they have to negotiate with APIs, making them at the whim of third parties.
With ThoughtTrail, it'd just be one download, then you just decide whats ok being public and whats not.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts at Seedcamp. After we dumped YOUR memex pitch ;) - this is our new pitch:

We let users share and discover related content in one click with a user-owned activity stream, created using Desktop Search technology. Say your on Skype and your friend instant messages you a link to an amazing YouTube video. Instead of messing around, instant messaging it to the friends that happen to be online, and going to to the effort of emailing the ones that aren't, you can post it to your ThoughtTrail tumbelog in just a click or two.
As well as it being on your tumblelog, it can appear in your Facebook feed, your blog, and so on.
You can also, automatically get up related information with MiniBrowser.

Desktop search technology allows for a birds eye view of user activity. Knowing the user better and faster than any social network or outdated advertising platform possibly could.
Expect a whole new range of highly targeted dating and social sites, instantly leveraging dynamically generated user profiles for vastly improved recommendations and collaborative filtering.

It's the platform-platform play. The biggest play of all.

Skype: fluxorz
Email: luke@thoughttrail.com

Re: Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup

maxniederhofer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:49:58 -0000

Yey! Well done!

Re: Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup

Mike Butcher — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:22:37 -0000

There's also http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/leave-canar...

Re: “That is a great question”

Robin Wauters — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:31:21 -0000

Oh, you followed TC50 and Demo too?

Re: “That is a great question”

maxniederhofer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:16:07 -0000

I set myself up for that one...

Re: “That is a great question”

builtbydave — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:56:58 -0000

That's a great point.

Re: Dropbox

Fergus Burns — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:54:12 -0000

Hi Max

Check out www.putplace.com

Irish based - built using Amazon stack as well

Best Regards
Fergus

Re: Seatwave: from strength to strength

Koen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:05 -0000

Guess you were aware that someof the bad apples have gone bust...

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Re: Software

Marco Barulli — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:59:56 -0000

Max,
maybe you could be interested in reading "Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action" on the Clipperz blog.
http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/2008/0...

It's the result of a long discussion about free software and web application between me and the very Richard Stallman.
It contains a challenging proposal to combine the convenience of web apps with the principle of FLOSS and the privacy of your data.

Marco
http://www.clipperz.com/blog

Re: ACHTUNG! Seedcamp

tunesbag — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:45:20 -0000

Im Juni hatten wir das Vergnügen tunesBag.com beim Mini-Seedcamp in Berlin präsentieren zu dürfen - schon diese Veranstaltung war wirklich eine tolle Erfahrung und ich hoffe wir schaffen es auch nach London!

Re: Life is good

leafar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:49:45 -0000

I edit therefore I am ;-D
Currently migrating to real life.

Re: Summer Plans

Stef — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:38:01 -0000

i-lik?

Re: Summer Plans

leafar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:14:11 -0000

Oups.... But that's my best business plan. Dammit !

Re: Summer Plans

cballou — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:26:11 -0000

Dammit, Leafar, how many times have I told you not to tell people that we sell children here?

Re: Summer Plans

leafar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:26:40 -0000

If you stopped by the third in paris.
Go to the marché des enfants rouges at the angle of rue charlot and rue de bretagne.

Re: Sorry You’re Not A Winner (Enter Shikari)

ein ex straight edgler — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:23:17 -0000

boah. rockiges höre ich ja seit jahren nicht mehr aber enter shikari rockt echt! höre es gerade rauf und runter!!!

Re: Sorry You’re Not A Winner (Enter Shikari)

steaner — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:22:39 -0000

Haha, this is great. I'm always stunned to see you like these kind of bands and being a VC in an industry one wouldn't expect in the first place. Pretty cool. Hope to meet you soon again so we can talk about that. My Hardcore days are behind me now but still sticking to my all time faves and heroes (Snapcase, Refused, Madball and the likes).