Dutch serial entrepreneur Mathys van Abbe will be launching his third start-up Spot2.be in a couple of weeks. Spot2.be is a tiny URL-service for locations, an easy way to let your friends know where you are having dinner or where your party is located. Or you can share a spot for a cinema, finding its name and address and additionally pointing out restaurants nearby the location. Banks can place their ATMs on the spots or locations of parking lots can be found. Unlike Google Maps with its very long links that are difficult to text via a mobile, Spot2.be provides a nice and easy-to-use product for small information exchanges. Mathys van Abbe plans to have about five million URLs in a year with Spot2.be. The service is free but if you want to claim your spot for business purpose, a small annual fee has to be paid. Mathys van Abbes other businesses are mobypicture.com, which sends mobile pictures via social websites to your friends and thus lets you share your adventures instantly and startpix.com, an online desktop application which visualizes all the links you collect. Tiburon-TVs Viktoria Trosien interviewed Mathys van Abbe both about mobypicture and startpix.

How does the Finish startup scene look like? The best way to find out is by speaking with one of its most active players, Taneli Tikka. Over the last ten years he founded 4 businesses himself, funded 10, became a board member of 13 (such as muxlim), was the CEO or COO of 7 (such as dopplr), managed 10 rounds of financing for a value of 15 Mill, sold three companies (one for 12,5 Mill in shares) and bought 1. Taneli Tikka is most known for IRC-Galleria, a very active social network which includes more than 70% of the Finish youth. His newest engagement is RunToShop, a product recommendation system. At his blog tane.li, he describes himself as a "serial entrepreneur and dealmaker with an active history of allround leadership and strategy work. Plus a reasonably laid-back yet opinionated dude." There he writes about startups of cause but especially about war stories, tabus, success and failure cases. To learn more about the Finish startup scene, just follow him on his blog. A lot of numbers and informations... besides that, Taneli always looks for great new investment oportunities.

Eran Davidson is Managing Partner and CEO of Hasso Plattner Ventures (HPV), founded in 2005 in the German city of Potsdam. An entrepreneur himself, Davidson has worked as an early stage investor in Israel for almost 12 years. HPVs mission is to bring back the entrepreneurial spirit back to Germany by taking local talented people and helping them to become globally successful. According to Eran Davidson, this mission can be accomplished by founding 20 very good companies and setting an example for all the others. HPVs current portfolio comprises companies like DaTango, Smeet, D-Labs and 10 other highly innovative IT companies. HPV supports its companies with product design, human resources, marketing advice and other professional services: When we identify a great entrepreneur, we will back him up in almost anything he wants to do. Good people can take anything and make it fly, says Eran Davidson. One of the most promising companies funded by HPV is verwandt.de with 100.000 new users per month the fastest growing family tree in the world. Verwandt.de is present in seven countries having local domains. According to Davidson, to get HPVs support it is crucial to be able to make complicated things look simple, having something people really want and being passionate about it. Furthermore, one should be able to pitch Davidson within three minutes: Then Im in.

According to founder Pouria Ruhi, the mobile broadcasting service BAMBUSER.com is "the best democratization tool out there". Apparently there are others sharing his opinion, proven by the award for the "best mobile solution" received at this year's SIME conference in Stockholm. Providing mobile video streaming from the phone, BAMBUSER is striving to be a great solution for interaction with the lowest latency possible. Being that a huge advantage compared to the major competitor qik.com. Pouria Ruhi, with a personal background in TV, and his team are first of all focusing on rapid user growth and will only later look for a sustainable, long-term business plan solution. Meanwhile he wants everybody in the world to get that solution on their phone just to make sure that "the next world changing event will be broadcasted on BAMBUSER."

Axel Schmiegelow, a German serial entrepreneur (denkwerk, sevenload), believes that the hardest sword is forged in the hottest fire, so he is looking quite optimistically to next years recessions effects on startups and he is not the only one out there with that opinion. Besides that Axel is an investor himself, he will continue investing and is always looking for great opportunities, which should be out of seed stage. Looking on the Swedish way of starting up, Axel Schmiegelow especially likes the entrepreneurial stories of IKEA and Tetra Pak, both Swedish companies with huge global success. The last one is a great example for how important it is to strongly believe in your idea to finally succeed. It took founder Ruben Rausing almost 10 years from the first invention of the Tetra Pak in 1944 until a way for mass production was found and the necessary machines set up and financed. Ruben Rausing points it himself in a great quote: Doing something that nobody else has done before is actually quite hard.

Rodolfo Lara Torres takes care about the Technology Pioneers Programme of the World Economic Forum, identifying every year companies with breakthrough innovations that will have a deep impact in business and society. So I asked Rodolfo about innovation in general, criterias for his choices, his personal favorits and what trends he sees coming up in the next years. Prior to the Forum, Rodolfo worked in various strategic management positions with Siemens in Germany. Rodolfo was named himself a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum in 2006.

You know her from Youtube, she is a phenomenon nobody can explain... She is even called a fairytale wonder child singer. Halth Portuguese, halth English she made Youtube her stage and made a world love her and the record companies fighting to give her a record contract. Mia Rose is the fourth most subscribed musician of all times on YouTube, greatly surpassing other Youtube musicians and most of the offline super stars. Check out her Youtube channel: http://de.youtube.com/user/miaarose