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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Based on your professional profile, the manetch matching algorithm globally identifies the best sparring partners for benchmarking and experience exchange among your peers. In our blog, we share what’s new in our company and what we find thought-provoking among the constant information inflow about topics such as internet, media and networking.</description><title>manetch</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @manetch)</generator><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>"It was a pleasure chairing the conference, informative, entertaining, everyone was engaged and made..."</title><description>“It was a pleasure chairing the conference, informative, entertaining, everyone was engaged and made it invigorating.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Roger Seshadri on the World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/53015769183</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/53015769183</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:30:06 +0200</pubDate><category>World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013</category></item><item><title>Junior Ruby on Rails Developer #ruby #rails #job #trabajo</title><description>&lt;p&gt;We are looking for an ambitious and curious Junior Ruby on Rails Developer to join our team as a paid intern. The ideal candidate will have the following core competencies and meet the following requirements:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Willingness to stay at least 6 months&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Interest in our business model&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Open mind&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Willingness to learn &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Enjoy working in a team&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Benefits include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Complete integration into our team&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Challenging programming tasks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Training on the job (pair programming, theory sessions, discussions)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Great colleagues&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Flexible working hours&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Fair compensation&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Possibility of combination of internship and final thesis (Bachelor/Master)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interested? Send an email to hello@manetch.com with a short resume and some reasons why you want to work for manetch.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/52296004234</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/52296004234</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:19:37 +0200</pubDate><category>junior</category><category>ruby on rails</category><category>developer</category><category>paid</category><category>intern</category><category>ruby</category><category>rails</category><category>job</category><category>trabajo</category></item><item><title>"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."</title><description>“Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Drew Houston&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/52090809276</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/52090809276</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:41:27 +0200</pubDate><category>Drew Houston</category><category>Dropbox</category></item><item><title>Clarifying how the #wcse conference matchmaking works because it recently came up a couple of times</title><description>Participant: Do I have to purchase any subscriptions for the conference matchmaking at WCSE13?&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
manetch: No. All conference-related subscriptions are included in your delegate pass. You will even benefit from the full networking concierge service. However, if you want to use any premium services for your professional matchmaking outside of the event, please purchase a subscription.</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/51475193555</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/51475193555</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 16:40:37 +0200</pubDate><category>Conference</category><category>matchmaking</category><category>subscription</category><category>World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013</category><category>delegate</category><category>networking</category><category>concierge</category><category>premium</category><category>service</category></item><item><title>Die große Klassenfahrt mit Philipp Rösler</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article116371093/Die-grosse-Klassenfahrt-mit-Philipp-Roesler.html"&gt;Die große Klassenfahrt mit Philipp Rösler&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote class="link_og_blockquote"&gt;Wirtschaftsminister Rösler und 100 junge Unternehmensgründer haben sich auf Werbetour für die deutsche IT-Branche ins Silicon Valley aufgemacht. Deutschland hat als IT-Standort noch viel aufzuholen.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week, manetch’s CEO Sara Maria Spiller visits the United States with Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/51120027367</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/51120027367</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 04:39:43 +0200</pubDate><category>Sara Maria Spiller</category><category>manetch</category><category>United States</category><category>Philipp Rösler</category></item><item><title>One month to go until the World Class Social-enabled Enterprise...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e9abac6bceafb55af325080255559434/tumblr_mmp1j4ypZQ1rs9369o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;One month to go until the World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/50266506718</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/50266506718</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:23:28 +0200</pubDate><category>World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013</category><category>frankfurt</category></item><item><title>We love great sales energy. However, sometimes, too many vendors...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fO9XC3tAbkQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;We love great sales energy. However, sometimes, too many vendors are just bad for networking quality. Therefore, the manetch platform and conferences are actively managed to ensure the right proportion of vendors and buyers. Check it out!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/50038173123</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/50038173123</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 23:36:08 +0200</pubDate><category>sales</category><category>crazy eddie</category><category>energy</category><category>vendor</category><category>networking</category><category>manetch</category><category>conference</category><category>buyer</category></item><item><title>On the importance of networking for entrepreneurs.</title><description>&lt;iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F78449276&amp;liking=false&amp;sharing=false&amp;origin=tumblr" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" class="soundcloud_audio_player" width="500" height="116"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the importance of networking for entrepreneurs.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/49104007734</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/49104007734</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:18:07 +0200</pubDate><category>networking</category><category>entrepreneur</category></item><item><title>"The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity."</title><description>“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Keith Ferrazzi&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/49001291951</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/49001291951</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:25:48 +0200</pubDate><category>networking</category><category>greed</category><category>generosity</category></item><item><title>We have shown with manetch that what works in dating, works in...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8UjcqCx1Bvg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have shown with manetch that what works in dating, works in business networking as well. There are so many great use cases up for grabs. How about easily accessing the best topics to speak about in your future networking discussions or seeing matching scores even before you are approaching people at networking events?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/48560974997</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/48560974997</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:10:53 +0200</pubDate><category>Google Glass</category><category>manetch</category><category>dating</category><category>business</category><category>networking</category><category>event</category></item><item><title>Introducing the networking concierge service</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Some manetch members already had the opportunity to test the networking concierge service in the past few months. Now, it&amp;#8217;s available as a premium service to everybody.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With a Concierge Upgrade, you will be introduced to your best matches by your personal concierge and profit from:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Introductory networking consultation and best practice briefing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;The concierge will prepare the meeting agendas and break the ice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;All meetings will be arranged according to your availabilities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Restaurant tables or meeting rooms will be booked in your name, if needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47979642490</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47979642490</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:01:59 +0200</pubDate><category>manetch</category><category>member</category><category>opportunity</category><category>networking</category><category>concierge</category><category>service</category><category>premium</category><category>upgrade</category><category>match</category><category>personal</category><category>consultation</category><category>best</category><category>practice</category><category>briefing</category><category>agenda</category><category>meeting</category><category>restaurant</category><category>table</category><category>room</category></item><item><title>"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."