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After I left San Francisco last week I stay for a short while in New York, before I move back to Germany next week. The city is beautyful and it`s great fun living here. I spend my days mostly watching the typical tourist attractions, celebrating the clubs, meeting locals and inhaling the city spirit by meeting some locals. I also met some nice entrepreneurs with roots in Austria and Singapur…

The picture was taken at the Top of Rockefeller Tower with the Central Park in the background.

Some weeks ago Felix Haas, CEO of Amiando.com visited me for some days while he joined a conference in the valley. Some years ago he made his pilot license here in the valley while he studied at Stanford. So we went to the Palo Alto Flight Base and rent a nice small Cessna to fly over the bay area. We flew over the headquarters of Google and Co. and had a lot of fun especially when I took over the control of the machine…

The whole Area is pretty nice but for me San Francisco is definitely the best place around…

Tuesday night I spend with Manuel and Philipp, founders of Spickmich.de, at some web2.0-expo after parties. We started our tour at the office-party of six apart where hey had arranged a beautiful mini golf course - built mainly from macbooks and thinkpads…

Maybe that`s the reason why the vc-rounds tend to be a little bit larger in the valley

Anyway we had a lot of fun at the parties of Six Apart, Yahoo and Mashable…

Yesterday I met again Calvin Chin in a coffee bar in Palo Alto and we had an interesting discussion about entrepreneurial chances in China and elsewhere. Calvin and I got in contact when we both hold a discussion about “getting started as entrepreneur” at Barcamp Shanghai during september of last year. Calvin worked for several years in the U.S.-VC-sector before he moved to Shanghai, where he founded Qifang after he worked for a while as broker between Start-ups and VCs. Qifang is a (pre-launched) p2p-lending platform that is going to connect chinese students with wealthier individuals. I like the concept which seems to be both an attractive entrepreneurial chance as well as it could help millions of people to better their chances to get a good education. I look forward to meet Calvin again when I stay in Shanghai later this year.

Recently I uploaded the video of my farewell party from Germany:

My farewell party was integrated in the 2nd birthday of my party series “FULL HOUSE NIGHT” in Muensters No. 1 Club “Heaven”. I had a really great night and enjoyed the time with a lot of good friends and guests that joined my parties since years. I look forward to see you again this summer!