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Centralway Media 15 Jul 2013 | 11:11 am
Establishing a Company Builder is a difficult task, requiring significant financial investment. It takes a great amount of work and entrepreneurial energy to offer an attractive workspace to 63 perman...
Social Verticals lead the way to sustainable business models 26 Jun 2013 | 10:49 am
The first hype at internet companies in the 90ies was the idea of a „one stop shopping“ experience for consumers. Yahoo and AOL where the dominant players and offered a mixture of information, communi...
Mobile Banking Reaches Critical Mass 18 Jun 2013 | 12:11 pm
According to a new study of the leading German IT organization „Bitkom“, 17 percent of Germans use their smartphone for mobile banking. That is 5 Million people in total. 15 percent of these smartphon...
5 things we do differently at Centralway 13 Jun 2013 | 02:05 pm
I just came across a blog post of a “fresh” – apparently – Microsoft engineer which states I decided to summarize a few points I learned so far in this job during last 8 months. This may sound like t...
Entrepreneurial mindset as a core value of Centralway 4 Jun 2013 | 11:49 am
Just before I started my Masters at the London School of Economics, I co-founded Sandbox Network with four friends in Zurich, with the aim to unite the most talented young achievers below the age of 3...
Google increases crowd focus with investment in Lending Club 23 May 2013 | 04:34 pm
Google acquired a minority stake in the online peer-to-peer lender, Lending Club. This online financial community brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors in its own marketplace. Len...
Software is eating the world 8 May 2013 | 10:44 am
In 1996, I started my first internet company in Berlin. In 1999, I founded Centralway and for 16 years its been nothing but the web. Some industries have now been partially transformed by the Interne...
Insurance Companies Miss Potential of Mobile Apps 2 May 2013 | 02:12 pm
The new report “Mobile Apps for Insurance 2012″ from the Swiss research agency myprivatebanking.com shows the app wave has reached the insurance industry, but notes the adoption of apps in this contex...
Our new mission statement 23 Apr 2013 | 12:59 pm
“We fund and build online ventures, and transform traditional companies into online companies.” Two weeks ago we decided on the new mission statement. Internally, we discussed and developed it intens...
Homepages: A Thing of the Past 16 Apr 2013 | 10:41 am
To create and build your website or to program your online shop quickly is not how it’s being done anymore. Things have been changed for some time now. Websites are software. And software is developed...
