Posts Tagged ‘shift08’

mg // 02.06.2009

The Five Most Promising Portuguese Startups

Most of you probably know that Portugal is an ideal sunshine get-away from cold northern European weather, but are you aware of the exciting tech startups that have recently been founded in the country of seafarers? Tiburon-TV introduces you to the five most promising ones among them: Adegga, handivi, Tarpipe, The Star Tracker and stream19. Social networks and networking tools like Social Wine Discovery service Adegga.com are having quite an impact on the wine industry: Adegga lets you track the wines you are drinking and share your wine discoveries with the community. You can also access the service using your mobile while visiting a wine shop, see what other people think about a wine and check wine prices on other shops. Adegga has been co-founded by Lisbon entrepreneur André Ribeirinho.

For those of you who speak Portuguese - here’s Viktoria interviewing André in this poetic language. There’s also a mini video with a live wine tasting of André’s wines. Not only for youngsters: Mobile network service handivi.com allows you to do everything you can do with a web based social network service – socializing with friends, sharing pictures, videos and messages. Learn more about the meta mobile network by watching Viktoria’s interview with „hippie nerd developer“ Celso Pinto and „wannabee marketeer“ Vitor Domingos ;) If you use different social media applications like Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed etc., Tarpipe.com comes in really handy. The publishing platform simplifies your social media workflow and makes it easy to share content across various sites through an intuitive, Yahoo Pipes-like interface. Bruno Pedro is the co-founder of this great social media startup. The Star Tracker is all about connecting global Portuguese talent. The invitation-only social network aims to energize and empower the Portuguese diaspora of around 5 million people. Founder Leonardo Xavier believes that „everybody has talent“ and „we are what we are because of our talent and not because of our experience.“ Finally, a cool website catering to all action sports lovers: Social network Stream19.com – founded by Sergio Veiga - provides a forum for action sports athletes to showcase their videos, events, and friends. Stream19 also hosts a contest for talented kids – the so called “king of the spot” will become sponsored by a company.

In next Monday's episode of „The Top 5“, Tiburon-TV will be introducing „The Five Most Promising Dutch Startups“. For earlier episodes of „The Top 5“ please click here.
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vt // 07.11.2008

Celso Pinto and Vitor Domingos – handivi.com @ shift08: the next killer mobile app will be Portugues

No, Portuguese startups are not only focusing on the national market but also heading to global success! Celso Pinto and Vitor Domingos are just about developing the next killer application and setting it up to an own global mobile application network.
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vt // 07.11.2008

Pedro Custodio @ shift08: All about the Portuguese startup scene and shift09

Pedro Custódio is one of the organizers of the SHIFT conference. SHIFT aims to bring together people ... The other two team members of the SHIFT conference are André Ribeirihno and Pedro Figueiredo. Rethink the past and plan the future...
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vt // 06.11.2008

Andre Ribeirinho – adegga.com @ shift08: discovering wine

André Ribeirinho is all about wine and he wants to share his passion with other people by providing an answer on the always returning question which wine to choose. You want to know how it works and how it integrates your offline-shopping experience, have a look on the demonstration which André provides in the video by bringing QR Codes on wine bottles! For more infos go also to www.adegga.com. André is also co-founder of the shift conference and put in a lot of energy in realizing this event.
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vt // 06.11.2008

Henriette Weber – toothlesstiger.net @ shift08: startups should become more like rockbands

How would business look like if startups would act like rockbands? How would our world look like if companies would focus more on our dreams and how to realize them? That are ideas Henriette Weber figures out with her own company toothlesstiger. Lets learn with Henriette, how we can turn our startups and our companies to something more connected to our customers and our environment, so go ahead and watch the video.
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vt // 05.11.2008

David Orban – OpenSpime @ shift08: Saving the environment by connecting things

OpenSpime.com, a Social Energy Meter, shows you the energy you are consuming to see how you could improve your energy and electricity spendings. You can set up goals with your friends on saving energy and share that in social networks like facebook. Developping smart objects which care for the environment, that is the aim of David Orban, co-founder of OpenSpime.com . He claims it an open source technology empowering individuals, corporations, and governments to better understand their environment, through the use of a new generation of location-aware sensor networks. The interview was shot during the SHIFT conference in wonderfull Bairo Alto of Lisbon, Portugal. And the funny people around are: Tara Hunt, Felix Petersen and Ton Zijlstra.
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vt // 05.11.2008

Bruno Pedro – tarpipe.com @ shift08: being a role model for Portuguese startups

Bruno Pedro has been one of the first movers in Portugal working in the Internet business, having himself a background in web development, working for sapo.pt and being a serial entrepreneur. His new business idea is tarpipe.com, a social media publishing platform, which allows you with one single action to post everywhere complex posts with different types of content. For example the content of a post with text, photos and video, will be separately distributed to sites like flickr, youtube, twitter and at the end be put together again.
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vt // 05.11.2008

Delphine Menard: inter-cultural communication for startups @ shift08

Delphine Ménard talks about the cultural differences which could have an impact on business. She illustrates her ideas with a comparison between Germans and French, that might be the way of how to deal with being on time or there actually business is done during a meeting versus the lunch afterwards. Delphine has a rich experience working in that area for wikipedia.org. She also shows how the cultural influences have an impact on the wikipedia structures in the different countries. For more information check out her site: www.notafish.org.
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vt // 04.11.2008

Leonardo Xavier – thestartracker.com @ shift08: how to get the Portuguese president involved

One advantage of starting up in a small country is that you can generated a big impact quit fast, as TheStarTracker.com did. This startup unifies the global Portuguese talent, providing a network for the Portuguese living abroad which are 5 Million people as a target group, consider that Portugal itself has around 10 Million inhabitants. Anyway the startup had the talent itself of catching very fast the interest of the Portuguese president and getting him involved.
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vt // 04.11.2008

Tara Hunt – The Whuffie Factor @ SHIFT08: Social Capital for everybody

Tara is going to publish a book in April 2009. It is all about the Whuffie Factor, explaining how the social capital will be the new and all defining curency. She was inspired by the the book "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow. At the shift conference in Lisbon, Portugal in the great Bairo Alto.
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