Sarik Weber on 28.09.2006 at 09:42h CET
There is a burning desire in my heart to build my own business for more than 20 years.
When I was 12 years old, I founded my own roll delivery business in m neighbourhood. I didn´t go to the bakery and asked for a new job. I asked the baker for how much he would sell me the rolls and resold them to my neighbours. Since then I helped to build 4 successful companies, among them eprofessional, one of the pioneers and now leading search engine marketing agency in Germany, which was recently sold to Zanox.de AG.
Over the time, I realized that while you wait for your own happiness, your happiness is always already there, waiting for you. So I continued to love what I do and do what I love by joining the management team of openBC at a very early stage. I became the first employee of Lars, who has always inspired me with his great entrepreneurial spirit of “Just Do It!”. Many of my friends told me that I had finally achieved to make a profession out of my favourite hobby, which is networking and I absolutely loved that job, helping to build up openBC to where it is today.
My whole world began to change when I realized that I could become a real entrepreneur in the true sense of the word. It was a tough choice to make and I made it. I decided to found my own enterprise in the mobile phone business together with some very good friends who had already approached me 7 years ago to start a business together, while I was not ready yet.
I will be working in the new enterprise as of today. You can always reach me at
https://www.openbc.com/hp/Sarik_Weber/.
I am very grateful towards you, Lars and Daniela, and you all for being such fantastic team members and colleagues, I haven’t experienced such a great company spirit in a long time. I also want to thank all our clients and partners for the great cooperation and hope to see you again soon.
With every end comes a new beginning. openBC has a great future and I wish you all to create an outstanding community out of one that is really great already.
I am very sure that we keep in touch and overall get together wherever we are!
With my very best wishes to all of you,
Sarik
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Dear Sarik
I believe you were one of my first contacts on openBC. It’s probably a tough decision, but it’s never wrong to follow your heart and try to accomplish your dream.
All the best for your new venture and welcome in the world of entrepreneurs
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Remo
Sarik Weber verlsst openBC
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Sarik Weber im Interview
Marco Ripanti in einem Interview mit Sarik Weber über dessen Ausstieg bei OpenBC/Xing zugunsten eines eigenen Projekts im Mobilfunkbereich:
Ich wünsche Sarik und seinen Partnern natürlich auch maximalen Erfolg bei ihrem Vorhaben und freue mich s…
Dear Remo,
thank you so much for your encouraging comment, people like you make the world a better place.
After your great research work and revelation of XING now I only hope, that you don´t also achieve to discover the name of my new company before it will be officially announced.
Just don´t try, it might ruin your new reputation as the new star on the kiss-and-tell story blogger heaven
Sarik (who seems to acquire a taste for blogging)
night blogging
Sarik, keep me posted!
Sarik is moving on to a new venture
Sarik Weber, a great friend, devoted investor into Creative Weblogging and employee No.1 at OpenBC is moving on to a new venture – this time his own.Over the time, I realized that while you wait for your own happiness,…
Congratulations, and good luck!
Cheers,
Cem
Thanks a lot, Cem. Here you can find another little video interview I gave Rodrigo Sepúlveda at ETRE 06 in Barcelona. It includes some more information about my new mobile 2.0 venture:
http://www.sepulveda.net
We will start with our own company blog very soon.
Sarik Weber