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„We’re a mix of the best part of Qype, Foursquare plus local recommendation engines“ says Tellmewhere-CEO and Co-Founder Gilles Barbier in his interview with Tiburon-TV at LeWeb09. The Paris-based startup offers a web and mobile urban guide to discover new places suited to your tastes. „You can also rate and write reviews“ explains Gilles „the more you rate your experiences, the more precise and personalized your results become.“ Founded in 2007, the startup already has more than 450.000 registered iPhone users, mostly from France.

With version 2.0 of their iPhone application, Tellmewhere is going global with some very cool socializing features like an activity stream of everything your friends are doing. As for Tellmewhere’s business model, local merchants can propose „special offers“ on the Tellmewhere platform which are then monetized by the startup: Like a pay-per-visit model, each time someone uses a „special offer“ coupon, Tellmewhere charges the merchants a small fee.

To download the Tellmewhere app for your iPhone, please click here.

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Promoting the recession cause of less competition. Stephan Uhrenbacher also says that the market entrance was never as easy as today cause of existing promotion portals like iphone app store, also technology never has been that cheap. He also mentions that competition is international today, so look carefully around what happens elsewhere.
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The financial crisis is amongst us and will affect everyone in some way. Nonetheless, this event is not about discussing all the bad things around us, it is about providing a high-level, positive and casual platform for people in the technology/ internet industry to exchange ideas, experiences and create new business or collaboration opportunities.

The event is open to anyone who has purchased a ticket and will start at around 19:00. At around 19:30, there will be a number of short presentations about forthcoming challenges and opportunities in 2009. Afterwards, everyone will be able to discuss possible thoughts & experiences, synergies and collaboration opportunities, in a casual setting.

There will be a number of people giving presentations; so far these include:
• Terry von Bibra (CEO Yahoo Germany)
• Stephan Uhrenbacher (founder of Qype)
• Felix Haas (co-founder of amiando)
• Nicolas Kirschner (Investment Manager at High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
• Nico Lumma (lumma.de)
• Constantin Gonzalez (Principal Field Technologist at SUN Microsystems)
• Dr. Ingo Dahm ( Head of Academic Relations at Microsoft)
• Axel Schmiegelow (CEO at Sevenload)

Each presentation will be about 5-10 minutes long and centre on either a challenge or opportunity in 2009.

Date, time and location The event will take place at the premium event location Lounge2 in Munich, on the 18th of February. The event will start at 19:00.

Tickets to the event cost €6.99. They will be sold via our partner amiando.de and can be purchased here: http://www.amiando.com/cando09.html

News and information about the event will be delivered here and on Deutsche-Startups.de. Updates will also follow via twitter (@TiburonTV, @vik_t & @nicholasmvh) and on the twidox blog.

Sponsorship

If you are interested in supporting this event, please contact Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein A sponsorship package costs €399 and will provide the sponsor with:
• 5 free tickets to the event
• Branding on two posts on Deutsche-Startups.de
• Branding at the event (sponsor is responsible for implementation)
• One sponsor will be selected at random to pitch their business on stage for 1 min

Get in contact with the organizer: Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein - nicholas -at- twidox -.- com