Robin Dechant
@robindchnt
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Co-founder @getkwest (acq. by @krakentech_ ) to speed up the energy transition. Prev. invested in SaaS & Marketplaces @PointNineCap , now by myself.
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Some personal news: I’m stoked to announce that
@getkwest
has been acquired by
@krakentech_
and becomes part of
@OctopusEnergy
Group 🐙
Super excited about that and to speed up the energy transition on a global scale - now together.
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Some personal news 🤘
1) I left
@PointNineCap
at the end of last year. I'm super grateful to have worked with the amazing P9 team, the founders we backed, and the whole p9family.
I'm also grateful for all the good people I met along the way.
So what's next?
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Which companies have nailed down content marketing?
I'll start:
• Hubspot
• Stripe
Who else?
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What will be the "Miami of Europe" after the lockdown ends?
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Just received the first payment from my first customer 💰
Feels great. Big things start small 🚀 (cc
@ncsh
)
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Looking at my Twitter feed, I had a lot of FOMO not being part of this community. Luckily, this will change.
Super excited to be part of
@beondeck
founder fellowship
#ODF8
starting in February 🙌
Looking forward to it
@gonsanchezs
@ErikaBatista
@nateforster_
😍
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Having a
@loom
on your landing page is actually really cool.
You get notifications when people watch the video and react to it 😍
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Say goodbye to funding announcements in dollars instead of euros to appear bigger 👋
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We had the biggest tech IPO in Germany since 2000 coming out of Göppingen, a town with 250k people in Southern Germany, and somehow nobody is talking about it?! 🤔
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[Industry 4.0 - New Blogpost] 🏭 👀
I just published a new post where I take a closer look at the 225 European manufacturing startups from my landscape
by country, by category, by total no of employees, by money raised ⤵️
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Tesla is building a factory near Berlin for electric cars.
Ford is building a factory in Cologne for electric cars.
Apple is building a major chip lab in Munich.
Maybe the competition will help to wake up German incumbents to invest more in talent, not in machines!
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This year, the number of people who will retire is 2x the number of people who are entering the job market in Germany.
Let that sink.
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I cannot wait for the day that somebody will disrupt the notary business in Germany.
Unlikely it will be soon but the day will come 🙃
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The Dolomites are a place I always wanted to go and belong to the most beautiful mountains I have seen. Here is a short write-up about our trip 👇
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Say hello to our new office in Berlin Mitte. Come and stop by if you’re around 👋
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US: you can raise a rolling fund in the millions overnight.
Germany: we might double the tax allowance for employees to €720.
So sad, so frustrating! 😩
Last night I was tweeting about some tiny angel investments I’d made, and in an episode that belongs in a certain TV show
@shl
decided to go ahead and raise a rolling fund for me.
And... it worked.
By the time I woke up this morning there was more than $30 million in interest.
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The single best productivity hack for me is writing all my tasks on a sheet of paper and cross them out one by one.
No app can give you the joy of crossing out a task 😅
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Only one out of many reasons why I like Europe 🇪🇺
(This is now the Austrian-Italian border looks like)
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We'll have 3 tech companies in the German DAX soon: DeliveryHero, Zalando, and HelloFresh.
You can say about Rocket Internet what you want but they played a role in each of the three companies!
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I was invited to speak at a big industrial event.
All of the 20 speakers listed so far are men. So I just told the organizer that they either change this dramatically or I won't speak at their event.
We need to change this - urgently! 👊
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In the past 1.5 years, I’ve talked to 100’s of people about the European workforce crisis.
In this post, I want to give a quick introduction to the problem, discuss ways how to mitigate it and share what I’ve learned along the way. (1/n) 🧵
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I understand everybody wants deal flow but I think you can do better than this 🤯
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Very happy share my first angel investment 🤩
I strongly believe that cohort based courses will play a big part of the future of education.
And Maven will build the platform for this 🚀
👀 Wes, Gagan and Shreyans’ startup no more... We finally have a name!
We’re now Maven.
Check us out at
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Having a 30min onboarding call seems to be the new thing in SaaS 🧐
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There's a lot of SaaS companies out there.
Very, very few make it to the $100M revenue territory.
Good study by
@NotionCapital
:
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[New Post]
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 - 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝟮𝗕.
• Online Customer Engagement in B2B.
• Why building a community is important in B2B.
• Some tips & tricks.
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This. So much this.
