One of the organizers of StartUpCamp Switzerland is Dania Gerhardt from Amazee.com: „It is our goal to transfer knowledge and to connect the people. We really believe that it is important for Switzerland to connect more and to get more out of the network they have.“
Dania is one of the three co-founders and the CFO and COO of Amazee.com (please also watch Viktoria’s interview with Amazee’s CEO Gregory Gerhardt @ www.tiburon-tv.com). „Amazee is a platform for movements“ says Dania, „it empowers individuals to start global initiatives, collaborate in international projects and is boosting their activism. There is for example an IT development center built up in a schoolhouse in Sri Lanka with over 1000 people collaborating virtually from Singapore to Sri Lanka. In South Africa, one of our users already raised $6.000 in order to provide fresh running water for all the households in his village of Dixie – if you want to help go on Water for Dixie.“
According to Dania, the platform „is still at the very beginning and they are still developing quite a lot, but at the same time it is spreading in an international way.“ She finds it „an ongoing challenging process to build up the community and keep it active, to pick out the right projects and to promote these.“ There are also two other challenges coming up for Amazee: Finding the right partners to promote the ideas and another financing round.
As a female entrepreneur, Dania points out that is is crucial to „use one’s communication skills to get in contact with the right people and to approach them in a different way by using one’s female side.“ Dania concludes: „It’s nice to be a female, also in the web industry.“
All of Viktoria’s video interviews from StartUpCamp Switzerland can be found
@ www.tiburon-tv.com
