Wow! Congrats to the guys at 6Wunderkinder! All that hard work has got them a shot at the big time now :)

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Now it is official. 6Wunderkinder raises another round of financing to build out their coming product Wunderkit. After a seed round by HTGF and a follow-on round by T-Venture, Atomico today announced the investment of $4.2M into the Berlin based startup. Atomico was founded in…

For those who have read up on this (Amen vs. Gründerszene) spat, it is interesting to see that despite some valid points from Gründerszene, Joel Kaczmarek is clearly willing this startup to fail based on his personal beef with Felix… The statement from Joel that the article was planned for a long time shows that this is BS - why would he have argued to post this particular post earlier? Would these statistics have been available? Clearly NOT…

I believe in Amen (so I’m bound to side with them) and would love to see it integrated into Places pages or online shopping portals one day, thanks to it’s no-nonsense approach to letting people express themselves - I mean, who has time to read full reviews? Associated Amens would give me much more info and perhaps I could Amen or Hell No a statement after checking into a place or buying a product. This is the big difference to something like Twitter and it really gives them an edge in terms of making something of the service and, more importantly, making money!

My message to Joel - get off your downer, because if you want to be writing about anything in the future, you depend on the success of guys like these… They keep you in a job!

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Amen vs. Gründerszene: Round 2!

Today Gründerszene, one of the biggest German tech blogs, publicly addressed the accusations Amen founder Felix Petersen (one of the most well known German internet entrepreneurs) made against their editor in chief, Joel Kaczmarek. Recap: TechBerlin had first…

What is happening to the online streaming market? It seems to be falling apart…

I didn’t think that things were looking up for Netflix before the silly spin-off idea and backtrack, but now I believe that their top man may have his days numbered with this latest one.

I am no expert on the industry, but Reed Hastings latest move looks like a massive risk.

Essentially Netflix is looking to become a modern web based broadcaster by the sounds of things… OK, so you don’t have to tune in at a certain time to see X, Y or Z, but the rest is just the same. With this model, a Netflix customer will need to trust the company to procure the best content, just as they do broadcasters - broadcasters, who have built their reputations over many years, years of backing projects at early stages to get the rights to the resulting content and hoping to make enough money to buy in the rights of the content they didn’t back.

It does seem bizarre… who knows, perhaps this is a new democratic leadership style - suggest something, let the people decide by quitting and then roll-back… Am I the only one to think that they’re losing it over at Netflix?