Internet Business in EU: Big Opportunity or Big Hassle for U.S. Entrepreneurs and Investors?

Short Bio Lukasz Gadowski: Lukasz (born 1977 in Prudnik, Poland) studied computer science and business in Paderborn, the University of Mannheim, the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL)and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He received his degree in business management from the HHL in 2003. Lukasz started launching companies 1999 in his second semester (OPM Consulting GmbH, bCode GbR), without particular success. Following these early ventures, he started gaining more experience through internships (Mundwerk AG, Procter & Gamble, Infineon) and work as an independent consultant (Cosmic Art, Siemens Business Service, and more). Lukasz founded Spreadshirt in 2002 while still in school. Started without external financing, the company currently has about 300 employees, with main offices in Leipzig and offices throughout Europe and the USA. Lukasz is a passionate entrepreneur and a well known private investor and business angel, focusing on investments in seed and early-stage Internet companies. His portfolio includes amiando.de, autoki.com, imedo.de, dawanda,com, StudiVZ (sold to Holtzbrinck), Hitflip.de, Rapleaf.com, brands4friends.de, epulse.pl, Smava.de. He blogs at lakattack.com as well as at gruenderszene.de (German).

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“Oliver Jung is a serial entrepreneur and private venture capital investor. He specializes in private equity investments in seed and early-stage Internet and mobile companies including investments in Adconion Media Group, e-Puls.pl, Imagekind.com, Xing.com, Smava.de, StudiVZ Ltd. (sold to Holtzbrinck), Webnews.de, Netmoms.de, Nimbuzz.com, Private Sale GmbH, Adscale.de, be2.com, seatwave.com, and Lokalisten GmbH. Mr. Jung studied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe. He subsequently founded entory AG, an IT and internet consulting company, which was sold to the German Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse) in 2001. Subsequent to the sale of entory AG, Mr. Jung served on the Board of Deutsche Börse Systems. He is also a founder and chairman of exxeta GmbH, an internet and IT consulting company operating throughout Germany and in Switzerland.”

Fax: +41-55-4201448, Mob: +41-79-4056489 Oliver.Jung@adinvest.ch