Every company has reason to be, but I can’t help but feel that sometimes capital allocation is messed up:
- VCs are going mental on 10 min grocery delivery: $290m raised by 1 company today.
- Meanwhile, we announced $6m to give every cancer patient a fighting chance at survival.
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1) I wrote down some thoughts about the German tech-ecosystem and its fragmentation (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg...). Also, why I think this is a big challenge and why we need more collaboration between our different ecosystems.
A thread and post👇👇👇
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There is a growing number of people in Germany who leave their corporate job behind to start their own companies!
Exciting trend 🚀🚀
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2023 in Berlin 👇
CTO in Energiewendestartup job post
Gehalt: 50.000,00€ - 55.000,00€ pro Jahr
Good luck!
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If you’re interested, this is what I responded 👇
I understand everybody wants deal flow but I think you can do better than this 🤯
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Going to Portugal today for 10 days (Olá ☀️👋)
Being able to work remotely is such a huge privilege 🙏
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Did my first angel investment in manufacturing ☄️
Glad to support Remberg on its way building a vertical CRM for the manufacturing industry 🚀
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The first weeks
@beondeck
are really intense 🤯
Having the opportunity to pick so many brains is pure gold.
And doing this remotely is such a big advantage compared to any local program.
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Interesting report by
@Frontlinevc
about how US software companies win (and lose) in Europe.
Link to the report:
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Just sent my invoices for a guest lecture at a German business school (4h) and for a DJ gig at a small berlin club (2h).
I didn't do it for the money but guess which paid more😵💫
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In case you're still wondering if it makes sense to invest small checks into startups, here an example from early investors in Uber.
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🆕 [𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝟰.𝟬 𝗠𝗮𝗽 - 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘] 🆕
I just finished a big update to my Industry 4.0 Landscape, counting now more than 400 companies on the map 😯
A thread (1/5).
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Exciting day ahead 😍
Feeling really honored to give a guest lecture at Columbia Business School for 60 MBA students today about the digital transformation in manufacturing 🙌
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✍🏻 I wrote a new blogpost about two things I'm really excited about - B2B Marketplaces and supply chains 🤓
How B2B Marketplaces are changing procurement and why Covid-19 is one more trigger event for companies to re-evaluate their supply chains.
↓↓
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I decreased the number of big startup conferences I'm going to a lot - this year to ca. 3 (excluding p9 events).
Instead, I went or I'm going to:
🏭 the world's biggest industrial fair
🛠️ the world's biggest fair for smelters
⚓️ a very big fair for shipping container
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I'm super excited to share our first course 🚀👇
<< Digital Transformation in Manufacturing >>
I promise you that this is the most hands-on course on that topic you will find - developed by leading industry experts.
Apply here or share:
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The only document German notaries accept in digital form are their own invoices 🙄
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2y ago, I started the Future of Manufacturing Community.
1y ago, I handed it over.
Today, it closed down.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to it 🙏
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A student just declined our internship opportunity because of the "housing situation in Berlin" and how hard it is to find a flat.
🫡🫡🫡
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For my Newsletter, it took me 1.5 years to get my first 500 subscribers.
Now I got 500 new subscribers in the last 3 months.
Growth compounds 🚀
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Heyo April, let’s roll 🥁
✅ New Employee joining
✅ New Office
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I just updated my
#Industry40
landscape counting now ca. 200 companies.
🤓Blogpost:
📬Newsletter:
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I just updated my
#Industry40
landscape counting now ca. 250 companies.
🤓Blogpost:
📬Newsletter the Future of Manufacturing:
📈 About Productivity:
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I saw a VC today doing due diligence.
No Twitter.
No LinkedIn.
No random intros.
She just sat there doing due diligence.
Like a psychopath!
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5) Lastly, I will also continue helping early-stage founders where I can - mostly with time, occasionally with money.
This is what I love doing and there has not a better time to build 🤘
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"It's a marathon, not a sprint."
Feeling really energized after a few days in the mountains 💥
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You gotta love that 🙃
Setting a great example of how to react in such situations!
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Hola Lisbon - great to be back at my favorite coffee place 👋
Pumped for the
#p9foundersummit
and to meet all the
@PointNineCap
family again 😍
Woot woot!
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Being generous with your time is something I would wish to see more in the German ecosystem.
Every time I went to the US with P9 I was positively surprised about all the people who took the time to meet this random junior dude from Berlin :-)
It's a long game.
