Posts Tagged ‘printscreen.ch’
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Refreshing. Innovative. New. Creative. The sky is the limit. Startup fever. Brian Haven:
This new job is ambiguous. I don’t have a job title. The company doesn’t have a name. At the moment, there are only three of us. We don’t know what this will become, we only have a general direction. My office will be at my house… in Austin… and in cyberspace on IM, Twitter, Facebook… To many, this recipe might spell fear. To me, it’s comfortable. I thrive in the unknown–no rules, no baggage, no momentum to pull us into mediocrity. We get to build this from scratch in a thoughtful and disciplined manner. It’s my opportunity to bring my engagement ideas to life and the perfect time to leverage my background to apply a design thinking approach to the way we, and our clients, do business.
I had the joy to experience the reviving entrepreneurial spirit at yesterday’s public beta launch party at the Wuala office in Zurich. And I experience it daily when working for my own company – Printscreen GmbH. A great feeling indeed, and inspiring others, too.
Tags: Brian Haven, HRA, printscreen gmbh, printscreen.ch, SHAB, Startups, web 2.0, Wuala
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
As planned, Printscreen GmbH has been established today, i.e. on 08.08.08! :) Isn’t this a superb date for establishing a new company? I think so and I’m really glad and proud it worked out.
Thanks a lot to the notary and the jurists at HRA Zurich who made it possible!
Tags: 08.08.08, established, printscreen gmbh, printscreen.ch, Startups
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Note that this year’s Swiss BlogCamp, the BlogCamp Switzerland 3.0, will take place on the same date (August 29, 2008) as the Tag der Informatik (informatica08) and the tweakGrill, and at the same location (Technopark in Zurich), too! Of course, this is no coincidence :) No matter whether you’re a blogger or not (or plan to be, have been, are interested in the Swiss blogging scene, the web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, whatever etc. ;): Be there, I’m sure it will be an interesting event, again! (And attending the “Tag der Informatik” is a point of honor anyway :)
(Bloggy Friday will start at 8 PM, guess where ;)
[UPDATE 20080802: I probably can't be there due to military service :( At rather short notice as they managed to send the march order to an address that doesn't exist. No comment.]
Tags: BlogCamp, BlogCamp Switzerland, BlogCamp Switzerland 3.0, Blogging, numlock.ch, printscreen.ch, Startups, Technopark, Zürich, Zürich-West
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Well, there are quite a few blog posts with reviews of the recent TechCrunch Europe Tour Meetup in Zurich already. Instead of writing an extensive review about it, I’ll thus try to keep it short.
Personally, I highly enjoyed the TechCrunch Meetup in the Bluewin Tower in Zurich West and the gathering in the “Besame Mucho” lounge afterwards and met many interesting people. I wasn’t quite ready for releasing news about my company Printscreen GmbH (iG) yet, but it was nonetheless a great opportunity to network and chat with other entrepreneurs, organizer Mike Butcher, some of the co-organizers and media people. All in all I had the impression that a lot is going on again in the Swiss IT/web startup community (not limited to the roughly 40 startups officially presenting).
So, many thanks to the organizers (TechCrunchUK, Wuala, Doodle, NewsCred, Sandbox) and sponsors who made this all possible! Of course I hope there will be a second edition of the TechCrunch Meetup Zurich soon (it was so well organized and such a nice event, I’d like it to become a recurring, regular event in the Swiss IT and startup scene).
Links to some other posts about the meetup (incomplete and in no particular order):
Tags: Mike Butcher, printscreen.ch, Startups, TechCrunch, TechCrunch Europe Tour, TechCrunch Meetup Zurich, Zürich-West
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
After setting up name-based virtual web hosting for Apache, I’ve just set up virtual mail hosting for my new company, Printscreen GmbH, using postfix – and it was amazingly simple! :) For some basic virtual mail hosting using normal UNIX/Linux user accounts, all you need is a plain-text file (‘/etc/postfix/virtual’) that maps virtual mail addresses to the actual user accounts and two additional lines in main.cf:
/etc/postfix/virtual:
postmaster@example.com postmaster
# Uncomment entry below to implement a catch-all address
# @example.com jim
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
virtual_alias_domains = example.com
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
Then just execute
# postmap /etc/postfix/virtual && /etc/init.d/postfix reload
Voilà!
The nice postfix readme file for this and some more complicated virtual mail hosting configurations:
http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html
Another, possibly helpful howto (search):
http://www.freebsddiary.org/postfix.php
For setups using a MySQL database as a backend for storing the mappings, see Google. I currently don’t need this and hence don’t like to introduce any unnecessary MySQL dependency to my postfix server – remember the KISS principle ;)
Tags: hosts, mail, Postfix, printscreen.ch, virtual, virtual hosting
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
A big thanks to those who voted for the Unternehmenssteuerreform II! Of course I also respect the opinion of those of you who generally like small and medium-sized enterprises but think that this tax reform also benefits those major stockholders of large companies with mainly financial but little entrepreneurial interests. With the USTR II being the result of a lengthy political process and according compromises, that’s true. Nonetheless it’s a positive signal for SMEs and the Swiss economy in general!
Tags: Business, Politics, printscreen.ch
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
One of the about 30 something new books on my bookshelf – and a truly great one I just finished reading. Gosling gives a systematic insight into the matter of design and innovation. A very inspiring and useful, yet very concise framework!
“Realising Dreams – strategies for deep design” by William Gosling
Tags: Business, IT, printscreen.ch, Science, Startups, Tech
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
“The Art of the Start” by Guy Kawasaki. Not the latest, but a courageous and entertaining presentation worthwhile watching.
Tags: Business, Fun, IT, printscreen.ch, Startups, Tech
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