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.
Jan-Joost Rueb, co-founded eBuddy.com 4 ½ years ago and is now its CEO. eBuddy aggregates chat between Amazon, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and others on the web and on mobiles offering a unified interface. As an added service to chats, eBuddy started offering ICQ in Germany. 41 people are working in eBuddy's office in Amsterdam and the company now has over 100.000 new users every day and around 8 million users per month. With 1.5 billion banners ads on the web, worldwide advertising is crucial for eBuddy's business.
Farley Duvall - Managing Director EMEA of Red Herring - notes that "finally some of the young people in Switzerland think it's okay to tell their parents that they want to be an entrepreneur and not go work for UBS. Young people are starting to be a little less afraid of failure."
Spanish cloud computing platform abiquo.com offers open source software that allows companies to create and manage complex IT infrastructure. With abiquo, virtual servers, networks, storage and applications can be managed in one click.
Im Interview mit Viktoria von Tiburon-TV bietet StudiVZ-Geschäftsführer Markus Berger-de Leon einen umfassenden Einblick in die ehrgeizigen Pläne seines Unternehmens. Gerade im Bereich des Mobile Entertainment will StudiVZ hoch hinaus.
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Eddie Correia and Moses Mehraban @ shift08: conquering the Portuguese market
Being situated in a small country which still has to develop a lot can also be an opportunity for an open market without big competition just waiting for you to conquer it. There is lot of space for developing ideas and products which might not be the most innovative ones but which are asked for by the Portuguese people.
Yoose-founder and CEO Christian Geissendoerfer shares his ideas on making mobile advertisement different: "We put all our energy on coupons on the mobile phone by offering a mobile coupon wallet".
Für alle Bastler und Heimwerker gibt es jetzt das Anleitungsportal wawerko. Auf der ersten deutschen Do-it-yourself-Plattform wird der Nutzer Schritt für Schritt und multimedial dabei angeleitet, Dinge selbst zu machen.
Software Made in Germany: Detmold-based Divolution provides its clients with testing and targeting technologies. Divolution's analytics tools profile user behavior on a website and automatically optimize a website depending on the user behavior.
With its B2C product Dolby Mobile, entertainment giant Dolby entered the mobile market. Dolby's suite of technologies enables you to get a better audio quality so you can enjoy entertainment on the go like mobile TV or do signed loading.
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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Philip Rosedale - Second Life: better than the real world? @ picnic08
"... a lot of human activity will be replaced with an equivalent in the virtual world..." and “The question is whether you’re being challenged and learning in a way that is less than or greater than the Real World experience ... I think that virtual worlds, like Second Life, have the potential to provide a more challenging intellectual environment than, in many cases, the Real World around you. And so time spent in the Virtual World, I suspect, will come to be almost an educational requirement rather than something that is viewed as potentially a problem for you.” that are statements by Second Life's founder Philip Rosedale, who after 9 years of intensively working on Second Life decided to take a step backward and passing the position of the CEO to someone else. In this way he is now able to focus more on the strategical development of SL, which includes ideas like enabling small entrepreneurs from development countries a business opportunity through SL. Learn more about his ideas in ...
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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!
Vasco Sommer-Nunes started his first internet business in 1997. Fascinated by blogging as it evolved, he picked up on it and now runs mokono.com, Germany's blog portal with the largest reach.
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Florian Resatsch - Servtag (presentation) @ Mobile Monday Berlin
In his presentation at Mobile Monday Berlin, Servtag's Managing Director Florian Resatsch talks about a recently concluded hyper-localization test using location stickers with RFID chips and QR-Codes. He believes the future is all about sharing real-time info on real locations.
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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.
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talentsplanet - Dick Rempt: put out your own talent contest @ picnic08
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.
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Pedro Custódio @ 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...
Thomas Nindl - Director Business Development Qualcomm Europe - foresees a huge market potential for social networking, indoor navigation as well as Augmented Reality. In his view, today's location based services like AT&T's Family Locator Service are only the tip of the iceberg...
According to Thomas Nindl of Wireless technologies provider Qualcomm todayâs location based services are only the tip of the iceberg. Thomas foresees a huge market potential for social networking, indoor navigation as well as Augmented Reality.
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