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.

Thanks a lot to the notary and the jurists at HRA Zurich who made it possible!

(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.]

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):

• 40 start-ups at the first TechCrunch Zurich meet-up (wua.la)
• You Have Three Days To Check Out Wuala’s ‘Social Grid’ Storage (techcrunch.com)
• TechCrunch Zurich Meetup – The Videos (cocaman.ch)
• TechCrunch Zurich Meetup – The Recap (cocaman.ch)
• TechCrunch Zurich Recap: We Really Do Have Startups Here! (centernetworks.com)
• TechCrunch Zurich Meetup: Impressionen (doodle.ch)
• TechCrunch Zurich Meetup – keine richtige Nachlese (hogenkamp.com)
• Die Web 2.0-Gemeinde trifft sich im Bluewin Tower (bluewin.ch)
• TechCrunch Meetup Zurich: Die Startups (netzwertig.com)
• TechCrunch Meetup Zurich: 40 Elevator Pitches im 15. Stock (netzwertig.com)
• TechCrunch Meetup Zürich: Impressionen vom Event (netzwertig.com)
• tczh: 20 seconds of fame/shame (benkoe.ch)
• Das Techcrunch Meet-up in Zürich (bloggingtom.ch)
• Poken is Touch and Connect Social Networking (techaddress.com)
• Techcrunch I’ll take you there (digitalmoneyworld.com)
• live interview with Mike Butcher Techcrunch UK (digitalmoneyworld.com)
• Tech Crunch live startups. (digitalmoneyworld.com)
• TechCrunch: Du hast 20 Sekunden! (cassiber.com)
• Techcrunch Meetup Zurich (remo.fm)
• Techcrunch Zurich Meetup (trigami.com)
• TechCrunch – über 40 Internet-Start-Ups treffen sich in Zürich (faircustomer.ch)
• Techcrunch.uk event @ Zurich (Switzerland) (klewel.ch)
• Lessons learned from TechCrunch Meetup Zurich (zanox.com)

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