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Very hard to keep up with the number of new podcasts that get recorded every week.
For me "discovery" is still a big problem in the podcast space.
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Personal update - we're rebranding to Kwest 👋
A quick thread on what this means and what's behind Kwest (1/6) 🧵
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Why is nobody talking about the think-cell acquisition by Cinven?
88 million euros in revenue and 80 million euros in pretax profit in 2019 🤑🤑🤑
Such an incredible success story!
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On my way to Munich. Super pumped for our
@PointNineCap
event tomorrow together with
@atomico
about manufacturing the future
#Industry40
🙌
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It's still such an untapped opportunity to bring together the different German ecosystems at scale.
Not just a one-off dinner but a real community of founders in Berlin + Munich + Aachen + Karlsruhe...
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The Aveo team just grew by 100% officially 🎉 🎉
Honestly, starting out alone during the pandemic was a really tough experience.
If my learnings are helpful or you need some mental support, my DMs are wide open! 👊
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What will happen to the Berlin ecosystem in the next few years - given all the large rounds, secondaries, and big exits?
Recent examples: TradeRepublic, Gorillas, Flaschenpost, Signavio, ...
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One of our engineers has made his own natural wine.
If you didn’t know that we‘re a Berlin startup, now you know.
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GM - just did my first angel investment in climate tech.
There has never been a better time to start solving one of our biggest problems on earth 🌍
LFG! 🚀
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I just updated my Industry 4.0 Map 💫
When I started in early 2017 there were ca. 50 companies.
Now we're counting now more than 500 on the map!
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I'm incredibly bullish about companies that manage to build and grow communities of people who are not very engaged online yet, e.g. in shipping, construction, manufacturing 👀
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You know you work in a traditional industry if ↓
"Hi Robin, zoom klappt bei uns leider nicht. Geht Teams für dich?"
... na klar! 😉
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No other city can paint the sky in so many different shades of grey than Berlin in November ☁️🌫️
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Coffee tastes so much better when it's in a real cup at a table with friends in the sun ☀️
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New week, new milestone 💥
I just launched the Future of Manufacturing Community, focused on innovation managers (for now).
Interested? Check it out 👇
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Who‘s building the entrepreneur first for climate? 🤔
We urgently need to 10x the people working on building new infrastructure, protecting our waters, forests,…
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~ Industry 4.0 Landscape ~
I updated my Industry 4.0 landscape, counting now 350+ companies.
📈 Biggest increase in "Engineering Tools".
📉 Biggest decrease in "Analytics / Efficiency" due to acquisitions and shutdowns.
For more info:
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Yes virtual events are cool but have you ever been at the
@PointNineCap
founder summit?
Soooooo damn excited to see the
#p9family
in person again 😍🎉
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"One of the most basic challenges in building an enterprise software startup is that startups run on an 18 month funding cycle and a lot of enterprises run on an 18 month decision cycle."
@benedictevans
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This is Product development on steroids 👊🚀 Q1 did not even finish and
@RevolutApp
added:
🇪🇺 direct debit in Europe
😷 geolocation powered insurance
🤑 request money feature
⏰ price alerts
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Berlin tech hiring market def has changed. What I’m seeing:
- high response rate from candidates
- reasonable salary expectations
- ppl asking for office
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July is the only month of the year where Italy is the best place to go for fundraising in Europe
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Some people told me I should build my community for Germany only as a start. I didn't.
Focus for communities is key - but on personas, not on geographies.
For our workshop with
@mholst
next week, we'll have people from at least 5 different countries 🌎
Remote FTW! 🚀
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I just published “7 Reasons why Product Management continues to play a greater role in
#SaaS
”
#Productmanagement
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Just signed up for a trail run in the Alps in 4 weeks.
Wish me luck.
I haven't been participating in any race for the last 3 years but thought it would be a good move to do now 😂
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Imagine the CEO of a German public company saying this...
A nugget from Amazon's recent shareholder letter: "As we grow, everything needs to scale, including the size of failed experiments. If the size of failures isn’t growing, we’re not going to be inventing at a size that can move the needle." Solid read.
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If you want to make somebody smile today, record a 1min
@loom
and tell them something positive.
I recorded >10 Looms in the last 24h. Totally worth it 😊
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Sneak peek of my new blog post about building communities in B2B 👀↓
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