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mg // 17.07.2009

Events2go – PICNIC: Three days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation

The countdown is on for PICNIC09: There are still 67 days to go until the fourth edition of PICNIC will take place on September 23-25, 2009 at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. This year’s event will be focusing on new media, mobile technologies and the changes produced by the clash of the old and new world.

PICNIC is a festival with a cutting edge conference program featuring keynotes, interactive experiences and matchmaking sessions designed to evoke an emotional reaction through "quirky surprises". The PICNIC09 speaker line-up features amongst others Philip Zimbardo, Niklas Zennström, Gerd Leonhard, Tomi Ahonen and Jeff Jarvis.

PICNIC09 will be featuring two big competitions: The Green Challenge, a global competition for the most innovative products or services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the Vodafone Mobile Clicks finale, awarding 150,000 Euros to the most innovative mobile applications. To get in touch with the PICNIC team write to info [at] crossmediaweek.org. Click here to buy tickets.

Among the many successful entrepreneurs and creative minds that have been interviewed by Tiburon-TV's Viktoria at PICNIC08 was Jure Cuhalev - founder of Zemanta, inventor of smart rabbit Nabaztag Rafi Haladjian as well as Philip Rosedale - creator of the virtual world Second Life. Click here for all of Viktoria’s interviews from PICNIC08.



Next Friday's "Events2go" will be covering Slush conference in Helsinki - an event for startups by startups. Stay tuned!
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vt // 29.10.2008

Loic Le Meur – Seesmic.com: the new video twitter @ PICNIC08

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Loic le Meur about Seesmic, the differences between the US and Europe for starting an Internet startup and hints for starters like "... don't try to finde something revolutionary..." more in the video! Interview shot at picnic conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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vt // 22.10.2008

endemol goes for platform independence and cross media – Rocco van den Berg and Frank Geusebroek @ PICNIC

At the picnic conference are also delegates of established mediahouses, to see where the market goes and what could be the next big thing. Rocco van den Berg and Frank Geusebroek from the business development department are stating their experiences at picnic and what is going to be hot for endemol. Watch the video to learn more.
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vt // 20.10.2008

put out your own talent contest: talentsplanet – Dick Rempt @ PICNIC

At the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam, there have been lots of business ideas flowing around. Dick Rempt is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, he calls himself a company builder. But just investing is not enough for him. Than he got in touch with the idea of talentsplanet, he could not resist and set up the startup himself. Watch the video to discover what talentsplanet is about and what Dick thinks about learning and failing.
Dick Rempt is driven by an approach of partnering and sharing so he is always looking for cooperations and new ideas. You have a service or product which would enrich or promote the idea of talentsplanet? Do not hesitate to contact Dick! picnic conference amsterdam From 24th to 26th of September 2008, hundreds of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. More information and pictures shot at the event you will find on the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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vt // 17.10.2008

how to accelerate european business ideas with play & build – Mathias J. Holzmann @ PICNIC

A global network and incubator for ambitious young people, that's what co-founder Mathias J. Holzmann has in mind for his startup playandbuild. He aims to accelerate the process of bringing profit and even non profit business ideas to success, European wide or even worldwide.
Having young starters as a focus, that is a similarity to Nico Luchsinger and Antoine Verdon, the founders of the sandbox conference, which targets young talents under 30. picnic conference amsterdam From September 24th to 26th 2008, hundreds of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam, Netherlands for the third PICNIC conference to share ideas and thoughts. For nice pictures, shot at the event follow the link to the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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vt // 14.10.2008

crowd funded music – sellaband.com – Pim Betist @ PICNIC

While the big labels get afraid of the fundamental changes the Internet and the general technological development causes them, there are some fresh ideas upcoming to revolutionize the music business enabling promising artists to get enough money to release their own album. Pim Betist, co-founder of sellaband.com, explains how anybody can become a micro-investor and fund new talents. Very frankly, Pim provides us with insights about the business model behind, which also entailed some criticisms.
The idea sounds simple, find 5.000 believers who buy one or more shares for $10 each. Once you reached $50.000 you will be the lucky one to get you album produced. The success of sellaband is impressing, 14 artists already reached the required $50.000 and have their albums produced, 12 more artists are funded and are on the way of album production. As sellaband takes an transaction fee for any money purchased and gets the interests of the stored money which is waiting to hit the $50.000 you can get an idea about the profitability of that business model. That also caught the attention of investors and that is maybe why sellabend got its $5 Million funding by Prime Technology Ventures for expanding in the US. So it is no surprise, that there are lots of competitors on the market which also want to have a peace of the cake: forMyBand is a German variation of the same idea, at slicethepie the single investments start at $5. Justaloud.com and talentarena.de have a different approach but also enable independent music and artists to fame, both are based in Germany. A similar concept but for independent films offers indie maverick. Also established bands use their fans to receive a pre-financing. The veteran U.K. progressive rock band Marillion could raise $725.000 by selling deluxe versions and gifts related to their new album like going to the studio with them and participating in the recording. That might also be a very cost-effective sales channel for the musicians because as their audience pays in advance they will save a lot of money for marketing and distribution. picnic conference amsterdam The interview with Pim Betist, co-foounder of sellaband.com, was realized at PICNIC08, where creative minds from all over the world came together to share ideas and thoughts. It took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands from September 24th to 26th 2008.
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vt // 13.10.2008

