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This weekend has been our slack-off weekend. On saturday we worked
only half the day and then went to see a soccer game in a pub around the
corner. And as with everything at the moment, this game also miraculously
turned out in our favour, the small team we were rooting for, Mainz 05,
the club of the city in which Christoph grew up and we finished high-school
together, a club that just ascended to the first league this summer and has
the smallest budget of all teams in the Bundesliga, beat the biggest, most
famous, most successful and of course wealthiest club of the league,
Bayern Muenchen.
This once again shows that David CAN BEAT Goliath.
And at the moment we feel like little Davids and we’re looking for our Goliath!
We’re just not sure who it is. Is it Microsoft or is it Google? Or is it some
pet-site-Goliath?
Anyway that’s what makes soccer fascinating. Soccer teams can basically
be seen as complex system, a field that I was and am very interested in
over the past years. It basically means that in a complex system such as a
soccer team, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. I’ve read
studies that say that in a match between two soccer teams of different
strengths, the probability of the stronger team winning is approximately
at 60% whereas in individual sports such as tennis, the probability of the
stronger player winning is at 90% (that’s why R.Federer has won everything
in the past years but Real Madrid couldn’t win the Champions League)
I believe that the same can be said about companies and the market.
If the right components (in this case people) find themselves than
they’re able to create stuff that transcends their individual and
collective capabilities. And applied to the market it in turn means
that the biggest companies with the most capable people will not always
win (Or in the case of Microsoft over the past years, never win

Other than that, I also got my RFID set from touchatag on saturday
and spent sunday afternoon playing around with it. Since they have
a cool API and it is a possibility for petsicon to enter the vet market
later, meaning to provide online medical documentation software
to vets, I programmed a little app that automatically logs the pet into
the petsicon system (and some more stuff that’s secret
Basically later the pet can walk into a vets office, a RFID reader would
read the RFID chip of the pet and if that office or veterinarian was authorized
before to have access to the pet’s data by the owner, the vet would
automatically get the medical history and all relevant data on his
screen instantly.

Pretty cool, huh?