vt // 14.11.2008

Arne Hulstein and Erno Hanning – the pitch car @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe

The Dutch conquer Berlin by a pitch car. Sounds crazy? It is... Arne Hulstein and Erno Hanning will tell you more about their way to come to Berlin and their pitching car sessions with lots of entrepreneurs during the Web 2.0 Expo Europe and even before. And they also give a personal review about the Web Expo. To see all their pitches go to Arnes site: http://www.arnehulstein.nl/2008/10/27/web-20-expo-berlin-the-pitchstops/ It's worth it!!
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vt // 14.11.2008

Dominik Matyka – plista: restructuring your Internet experience @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe

Dominik Matyka co-founder of plista.com wants to restructure your Internet experience by offering you a personalization and recommendation system which is an item independent browser extension. So any web content can be restructured for you and they do not even need cooperations for that. In the interview Dominik explains the idea behind, how it works and how they plan to make money with their user generated recommendation system. @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin
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vt // 13.11.2008

Andreas Spading and Stephan Bayer – sofatutor @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe

Every year millions of Euro are spent for tutoring school kids. An interesting market for promising business ideas. Andreas Spading and Stephan Bayer saw that opportunity, so they developed the idea of Sofatutor.com, a virtual tutoring system with user generated videos. In the interview they explain their business model and how they plan to share their revenues with the video producers. The Sofatutor guys got financed by the German EXIST program, which offers one year scholarships (without taking shares!) for university based startups.
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vt // 13.11.2008

Martin Szugat – SnipClip: Panini collections turned virtual @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe

Did you collect paninis than you've been a child? With SnipClip.com you can continue that passion virtually. It is also a great way for marketing kampaigns, watch the interview with Martin Szugat to find out more.
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vt // 11.11.2008

Tilman Eberle – doodle: easiest scheduling @ web expo berlin

Scheduling and choice making can be so easy, if yes only if you use a tool like doodle.com offers. It is apparently one of the easiest to use on the market right now. So no surprise at all that the Swiss startup has huge success, for example being the most popular German facebook application. The interview with Tilman Eberle was shot at the Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 in Berlin.
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vt // 11.11.2008

Leo Koivulehto – tripsay @ web expo: find your real travelmates

The tourism market is big and promising, that is why there are so many startups trying to improve your traveling experience. One more is Finland based tripsay.com founded by Leo Koivulehto. But be sure as it is not like others. Of course you can share your travel experiences with your friends, but what makes tripsay special is the matching. They match you with travelers who are like you and which taste overlaps with yours. So you can be sure to receive many travel recommendations which you really will like. Just try it out!
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vt // 11.11.2008

Tariq Krim – netvibes @ web expo: learnings of an entrepreneur

Tariq Krim the founder of netvibes shares his lessons learned from being an entrepreneur. He just left netvibes for being able to realize new projects and ideas. And he is also involved in a new French seed fund, so if you have a great idea and are looking for funding, get in touch with Tariq!
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vt // 10.11.2008

Andraz Tori – Zemanta: what about improvements? @ facebook developer garage in Berlin

Zemanta.com offers a very promising browser based tool for bloggers to help them to enrich their content. I've tried it after the interview at the picnic conference a few weeks ago and I like it a lot, but I see also space for improvements which are necessary to really make it an indispensable application. Lucky me that I met Andraz Tori, co-founder of Zemanta, at the facebook developer garage in Berlin. So I could ask him about all it.
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vt // 10.11.2008

Mathys van Abbe – mobypicture @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe

On mobypicture.com you can upload your mobile photos to all you blogs and social communities by one click only. And even more comfortable it becomes by automatically adding tags and text. mobypicture.com was founded by Mathys van Abbe a Dutch serial entrepreneur. His most important learning which he shares with starters: develop something which can work for one person only. You want to know what that means? Just watch the video! Mathys came to Berlin together with Arne Hulstein and Erno Hannink in their "pitch car". You do not know what a "pitch car" is? Check out the video with Arne and Erno!
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vt // 09.11.2008

Ulrich Theilmann – Fashionfreax: European style @ facebook developer garage in Berlin

With fashionfreax.com Ulrich Theilmann realizes a European fashion community, where you can share your styles let other rate them by uploading pictures of it. Fashionfreax is a good example how to catch the European spirit and getting different countries involved. Want to learn more about the idea, the founder and for what kind of partnerships he is looking for? Just watch the video! By the way, Ulrich founded the company together with his twin brother - are family businesses more suitable to succeed, what do you think?
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