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Software is eating the world

by Martin Saidler | Posted in Production

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 Internet into online industries: music, film, books, retail, classifieds, telecommunications, post,…
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Our new mission statement

by Martin Saidler | Posted in News

“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 intensively. It makes clear what we do. And what we want to do, we must also…
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Homepages: A Thing of the Past

by Martin Saidler | Posted in News

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 by experts and specialists. Ebay is a website. It is…
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Mobile First in Banking

by Thomas Rappold | Posted in News

Mobile Banking in Germany is growing rapidly. According to the new Accenture Banking 20616 study, more than half of all bank transactions in Germany are done by a mobile gadget. Wolfgang Gaertner, CIO Deutsche Bank, says: “We have to go this direction, else we can’t…
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Working from a beach in the cloud

Centralway – The Cloud Company

by Martin Saidler | Posted in Production

Every single step of our work processes at Centralway are in the cloud. In the last 18 months, we have transferred all work processes for each department to the cloud – for that, we use self-developed and third-party software. Each employee can work from anywhere…
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Stress Test for Banks

by Thomas Rappold | Posted in Production

This was a rather challenging start of the year for German banks: On the same day the two biggest private banks, Commerzbank and the Hypovereinsbank, both announced massive job cuts. The key focus of those cost-cutting efforts were not only jobs in investment banking, but…
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We love to build

Centralway, The Company Builder

by Martin Saidler | Posted in Production

Centralway has invested in over 200 companies since 1998. Even though we defined ourselves as a venture capitalist for over a decade, we always felt like entrepreneurs. We have started our careers as entrepreneurs and have earned the starting capital for Centralway by successfully building…
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