The weekend may now start again, a little bit earlier this time as I I did not come from Hamburg to Berlin, but flew in directly to Tegel from Copenhagen. A short business trip, there were others I reported about touristic excursions. But that is not the case usually, more often it is like this time. Just in case you think: Oh great, Copenhagen.

Thursday morning to Fuhlsbüttel airport in Hamburg, meeting 7 people there, fly to Kastrup in Copenhagen, into town, checking into the hotel, lunch with colleagues and business partners and then off to the meeting. Only seldomly these meetings take place in attractive locations, mostly they are staged in boring office areas, which could be located more or less like that in Hamburg, Toulouse, Torino or Athens.

If at all, you only see interesting buildings from far, and if you ask the hosts about them, they do not even know what kind of tower it is and why it is formed like that.

This meeting was a workshop on “Early stage financing for high-tech companies” organised by our BSKR-Project. In this context there also was a small competition between six companies from the Helsinki, Öresund and Hamburg regions, for which we had organised some awards. So the was also an awards ceremony and a buffet (not of the luxurious kind). After that there was only time for two beers at the hotel bar, again with colleagues and partners.

Next day a short project meeting, to the airport and off to Berlin.

Well, I could have stayed for the weekend, but I preferred to go home, seldom as I am there.