Tumblr of Mark Kreuzer

I really love the Moo Minicards they stick out. Attending @swcologne (Startup Weekend Cologne) comes with 100 free Moo Minicards.

Ordering was easy and I only had to pay 4€ for shipping.

If you visit Seattle there is a new must do attraction. Take a flight with @kenmoreair in a #seaplane it’s simply awesome.

My story in short: I attended the Microsoft MVP Summit this November in Seattle and during the meeting of the OneNote Product Group one of the PMs suggested I could visit my aunt by seaplane after I mentioned that she lives on Victoria Island and I’d love to visit her but the time the travel would take is to long for my short stay in the USA.

I took all the pictures with my @Nokia #Lumia925 smartphone and they are awesome.

Ok I sure have to admit that the location made it quite easy to make some great photos, but one of the best moments was when a friend of me took a picure with her iPhone5 and was really depressed, because when it comes to low light pictures the Nokia PureView is state of the art.

When the cat's away, the mice will play. Nah, but I’m sure a little bit sad not to be around #appcademy right now.

Unfortunately I have to take a small Helsinki #appcademy break. There are some things I have to take care of myself in Germany. But I had to notice what I really love in Germany.

The autobahn J

My brother fetched me from the airport and although I was a little bit tired I told him to let me drive (ah sometimes it is great to be the older)

It was a really chilled drive back home and I put the car also in the comfort Setting (you can see it in the photo), and it is so great that you can go >200km/h just so. You know there are environmentalists that say that going fast on the autobahn isn’t so good. But that is only one side of the medal. I think the reason why Germans are the best car producers in the world is tied directly to the non-existing speed limit. Of cause this are just my 2 cents.

But I want to add 2 more: I really think the speed limit is something which is also important for startups. Not the one on the autobahn obviously but regulations concerning the founding of a company or a startup. I have the feeling that Germany and the Germans are a little bit slow and that is one reason why startup in other countries are quicker.

Niklas doing some last minute math coding for the backend of our App. time is ticking but we think it is pretty cool that we did a app in just one weekend.

You know our team is supposed to do some coding for the @appcampus this weekend. But in our team we liked the Idea of the Startup Weekend very much. It is basically a chance to apply what we learned so far in the first week of #Appcademy and now apply that to another project.

I’m like really happy that we had a great Idea yesterday and that it was a success. So what we basically do this weekend is to create a startup in less than 3 days.

So as I’m not a developer I cover the business plan and the marketing. For our team we found 1 more software developer and also 2 more designers.

So for this weekend you should join my other Tumblr as well and see what’s going on there. I bet you will like it!

For those who wondered how @appcampus actually looks like: Wonder no more watch the video.

I made this video the last days really early, that’s why it is so empty. I think it doesn’t really get the vibe of that place. Actually it is even hard to explain, you really have to be there to understand. All this people from around the world with creative ideas and all in the same process of making it reality.

Today on day 4 we first had a session where we talked about the business canvas from Steve Blank. We talked about it quite detailed. Obviously everybody could buy the book, which is probably a good idea for somebody who wants to found a startup, but the real value of the session are the additions and the experience of the coaches. Also the feedback of the other team can be very good.

Today at #appcademy we are supposed to imagine our key customers.

But with a complete different approach. Because when you think of a startup you always ask yourself what are my customers. Bit in the lesson today we take, that a little bit further.

Our task is to do a collage on which we imagine a customer. But it had to be a “real” person. So we had to came up with a complete story about their live.

So in our case we have the 16yr old student John Dorian, his 37 year teacher Barbara Streusand. And other players are the principal Skinner and the politician Quimby.

All teams were provided with a loit of magazines and enough white space.

You might think that is a pretty silly way of thinking about your customers. There were even teams who didn’t join, bur I already took alot out of it. Although it is a imagery person you really start to see some thinks you didn’t take into account earlier.