I am very pleased to announce that the company my friend Michael Wenglein and I have founded in 2010, Propertybase, has been acquired by Boston Logic. The partnership acquisition comes as part of a created strategic alliance, with a goal of sharing resources, synergies, industry talent and value between both companies. Both Propertybase and Boston Logic will…
Julian Sutherland, Director of RayWhite (Australia’s leading real estate brand comprising of nearly 12,000 property professionals), and a passionate Propertybase user, was so kind to give us an interview. This is a sneak preview. The whole interview will be published shortly.
This week we had our 2014 Global Gathering @Propertybase. It was so great to have all people in one place again! This was not easy to organize with staff in 3 continents. I therefore enjoyed it even more. It is an honor to work with all these awesome people! Here are some impressions from our Munich headquarters and…
Elke Thonscheidt from http://ohfamoos.com/ did an interview of Christof Wittig and me about travelling, why we do it and how to cope the challenges. Thanks for interviewing me, Elke! Read the whole interview here: http://ohfamoos.com/2014/07/flugzeuge-im-bauch/
This is one of some customer video success stories which I have filmed for my company Propertybase. All was shot with a Canon 5D MkII with either a Canon 17-40/f4 L or a Canon 50/f1.4 lense. Some footage from the intro has been made with a Canon 70-300 L tele lense. Propertybase Customer Story – NAI…
This is how the Propertybase design will look like (more or less since it’s a mock up) soon:
The launch of social real estate CRM Propertybase plus the polo cup on Mr. Voelker’s private estate in one short movie. Check it out! The event was amazing! btw you can see me briefly at 7:11min (with Christian Voelkers) and at 7:42min with US CEO, Anthony Hitt.
From my my company’s blog: It’s a great time to be in the real estate business. The recovering real estate market means a chance to step back from crisis mode, and turn to more strategic business decisions. We’ve never been so information and data rich, but what you do with this information matters. In a recent article…
Wow, I never imagined that this could happen: We have a sailing team! We…Propertybase…the company, no the people I have dedicated my heart to. So, there it is: The Propertybase Sailing Team and they not only sail somewhere but they compete in the SB20 World Championships 2013 in France! I am looking forward to the…
Thanks to Drew Meyer from Geek Estate for the interview and to present our company. GeekEstate Blog was founded by Zillow.com as a resource for real estate professionals who want to learn more about how they can grow their business through smart use of technology. You can read the interview here: http://geekestateblog.com/meet-real-estate-entrepreneur-max-michael-mayer-propertybase/
About a week ago I was approached to talk about Propertybase on ‘Moving America Forward’, a show highlighting America’s entrepreneurs, and hosted by William Shatner…. WILLIAM SHATNER!! Okay, so I’m well aware that William Shatner is no longer ‘Captain Kirk’, but that doesn’t stop myself and everyone at Propertybase from getting butterflies about going on…
Here is the teaser Engel & Völkers created before the launch of Propertybase CRM and the new website, powered by Propertybase.
Second day of the Launch Event with Engel & Voelkers in Palma de Mallorca: After a fantastic party yesterday evening with 500+ Engel & Vorlkers borkers and agents on the beatiful estate of E&V’s CEO Christian Voelkers we are now back to work. The break out sessions have started already. The feedback is great and…
Live from the event in Mallorca: We launch the new website and CRM (which is Propertybase) today. This is a global roll out and probably the most innovative project in real estate software for a long time!
What have William Shatner and I in common? I will reveal this soon. Watch out my posts!
This is one of some customer video success stories which I have filmed for my company Propertybase. All was shot with a Canon 5D MkII with either a Canon 17-40/f4 L, a Canon 85/f1.8 and a Canon 50/f1.4 lense. Propertybase Customer Success Story – Smith and Ken from Propertybase on Vimeo.
This is one of some customer video success stories which I have filmed for my company Propertybase. All was shot with a Canon 5D MkII with either a Canon 17-40/f4 L, a Canon 85/f1.8 and a Canon 50/f1.4 lense. Customer Story – Engel & Voelkers Hong Kong from Propertybase on Vimeo.
This is one of some customer video success stories which I have filmed for my company Propertybase. All was shot with a Canon 5D MkII with either a Canon 17-40/f4 L or a Canon 85/f1.8 lense. Propertybase Customer Story – Kiawah Island from Propertybase on Vimeo.
