February 2012
2 posts
The Berlin Mayor, Local Politics and why they...
After Monday’s Print Focus Article, there’s been some whining about the lack of support by the Berlin Senate and Mayor Wowereit for the German startup scene. (here and here)
I pinged an insider and this is the sad reality:
“1. Zuständig für Euch ist der WIRTSCHAFTSSENAT - das ist in der Koalitionsvereinbarung so festgehalten. Sprich, trifft Euch Wowi ohne dass ihr zuvor dort...
January 2012
6 posts
Amen Voted "The Shit"
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Thanks, @pht We think so too.
The Official Amen Blog: Featured User of the Week:... →
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Introducing Ailine Liefeld (getamen.com/ailineliefeld), her Amens read like poetry.
Ailine feels alive when taking pictures…
Earning 87 Amens with her Walking is the Best Way to Explore a City she can see the stars from her bed in Berlin, likes to wake up with Sun in her…
Hello Etsy Interviews, Part 5: Douglas Rushkoff
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Last September, we interviewed 5 inspiring speakers from the Hello Etsy conference. This is the last one, where we interviewed Douglas Rushkoff, a media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. His writings appear on a lot of places and his online articles are a great inspiration. In this interview, Douglas talks about education, work, jobs, distributing...
November 2011
1 post
Gründerszene Digs Deep
Over the past few months Amen has been lucky to receive a lot of favorable, critical and honest German press coverage. We are very grateful to the amazing people at Spiegel, Welt, Zeit and the diligent bloggers at Techcrunch, netzwertig, deutsche startups, TechBerlin and Silicon Allee and to our amazing growing community of users. However, I was recently irritated by the unprofessional...