Posts Tagged ‘europe’

The Finish start-up Scred.com, founded by Kristoffer Lawson, focusses on banking for the 2.0 generation. Its version 1 has been successfully launched with around 1000 users already using this basic version. Version 2 with more exciting content will come out before christmas. Lawson tries to revolutionize the banking system by offering easy and fun-to-use tools to handle money. As the creative director of Alternative party - an art event in Helsinki he finds that money has always been a real headache. Users of Scred.com can simplify their money management among friends or on a trip by using Screds calculation, currency conversion and distribution tools and services. They can track debts between people and use Scred on their mobile even without connection!
Lawson, who already designed computer programs at age 7, just loves technology. He wants to make Scred extremely big and has no interest in focussing on the Finish market even if 50% of Screds users are from Finland right now. With regard to the financial crisis Lawson finds that time has worked in our favor since money is becoming more important. He adds: If you fail, its a stupid excuse, that its because of the recession.

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!!

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!