Building a successful company is not easy, and it all depends on the people in your team. Finding great talents is one challenge. Finding talents who fit the team and the culture of your company is even harder. When I founded Propertybase together with my partner Mike (@mwenglein) it was clear to us how important…
A great write up from Alexander Brühl, investor in Propertybase and a good friend of ours. Check out his presentation below, really worth it. Early Funding for Your SaaS Startup – Some Observations from Alexander Bruehl A Write-Up of Thoughts and Observations About Early Funding for SaaS Startups in Europe (by Alexander Bruehl) ————————————————————————————————————————————…
Today we have had an amazing event in Dubai at the Armani Hotel which is in the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world! Thanks for all who have attended. Here are some impression as well as my keynote presentation from today: Propertybase Keynote Dubai Event May 25, 2013 from maxmichaelmayer
Some shots taken last week during our camping trip in California. Was playing with the panoramic feature of Photoshop. All images have been taken with a Canon 5D MKII. Mt. Whitney from Movie Road, Alabama Hills, CA (some may know that panorama from the first Iron Man movie) – Lens: Canon 85mm/f1.8 Lake Tenaya, Yosemite…
30 kilometers, 1200 meters difference in altitude on legendary trails! This is where Mountain Biking was born in the ’70s. Did the ride today. Going from the City of Ross up to the East Peak of Mt. Tam and followed the Hoo-koo-E-Koo trail which brought me back to Eldrige Grade and back to Ross. Wow,…
A short video of a bike trip I did yesterday on the Coastal Trail, Golden Gate National Recreation Area:
Another video which I shot a couple of days ago. The St. Regis has a fantastic view on Hanalei Beach and the Sunset is really gorgeous!
Kaua’i, one of the Hawaiian islands, is a gorgeous place! I took the chance to take a flight over the island this week. Here is a short video which I’ve cutted today:
Vimeo.com and flickr.com … those 2 are essential for sharing my private live with my family around the world. Our family is on three differnt continents…the only option to share what’s going on in our lives is sharing pictures and videos on those 2 platforms. You may ask why I don’t mention Facebook, right? Well,…
Thanks for all the nice comments for my first ‘Ride-to-Work‘ video which is about going from Marin City to San Francisco Downtown. This time I filmed my daily ride from my home in Munich to our Propertybase office in Munich Center. Nothing more to say, just watch the video:
Since we have our office in San Francisco I try to go to work by bike almost every day. It’s an 21km ride one way with great views of Downtown San Francisco and fantastic ocean views on the Golden Gate bridge (if there is no fog. Watch the video and you understand what I mean).…
If you haven’t heard, Google released Google+ Pages yesterday…as if we needed another place to post information 😉 But, since Google rules the world of search and I’m sure that +1 ranks will factor into organic results to some degree, we must bow down to the Masters of Mountain View. Our company page can be found…
I have Shimano XT disc brakes on my Salsa and slowly after riding it for a couple of weeks the disc brakes started squealing. Have you ever ridden a bike which squeals when you brake? This is really annoying and the killer for any downhill! I was really close to rip off the whole brake…
Just got a new LED lamp. 600 lumen make you think it’s day time 😉 not extra battery pack. All built in the lamp. Great! Looking forward to night rides in the next time.
Vote the best VCs in Europe! Guess who I voted for 😉
Fantastic views and speedy fire-roads: That’s the Marincello Trail, a short and easy ride in the Marin Headlands. Most people go uphill as the grade of this climb is on the milder side: 9.5%. But why go uphill if you can do downhill, too 😉 ! Here is the video from today. Enjoy! And…
Took this video on Sunday trying out my new ContourHD camera. Nice little toy! I know the storyline of this video is not, well, not there 😉 but I think for a first shot it’s okay. Enjoy!
Finally, it’s done: I completed my Salsa El Marichia over the weekend and had my first ride on Sunday. What an amazing bike! I never tried 29er’s before but all the positive things I have read before are true. It’s truely a race bike but has the old spirit of a steel frame – it…
After upgrading to Lion the fan of my MacBook Air (2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) went crazy most of the times: It kicked in almost immediately after start up. The wierd thing was that none of the processes were consuming high CPU power. After trying out a couple of things (disabled flash, deactivated all…
Found this pic on my harddrive: This was my rack in 2003. Build by myself, heavy as hell! Miss the light show though 😉
We’re selling our top domain: InTheCloud.com Let me know if you are interested.
Some pictures which I have taken last weekend at Yosemite National Park when I was camping in the High Sierra (Tuolomne Meadows): – –
View from the Parc55 hotel room in San Francisco. Camera used was a Canon 5D Mark II with a Canon 1.8/85mm (image 1) and a Voigtlaender 2.0/40mm (image 2).
We (www.propertybase.com) will move into a new office in August. This is exciting! It’s such a great space! I have copied the post from our Propertybase blog below: …First, check the video that we have taken today. As you can see the space is not yet finished but you will get a good impression of…
My own company is a SaaS company (www.propertybase.com) and we are somehow addicted (in a good way) to light-weight, easy-to-use and affordable enterprise solutions. We therefore have set up our whole ‘internal’ infrastructure on cloud services. And I can say that I am really excited about some of the solutions! So far, we only had…
Just stumbled across this video from Toto from their Falling in Between Tour. Have the record since it came out but the video makes this interpretation of their own top hit even more amazing! I like especially the part in the middle where they start playing ‘Birdland’ over the Rosanna hook line (around 7:00 in…
I have replaced the standard hard drive on my MacBook Pro (2009, v5.1) with an Intel X25 SSD. The improvement is amazing: The MBP is much faster now and starts almost as fast as my MacBook Air. Check the videos! Start up:
Fishmarket in Seatle. Taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and Voigtlaender Ultron 40/f2 at 1/40 sec., f2 and ISO 250.
