A Perspective on Entrepreneurship & Technology

My name is Cornelius Rabsch, I am currently writing my final thesis at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland in Galway in the Semantic Web area. I am enrolled for Business Information Technology at the University of Mannheim in Germany since Sep 2003.

I care a lot about entrepreneurship, internet technologies and all things digital. Together with two amazing co-founders I started Tagcrumbs, a social placemarking Internet company.

My interest in entrepreneurship and technology arose out of two stays abroad. I studied for one year at the University of Waterloo in Canada with a focus on computer science. A great university with a tremendous know how in computer science and engineering and I met inspiring tech entrepreneurs. Furthermore I did an research internship at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, USA. I like living in an international open environment with exciting projects to work on.

My studies contained topics like E-Business, E-Government, Distributed Information Systems, Operations Research, Internet Technologies or Semantic Web concepts. A really broad spectrum on top of business and computer science basics but perfect to understand business problems that involve technology issues.

Listening to great speakers is one of the things I never wanted to miss. So I enjoyed speeches of Vinton Cerf (“the father of the Internet”), Richard Stallman (Founder of the Free Software Foundation), Bjarne Stroustrup (Inventor of C++), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor of the Web), Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve) during my stay abroad and many more great business-related speeches at the University of Mannheim.

I would love to hear some feedback about this blog and its topics from you. Feel free to contact me.