About onkel-mario

Born in the south of Germany, I have spend a wonderful childhood in Weingarten, a nice town in the beautiful area of "Oberschwaben" close to the Alps and the Lake of Constance. After the "Abitur" I went to Berlin to study communications at the University of the Arts, and learn about life in the city. Cycling and partying around our capital, I got involved in interesting projects such as "Töchter und Söhne" and "Initiative Sozialmarketing" and others. After almost six years there it is still a place, where I feel at home. During studies I have spend some time working in advertising in Hamburg and marketing in Paris and after my thesis on "brand valuation" I still did not want my studies to be finished. Hence I started a (pre-ex) MBA at the ESCP-EAP (Paris), which took me to Delhi and London. And thats where I got involved in the very birth of the kindo family. I work on the german-speaking markets (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and am a little bit involved in branding as well ;-)

http://www.ruckh.org/blog/

Posts by onkel-marioRSS

  • The oldest family tree in the world

    What some German archeologists have discovered might well be seen as the oldest family tree ever. A teacher from Förste and an engineer from Nienstedt in the German “Harz” region descent from the same caveman, who lived in the valley as much as 3000 years ago.
    Archeologists had found skeletons from the Bronze Age in [...]

  • Kindo stars at the Techcrunch and Webrazzi Meetup in Istanbul

    Two weeks ago Techcrunch and the Turkish website Webrazzi were holding a Internet and startup event in Istanbul and Kindo was part of it. Our Turkish colleague Oguzhan was invited to the Istanbul meetup which is part of a whole European tour initiated by Techcrunch UK host Mike Butcher.
    So Oguzhan – who is also [...]

  • Family holidays

    Hopefully, some of you have noticed me being absent from this blog in the last weeks (You should have noticed if you read the German blog as well). I have been on sumer holiday in South America. Our plan was to visit the sister of my girlfriend in Ecuador and then fly with her to [...]

  • What about your mum?

    Have you voted already about how often you are in touch with your mum? If not, do so now, it will only take a second. You scroll down a bit, you’ll stumble upon the poll in the right sidebar (looking like that pic here), tick on the right radio button and click vote. And don’t [...]

  • Our Facebook page for Kindo supporters!

    Are you using facebook to stay in touch with your friends?
    You should join the Kindo fan page then! It’s another place for you to mingle with the Kindo team, drop us a line and get the latest news from the Kindo family.
    And finally some of your friends may be happy, if you tell them [...]

  • Kindo at Barcamp Bodensee

    When I have heard about the Barcamp at Lake Constance I knew straight away that I wanted to go there. After all I grew up only 20 kilometers from the lake.
    Finally the barcamp took place yesterday and today at the brand new venue of Zeppelin University. Some of the top bloggers and internet thinkers around [...]

  • Kindo is looking for new family members

    Kindo is looking for smart, entrepreneurial, and international candidates with a positive attitude to join our team in London for an internship (and possibly continuing part or full-time positions). 
      
    About us:
    We’re an Internet startup based in Putney, west London, funded by some of London’s best business angels and VC-firms. We’re currently around 15 people, but are looking to expand.  
    Kindo is “where families get [...]

  • Gratis stamtræ på Kindo – Welcome to the Family, Denmark!

    Kindo just launched in Danish! Our last name research pages for Denmark have been live for quite some time now, and finally we have launched Kindo in Danish! It should soon be available via http://kindo.dk as well.
    The new language was made possible by Aske and Brian who have translated the whole website voluntarily. Brian had [...]

  • Teaming up with .name

    Getting emailaddresses is easy, but the free ones have free domains and hence might look a bit cheap or are hard to remember. Having your surname as a domain can be nice for emails as well as for websites, if you have a personal one. And you can share it with your whole family, which [...]

  • Improved navigation and zooming in your family tree

    Some nice improvments on the navigation bar on the Kindo tree. The English users are enjoying it for quite some time already, but now it is live in all languages, so we wanted to let you all know about it.
    We have redesigned the zoom bar and have split if of from the info box. [...]

« Previous Entries
Afrigator