2. Today‘s agenda
Entertainment
Market proven knowledge
Detail
Deliver knowledge from
“Use Cases”
Insides on do’s and don’ts
Some cooking tips for “how to
make it a success”
3. About me
Today
Chief Commercial Officer for “Astra” a Satellite Company
Private Investor/business angel like ABOD audio books on demand” (Use case 2)
What I think, is most important for You…
I “tell” what I “really did”, success AND failures
I learned the hard way, so You can be more clever...
Some historic milestones
Led the field implementation of new Radar Systems “Faced Array”
Founding member of VIAG Intercom, today O2 Germany, hired over 500 people
Sold first ATM network BT(British Telecom) in Germany (BMW/Rover)
Developed and delivered first singing Teddy Bear(Use case 1) for Steiff with my own company
Board Member SME, Segment (Small Medium Enterprises at Germany Telecom)
Person
Male, 2 children, 50 years old, born German moved 14 times around the globe, first “innovation” 23
years
Engineer for Electronic Engineering; “Dipl. Ing.”, Telecom BA, business administration
4. Def: Innovation for the next 30 minutes:
A NEW Thing, Service, or Process,
(1) that actual works…
for normal, average, intelligent people,
(2) to which You assign a “price”,
(3) in such a way that a/enough “clients”
will buy it and it “earns” more than it “costs”.
=> delivers value, is successful
10. The „use“ cases
My Role in this:
Head Developer, Company Owner, CEO
Toy, „One Chip“ full interactive
High Quality Opera singing
Teddy Bear.
Product Invented, developed and sold
exclusively for „Steiff“
Status Today:
Product ended; all unites sold
Still active as service partner & spare parts
My Role in this:
Private Investor, seed funding Business
Angle to CEO and company
100% online company. The initial product idea
“Audio Books On Demand”, a self publishing
company for everybody ONLY! for Audio books.
Company found from scratch with 3 people
Status today:
Exited shares sold; Company active&successful
www.abod-verlag.de
11. Market Success requires a client !
Many ideas are really great, but never sold to anybody...
Too complicated, too expensive, never produced, nobody knows etc....
12. Somebody needs to sells Your product ....
1. Can YOU and WILL YOU sell it ?
2. Do You have enough margin ?
3. Do You have the right „story“ ?
4. What is Your „seller“
5. How much do You spent
on „telling the world“ about it