Archive for Archive for July, 2009
Internationalisation
Some people arranging a conference in Copenhagen want me to do a presentation on “internationalisation”. Perfect, I will spend half a day in the city and maybe link up with some old friends and colleagues. And internationalisation is always interesting to talk about, I have worked with it most of the time since I graduated in [...]
Funding reactions
Tuesday, we received a ton of media respons on the funding announcement. For example in Techcrunch, Paidcontent and Dow Jones VC Wire as well as a lot of local media in DK, NL, BE and IE. Almost across the board the journalists has been kind and very positive. They do see, that this is a [...]
Celebrating
You just got a great investor on board and had the bank account filled up – what do you do? Celebrate of course! So, that is what we did Tuesday. Some people would say, “hey, who cares – the money will make the owners (and potentially option holders to some extent) rich, why is that [...]
Trip to Belgium
Went to Belgium today with some of my colleagues for a visit to Matthieu. Very good day, good ideas and momentum. The Belgians are quickly picking up on the benefits of online takeaway ordering. And we of course had a bit of fun on the Eurostar. I really enjoy taking the train instead of being crammed [...]
Index Ventures & Co. invests in Just-Eat
It is with great joy, that I can announce Index Ventures is investing in Just-Eat together with Venrex Capital and some of the existing shareholders. As we all know, Index is a world beater in the internet venture industry, with great investments in companies such as Skype, Lastfm, Glasses Direct, Betfair, MySQL, LoveFilm, Netvibes and [...]
YES!
The big news are breaking VERY soon. We made it to the top tier of the e-commerce world. Stay tuned, and see what happened right after this picture.
Introducing Mat
After having spend a lot of time looking for the right senior marketing person to join Just-Eat, we have finally found “our guy”. It is Mat Braddy, former Toptable, Financial Times/FT.com and Gameplay.com. Mat is actually not the profile we looked for, but as soon as I met him, I felt we had been looking [...]