spreading viral videos in the web with bemba.com – Arne Dibbits @ PICNIC

One more Dutch entrepreneur, Arne Dibbits, shares some insights about his startup at the PICNIC conference. Bemba provides you an easy way to share web pages and videos on Facebook, Hyves (the Dutch Facebook), Twitter, your blog and bemba. See the following interview to learn what else bemba offers and how they plan to make money with their services.
picnic conference amsterdam The interview with Arne Dibbits about bemba.com was realized at PICNIC08. Hundreds of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam, Netherlands from September 24th to 26th to share ideas and thoughts.
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vt // 10.10.2008

publish your own book: blurb.com – eileen gittins @ PICNIC

Ever dreamed about publishing your own book and becoming a famous author? It's much easier as you think - at least the part about publishing the book... Just use BLURB with its easy to use publishing software. To learn more about that idea, have a look at the interview with Eileen Gittins, realized at PICNINC conference Amsterdam, Netherlands:
The idea of self publishing on demand is not new, there are several other competitors offering more or less similar products such as amazons BOOKSURGE, LULU, MYPHOTOBOOK and BOD. The two last are more focused on the German market.
    Let's compare them (excluding booksurge as it is only author focused and prices are too high):
  • Price: Looking at the price the winners would be LULU and BOD, they offer the best prices of all four. BOD tops it by offering great discounts depending on the quantity of ordered books.
  • Quality: Coming to the quality, that is hard too judge, I've seen books of all four and they looked just fine. Maybe LULU failed a little. Question must be more how easy it would be to create the book through the publishing process.
  • Handling: BLURB and MYPHOTOBOOK offer a special software which you can download for free. At LULU and BOD you have to create your book online or upload a file.
  • Options and services around: If you want to keep it simple having as main interest to publish a beautiful book for yourself, your family and friends or business partners in great quality you will be fine with BLURB and MYPHOTOBOOK which focus on an easy handling. If you are more interested in becoming an author and selling your book through established distribution channels like amazon you should choose LULU or even better BOD, because BOD even offers more publishing services like providing ISBN's, professional lectorate or layout. LULU and BOD also offer a much wider range of book formats.
  • Specials: I liked especially the idea of the BLOGBOOK by BLURB. They have a software which imports and maps your blog text, images, comments, and links into professionally designed page layouts. Supporting blogging platforms like Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad and WordPress. After import you can customize and edit your BLOGBOOK as little or as much as you like.
    • So what do you think, shall we give it a try? Eileen gave me a discount voucher valuing 24,95$. I am looking now for somebody who wants to use it for publishing her or his BLOGBOOK or whatever book you like. Only thing I ask is to share your experience with us afterwards. Interested? Just send an message to Viktoria till Thursday 16th. picnic conference amsterdam
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vt // 07.10.2008

getting young adults into charity – Martin de Ronde about onebiggame.org @ picnic

At the PICNIC conference there have been lots of business ideas flowing around. Martin de Ronde is a successful serial entrepreneur, who just sold his last company. With lots of free time he decided to set up something with charity but with an entrepreneurial and fun approach. Watch the video to discover what he is doing and how he is attracting young adults to charity.

If you are interested in more information about onebiggame.org you can find some other very interesting interviews with Martin de Ronde here and here.

Social entrepreneurship is no new thing, it always existed. Social entrepreneurs recognize social problems and use entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Success for them is related to the impact they have on society. That is different to business entrepreneurs who typically measure performance in profit and return. (source of defintion: wikipedia)

But more or less new is, that there is a big movement of social entrepreneurs using the Internet, digital media or web2.0 mechanisms to let the big change happen. One of the most famous examples is the US-based kiva.org founded in November 2005, enabling micro loans for entrepreneurs all over the world through an Internet based platform where anybody can participate by contributing as little as 25$. Being enormously featured through press and media such as CNN and BBC, or through personalities and politicians such as Bill Clinton, kiva could raise more than impressively 45mill$ for more than 63.000 loans so far. Seth Godin already called it in 2005 "...a great first step in opening up bottlenecks." And Guy Kawasaki mentions six lessons which any entrepreneur can learn from the kiva phenomenon. So take your courage and change the world!

Just in case you plan to set up you own social business, here is a great presentation on how to plan your social enterprise:
Social Enterprise Planning Guide
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picnic conference amsterdam From 24 to 26 September 2008, hundreds of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. For nice fotos, shot at the event follow the link to the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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vt // 03.10.2008

sandbox – Nico Luchsinger and Antoine Verdon

At the picnic conference last week in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nico Luchsinger and Antoine Verdon told me about their idea to set up an own conference which is focusing especially on young talents under 30. The first event will take place in 2009 in Zürich and will have INNOVATION as central theme. If you want to know more about the sandbox conference and what there will be different compared to other conferences and barcamps, just have a look on the video.
Logo Sandbox-Network The two ambitious co-founders of the sandbox-network are themselves still very young, both 25. For more information about Nico Luchsinger you can check out his professional profile on the sandbox-network site. There you find links to his facebook profile and his twitter account. Additionally you can go to his personal blog written in German. Nico also works as a journalist and has done several interviews with swiss startups. For more information about Antoine Verdon also have a look on his profile on the sandbox-network site. There you find links to his facebook and xing accounts and you can also decide to follow him on twitter. They have also set up an own facebook site for their sandbox-network. The group already has more than 430 members, which illustrates the already existing bigger interest for their conference. And of course they do have a company blog. A German presentation of their idea you can find here. picnic conference amsterdam The third PICNIC conference took place from 24th to 26th of September 2008. Offering a huge program and bringing together thousands of creative minds from all over the world. For pictures, shot at the event follow the link to the conference site picnicnetwork.org
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