</title><description>“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;F. Scott Fitzgerald&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47463397075</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47463397075</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:28:47 +0200</pubDate><category>idea</category><category>conference</category></item><item><title>Highlights of the first 15 manetch months</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q1&amp;#160;2012: Founding the company&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Founded the company&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;First mockups of manetch.com&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sourced outsourcing partner for prototype development&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q2&amp;#160;2012: Developing the prototype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prototype development&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Explainer video&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Brought first team together (CEO, COO, Interim-CFO for business plan, Business Developer)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q3&amp;#160;2012: Launching manetch.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;manetch.com goes live&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marketing for first manetch.com user base&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lots of feedback from first users&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q4&amp;#160;2012: Pulling in first revenues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;First revenues with solution provider-to-decision maker matchmaking&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;First revenues with matchmaking services for event organizers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tested networking concierge service&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q1&amp;#160;2013: Launching the conference division&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Started conference division with World Class series&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Launched manetch.com 2.0 based on learnings from the second half of 2012&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Recruited CTO, CSO and second Business Developer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47126390726</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47126390726</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:36:57 +0200</pubDate><category>highlight</category><category>manetch</category><category>company</category><category>mockup</category><category>outsourcing</category><category>prototype</category><category>development</category><category>explainer</category><category>video</category><category>team</category><category>CEO</category><category>COO</category><category>CFO</category><category>business</category><category>plan</category><category>developer</category><category>live</category><category>marketing</category><category>user</category><category>revenue</category><category>solution</category><category>provider</category><category>decision maker</category><category>matchmaking</category><category>event</category><category>organizer</category><category>networking</category><category>concierge</category><category>service</category><category>conference</category></item><item><title>Listen to this in order to learn about innovation from Cirque de...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F66693348&amp;liking=false&amp;sharing=false&amp;origin=tumblr" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" class="soundcloud_audio_player" width="500" height="116"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listen to this in order to learn about innovation from Cirque de Soleil&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47124411953</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/47124411953</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:08:15 +0200</pubDate><category>learn</category><category>innovation</category><category>Cirque de Soleil</category></item><item><title>In the opening keynote of the World Class Social-enabled...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ced8a706d7e047c998f7d1fbd9cae28c/tumblr_mk6onhQoKs1rs9369o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In the opening keynote of the World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013 on June 12th to 14th in Frankfurt, Germany, Roger Seshadri, Senior Vice President &amp; Chief Information Officer for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Melco Crown Entertainment, a multi billion dollar gaming and entertainment company in Asia, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;will share the success stories from the implementation in integrated resorts and casinos, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;demonstrate how some of the digital (and social) technologies had helped the gaming industry &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;to transform new business models. Go to &lt;a href="http://www.wcse13.com" title="World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wcse13.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.wcse13.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to learn more about the event and register.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/46193339004</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/46193339004</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:21:17 +0100</pubDate><category>keynote</category><category>World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013</category><category>Roger Seshadri</category><category>Senior Vice President</category><category>Chief Information Officer</category><category>Melco Crown Entertainment</category><category>gaming</category><category>entertainment</category><category>company</category><category>Asia</category><category>success</category><category>stories</category><category>implementation</category><category>resorts</category><category>casinos</category><category>digital</category><category>social</category><category>technologies</category><category>industry</category><category>transform</category><category>business</category><category>models</category><category>event</category><category>register</category></item><item><title>"A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark."</title><description>“A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;John Paul Warren&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/45869594174</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/45869594174</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:17:48 +0100</pubDate><category>dreamer</category><category>navigate</category><category>dark</category></item><item><title>"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be..."</title><description>“I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Maurice Strong&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/45790041994</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/45790041994</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:07:22 +0100</pubDate><category>situation</category><category>conferences</category><category>specialized</category><category>smaller</category><category>focused</category><category>gahtherings</category><category>world</category></item><item><title>This video is funny, but true. Dear first members, paying...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lbaemWIljeQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This video is funny, but true. Dear first members, paying customers, speakers, investors and followers: We thank you for your support and help in building a great product and momentum.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/45543261047</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/45543261047</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:53:57 +0100</pubDate><category>video</category><category>member</category><category>customer</category><category>speaker</category><category>investor</category><category>support</category><category>product</category><category>momentum</category></item><item><title>Getting back the good old cash register last weekend was a good...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6ed9cb9aa5601e3794357b1a5b1f68e7/tumblr_miw4l42hm71rs9369o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Getting back the good old cash register last weekend was a good sign for us. After the first few months of pure investing into the company, we can finance further growth out of the cash flow.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/44150157092</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/44150157092</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:58:16 +0100</pubDate><category>cash register</category><category>weekend</category><category>week</category></item><item><title>From our weekly team telco on the World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013</title><description>Ulrike: The market is about to explode!&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Sara: Agreed</description><link>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/43678412261</link><guid>http://manetch.tumblr.com/post/43678412261</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:42:16 +0100</pubDate><category>team</category><category>World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013</category><category>market</category><category>explode</category></item></channel></rss>
