Auch Startnext beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Crowdfunding. Es ist das erste deutsche Portal dieser Art und fokussiert auf Projekte aus Kunst und Kultur. Mitgründer Tino Kressner erklärt im Interview, woher die Inspiration und Motivation für die Crwodfunding-Community kam, was die Ziele sind, welche Bedeutung er dem Thema für die Zukunft gibt und vor allem, wie es funktioniert.

Crowdfunding wird in Deutschland immmer beliebter. Mittlerweile gibt es zahlreiche Portale, die Menschen mit Ideen dabei unterstützen, diese mit Hilfe vieler anderer finanziert zu bekommen. Dabei setzen die Portale ganz unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte. So richtet sich die Crowdfunding-Community SEEDMATCH explizit an Unternehmensgründer, deren Ideen besonders gutes Wachstumspotenzial versprechen. Wie das Crowdfunding genau funktioniert und was dabei zu beachten ist, erklärt Gründer Jens-Uwe Sauer im Interview.

Barcoo is a mobile application which helps you to get more information on the products you buy. It got into the attention of mass media during the dioxin scandal in Germany. With the app you could simply scan the barcodes of the eggs and check if it was infected or not. Resulting for barcoo in more than 2 Million downloads so far, being one of the most successful apps from Germany. To learn more about Barcoo.com, just check the interview with co-founder Benjamin Thym.

Crowdfunding is taking over in Germany. First mover www.startnext.de offers crowdfunding for art and cultural projects. They have a 40% success rate, which means that 40% of the projects get funded. Co-founder Tino Kressner provides some insights on the process of starting startnext, which was actually inspired by sellaband.com rather then kickstarter.com. The plattform is so far bootstrapped and realized as an non-for-profit business. They have ambitious goals to be realized till the end of the year. Well, just check yourself what Tino has to say about crowdfunding in Germany.

And here is the last interview of our Brazilian Startup special. Pablo Handl is co-founder of the Hub in Sao Paulo. Which is a co-working space in the heart of Sao Paulo at Rua Bela Cintra. He gives us some insights on the co-working idea and how it works in Brazil, introducing some success stories incubating in the hub. The Hub is an international co-working movement, providing shared office spaces especially for social entrepreneurs. It is a great chance to get in touch with likeminded people. That is especially great if you move to an other city or even country. As the hub has offices all around the world.

Here we go with more insight views on the Brazilian market. We met the ; co-founders of Mobile Monday Sao Paulo: Fernando Dias and Ronaldo Fernandes. They do not only provide interesting facts on the Brazilian mobile market, they also provide hints on how to succeed there as foreign startup or company. And they are launching a TV-Show about the mobile industry, not only for the internet but for real TV.
Here a preview on some of their insights: Did you know that the iTunes store is not available in Brazil? They also mention, that SMS continues to be the killer application in Brazil having a 100% market coverage.
Besides running Mobile Monday Sao Paulo, Fernando Dias is CEO of Pure Bros Brazil, the main SMS billing integrator in Brazil. Ronaldo Fernandes is general manager of Roda Kafe, a mobile advertising agency.

The Brazilian mobile market is booming - mobile veteran Marcelo Castelo founded the digital agency fbiz.com.br 11 years ago believing in the power of the mobile.
There is almost one mobile by Brazilian inhabitant, meaning that there are more than 190 Million mobiles out there. But 82% is pre-paid meaning that the majority of people will not have entrance to use mobile services. Today the smart phone coverage is 10%, but as the Brazilians change their mobile every year there will be a big jump soon. Apps are not to stop neither in Brazil. But there are some special issues which are important to know about the market. Marcelo provides some interesting insights on how to succeed on the Brazilian mobile market.
We experienced the boom ourselves on the way to the interview. The taxi driver surprised us by picking out his iPhone to check google-maps for directions.

Sao Paulo based Yupee.com.br provides an online service to control and manage your money. That sounds a bit like mint.com? Not at all, cause yupee is all about educating on financial issues in Brazil.
As the Brazilian market is getting wealthier and welathier also the people in the lowest income segments are finally benefiting. And suddenly there are millions of new market participants. But as they are missing knowledge about how the system works they loose far too much money. Banks demand high interest rates for credits which are available everywhere. Providing web-seminars, a book and of cause tons of online-tools - it's the goal of yupee.com.br to provide financial education.
So the people could save a lot of money by becoming aware of how the financial system works.
Beside talking about yupee.com.br the passionate founder Fabio Mainardi also provides some additional insides on the Brazilian startup scene and provides some insights for startups who want to set up in the Brazilian market.

The Timeline App is a great intuitive way to scroll through content based on a timeline. The idea is so simple and beautiful, but hasn't been realized so far. The team used Wikipedia as a first usecase and it looks really nice to scroll through the years, zooming in and out thereever you like. Imagine using that for any kind of knowledge, or to learn about history, wouldn't it be far more fun?So the team around the timeline app won a 1.000 Euro provided by appbackr.com through the positioning on the wholesale marketplace for iPhone and iPad apps. Plus the team is invited by the blackbox.vc seed accelerator to spend two weeks with them in the silicon valley. Who knows the team might use that opportunity to develop more of these timeline-based apps. I'd love to see! :)---Last weekend there was a two days hackerthon organized by Philipp Berner from Appbackr.com. It was amazing to see the huge range of ideas and how far they came on getting them realized. Check out the other videos of that event http://blip.tv/rss/bookmarks/224987.

The CrowdVideo App allows you to share and search for videos location based. Imagine you have been to a concert and taken a view video-shots and share them with the others, so that you can all watch the concert from all kind of perspectives. Nice, hm?---Last weekend there was a two days hackerthon organized by Philipp Berner from Appbackr.com. It was amazing to see the huge range of ideas and how far they came on getting them realized. Check out the other videos of that event http://blip.tv/rss/bookmarks/224987.