first Days
The trip started as early as 23 February with the night check-in of the case with Lufthansa at the Cologne train station. The feeling during de next trip was not mistaken when I was declared at the airport of San Francisco: "Martin Müller contact the Information Desk.
The suitcase had not arrived because he had not done it in some way from the train to Frankfurt flight, he came to Munich with the evening's United machine, and yet was in the hotel by 22 clock. After all, good service, I do not even need him to carry.
Back to Frankfurt, a last visit to the Lufthansa business lounge as I from 1. March'm not a frequent traveler more. Marco Knöpp, another Invited by LinkedIn called me, we met at the gate and the two security checks went by quickly.
Upgrades to business class was not possible because all business class seats were sold, the machine was almost completely full. But the place look very back of the hall was pretty good, I was sitting next to a Russian nuclear physicist and we have focused on the 11 - hour flight to talk very well.
stewardess is to be a nice thing. My favorite flight attendant, for example, is in real life, psychology student and worked part-time. On this flight, you stay until Monday in San Francisco (two nights) and thus have a half days to look at the city. Then it goes back to Frankfurt on Monday, so that the machine is for the crew of the California air all four working days.
The third Invited arrived at gate B22 in Frankfurt to us, however, was Oliver in Kassel (the fourth Invited) not there, we learned that he only realized the day before, that with a passport can not travel to the USA and a passport was not ...
The 5th Invited we met in San Francisco at the baggage claim, so we were complete. Dwight Cribb is an IT headhunter and knew Quest International also very good because a friend of his worked there sometimes.
Liz (International VP of LinkedIn) expected to deliver killed at the entrance and we were taken to the hotel in Palo Alto, about 20 minutes.
is where the heart of the new economy, Google, PayPal, eBay, LinkeIn, all have their offices here. In a street all Venture Capital Companies is located right next to each other, to bring billions of investment, the new company up and running. We were told that it is present in the restaurants or on the tram actually just over the ears to find out what the competition is planning so when others speak so random with your colleagues while eating or driving to work in the public about what will probably happen often ...
Sarik Weber, former VP Sales of Xing is also now (for other reasons) in San Francisco. The world in this industry is really small.
LinkedIn has existed since 2003, is about 70 people there, it is the venture capital investors. It has never been marketing activities, this Germany-promotion, with which we are here, was the first action. The 10 million members are derived from natural growth. The German side will come, but not yet in March 2007 because Guerike Constantine, one of the two founders, to the end of December, LinkedIn has left, but still stands as a consultant. We will meet him in the week.
HOTEL:
A Modern, 5 Star House, all first class suite, a king-size bed, huge flat screen in the room (and even one on the toilet), each request was read to us from the eyes. Was it the adapter for the notebook, the one-way trunks for the pool or the transcript of a message and the immediate bringing this same paper by the room.
with Liz, we spent the afternoon at the hotel bar to get to know us first time and to get an overview of the week. She gave us a guide Silicon Valley and a credit card (charged with 60 U.S. per day) for our expenses in that week.
In the evening, Doris (former colleague of mine in from at McCue Corporation Los Angeles) and your friend Kurt to visit the hotel. We went to dinner and were delighted to see us after three years again. In 2008 she wants to go on holiday in Greece, then we will meet there again.
(perceived clock Sunday morning, 5) by 20 clock time then the first day came to an end.
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