Some snapshots from yesterday and today. All taken @f2 with my Canon D5 Mk II and the Voigtlaender Ultron 40mm.
Those shots have been taken with a Sigma Dp-2 (which I still own, wanted to sell it on ebay but somehow couldn’t make it yet). Location: Porsche Museum in Stuttgart (no, this is not my private garage ;-).
I’ve taken this picture a couple of weeks ago. Camera is, as usual, the Canon 5D Mark II. Lens is the Voigtlaender Ultron f2, 40mm. The more and more this lens replaces my Zeiss Planar f1.4, 50mm. It’s just a great but tiny little lens and it makes a lot of fun using it. Image…
after all, that’s not really surprising: Google Maps wasn’t really used for listings. Google simply didn’t get it rolled out to a larger part of the agents and brokers. Their main tool is still the MLS (in the US) and replacing MLS will take some time…although, we can see already the first attempts which look…
Monday morning in Munich. Front of my car. Taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and the Voigtlaender 40mm f2 at 1/400sec, f2 and ISO100. I love the details on the pic! Click on it and see a larger version and you know what I mean. Click on picture to enlarge.
This little lens makes some serious fun!
I was walking by the the UN headquarter just to figure out that the building seems to be under construction…at least the upper third floors. What you see is the facade of the building with a reflection of Manhattan’s skyline.
A famous picture! Retaken just yesterday: The original picture has a history: V-J Day in Times Square is the name of the photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young woman in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was originally published…
Our hotel is surprisingly nice – expected worse for that price considering that Times Square is just around the corner! Here are some shots of the hotel. All taken with the Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.4. Click on the images to enlarge them.
I have taken 2 quick pictures in my hotel room. One with the Ultron, the other one with the Zeiss. Zoomed into the Ultron picture in order to make it comparable to the Zeiss. Can you tell the difference? Here are the original shots. No development, just the raw conversion to jpeg with Lightroom. I…
Just arrived in New York and took some pictures around Times Square. All shots are taken with my D5 Mark II and the Voigtlaender 40mm 2.0f. …and 2 shots of Mike, the ‘Leica’ dude:
Christoph Janz, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, has invested in Propertybase and will join our board. I am really happy that Christoph joined us: His experience with his own ventures plus his current investments in SaaS companies like Zendesk make him a valuable source. Not only Christoph has contributed a lot to our company…
Got this new lense a couple of days ago. Here is a first picture. Didn’t have so much time therefore a cooking picture only – for the moment. So far, great little baby! Sharp, nice bookeh…although not as strong as my Zeiss Planar 50/1.4. Need to make for pics to be sure. I am in…
Camping at Yosemite this weekend:
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Probably Steve’s best record – ever! Great Steely Dan touches here and there. You need to check it out. .
A snapshot taken today close to our new home in Munich, Solln:
Found this app on the weekend: Flickstackr is IMO the first usable flickr app for the iPad. I was wondering for some time why flickr themselves doesn’t come up with an iPad app. Maybe it’s that they think their website runs on a mobile browser quite well? Anyhow, Flickstackr is an app which makes it…
Here are 4 pictures of the Munich subway. All pics are taken with my Canon D5 Mark II and the Zeiss Planar 1.4/50 ZE. Settings for all pictures: [exif show=”camera,iso,focus,aperture,shutter”]
From www.leicarumors.com: Leica M9 Titanium limited edition will be limited to 500 pieces. Made out of solid titanium. It will cost an arm and a leg – probably more expensive than the Leica S2 (update: the price of the Leica M9 Titanium set will be 22,000 EUR). The frame lines will be illuminated by LED.…
Last weekend Elke and Alex married! What a great event!
Fuji’s official website for this gadget is here.
I am looking forward to take part at the Cloud Camp in Hamburg, the first Cloud Camp event in Germany. My presentation is about ‘How to launch a cloud based business’. Check it out: Launching a cloud based business View more presentations from maxmichaelmayer.
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I was testing the Zeiss Planar 50/1.4 in the hotel lobby. They had some very nice lights which mad it easy to test the bookeh…what do you think? [exif show=”camera,iso,focus,aperture,shutter”] [exif show=”camera,iso,focus,aperture,shutter”]
What a great landscape and the Mohr Resort is an awesome hotel!
I was testing my new Canon 5d Mark II with the Zeiss Planar 1.4/50. Some additional work has been done in Lightroom 3 but overall I am very pleased with the image quality. [exif show=”camera,iso,focus,aperture,shutter”]
Found this pic on my NAS storage. Actually it’s a scanned slide from 1994. Still amazing, isn’t it!
Are you curious what Real Estate Customer Relationship Management and dating have in common? Then check out this great post from my partner Mike on our Propertybase blog: http://www.propertybase.com/blog/2010/08/real-estate-dating/