{"id":1442,"date":"2008-09-09T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2008-09-09T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T00:02:16","slug":"lukasz-gadowski-launches-team-europe-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Lukasz Gadowski launches Team Europe Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Lukasz Gadowski<\/a> has just announced the launch of Team Europe Ventures<\/a>, a new home for his large portfolio of Internet companies. Lukasz is a successful entrepreneur who founded Spreadshirt<\/a> in 2002 and cofounded StudiVZ<\/a>, Germany’s largest social network (sold to Holtzbrinck last year) and is also an active business angel investing in Internet companies (he invested in more then 50 companies worldwide).<\/p>\n

With Team Europe Ventures Lukasz will keep investing in early stage European Internet ventures and will co-invest in later stage rounds (Series A or Series B). In the last twelve months Lukasz was involved in the creation of many Internet companies like Brands4Friends<\/a>, MisterSpex<\/a>, Absolventa<\/a>, Triphunter<\/a>, Playnik<\/a> and K\u00e4uferportal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also invest in very early stage internet companies. The companies that I invested in appear on the right of my blog. But lately I feel what is missing from the internet companies is concrete ways to generate revenues. The Google Ad model, or the advertising model, is mostly broken for anyone but Google. Companies like Fotolog<\/a> have shown that is not enough to have enormous traffic volumes but that revenues other than Google are needed to be successful. Fon for example would die if it had to survive out of advertising alone and not from selling routers and passes. Another model that has greatly intrigued me lately is a company that David Cantolla, a Spanish acquaintance of mine launch. It is the company with the rights to the child series Pocoyo. In their case as you can see the series themselves which are available in DVDs in many countries are also available in Youtube<\/a>. But that is because the money in Pocoyo is not in the series itself but in the fanaticism that the series engenders among children who like my son Leo who is younger than 2 then want in merchandising. Internet sites should learn from Pocoyo and find something real that they can sell out of virtual fame. Something like the T Shirts that Lukasz started with.<\/p>\n

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My friend Lukasz Gadowski has just announced the launch of Team Europe Ventures, a new home for his large portfolio of Internet companies. Lukasz is a successful entrepreneur who founded Spreadshirt in 2002 and cofounded StudiVZ, Germany’s largest social network (sold to Holtzbrinck last year) and is also an active business angel investing in Internet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t