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Daniel Mattes (born 14 November 1972) is an Austrian internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the founder and was CEO of artificial intelligence company 42.cx and a judge and business angel on the Austrian television show '2 Minuten 2 Millionen', the Austrian version of Shark Tank, which airs on Puls4. [1]
- The Early Years
- First Business
- The Beginning of Jajah
- Capital and Financing
- Exit
- Charge-Backs
SINCLAIR ZX 81
With a shilling of pocket money a day, I could only buy the hard, old donut from the day before, if the school guard had not thrown it away yet. My parents could not give me more to school at the beginning of the 1980s. Longingly, I watched my school friends, how they could afford the unattainable for me delicacies such as fresh sausage or cola. Cola! How unbelievably strong a need grows when one sees no way to satisfy it. I was 12 years old and since I can think of a technology freak. The fi...
There was a vending machine in the school, a coke cost an unaffordable 7 shillings. So for me drinking only water or the free school milk. But unfortunately it was totally smoked from the lounge of the chain-smoking schoolmaster and as good as inedible. So the longing for cola grew in me. I needed a steady source of income and came up with the idea...
THERE IS ALWAYS A MARKET. YOU MUST SEE HIM ONLY.
Electrical engineer John Doerr walked down a street in Silicon Valley in the 1970s when he suddenly saw an unusual long line of people standing. What was going on here? Among the people were also friends and acquaintances of Doerr. What the hell could be so important or interesting that you could be pinned for hours between sweaty programmers? But these people had nothing better to do than throw dollar coins into an apparatus. A few primitive computer games bound her, making her forget everyt...
ENTHUSIASM. THEN THE REST COMES.
The starting signal was fired in the 4th district in Vienna. We rolled up our sleeves with a small but talented and motivated team of programmers. Still too technical-oriented, but driven by boundless conviction, we worked obsessively on the day and night units of the development of our system right from the start. Co-founder Roman Scharf was also introduced to us in this phase. He was an international business consultant and had already developed several successful projects. Even Roman saw t...
THE BRANDING PROCESS
Working title for our project was MPQ. But we soon realized that we needed a strong name, a brand that could survive internationally and has the power. For this term we defined 5 hard parameters that had to be met: We needed a .com domain, without the most important top-level address in international business, an internet startup is inconceivable. The catch on the matter: Even then, 50 million .com domains were forgiven. Finding a free .com domain for a good name looks like the proverbial sea...
At first glance, you might think an internet project is a website with a few features. But a big internet project is a company with all departments. From quality assurance to controlling, marketing or sales. This aspect is often severely underestimated. One of the key features is the branding policy and the associated effort that must be made to pu...
Every startup entrepreneur has to ask himself the question of whether he will eventually sell and withdraw completely, or whether he wants to continue working in his role. Basically, the managing directors are bound by the VC contracts to the company, otherwise they can not be sold. The management team has the most expertise and the most know-how. ...
First, we were happy about the great sales. Only then did we realize that many of these sales are lazy. Everyone knows that credit cards are used on the Internet. Everyone also knows that one or the other time credit cards are stolen and then the numbers on the Internet are used for fraudulent purposes. But hardly anyone knows that the damage cause...
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Daniel Mattes is an Austrian internet entrepreneur and business angel. He is the founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence company "42".
Apr 3, 2019 · The SEC charged Daniel Mattes, the former CEO of private mobile payments company Jumio Corp., with defrauding investors regarding the company's financial results. Mattes, without admitting nor denying the allegations, agreed to settle the charges with the SEC.
Daniel Mattes (born November 14, 1972), a serial Internet entrepreneur and business angel living in Silicon Valley, USA and Austria, Europe, was the chairman and co-founder of VoIP company Jajah which was acquired 2009 for $207 million by Telefonica and is member of the board of the venture fund Qino Flagship AG.
19K Followers, 3,889 Following, 86 Posts - Daniel Mattes (@daniel.mattes.official) on Instagram: "Entrepreneuer // Speaker // Author // Visionary".
