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Tradefarm.ch competes with Exsila
I’ve just read in the most recent media article about Exsila that the largest Swiss media-trading community got new competition with Tradefarm.ch. Tradefarm focuses on Games and has already 600 Users. The service is backed by a privat business angel. Here’s the original quote in German: Doch es gibt inzwischen auch andere Anbieter, welche das…
Podcast with Oliver Schärli of ZKB Start-up Finance
Podcast with Oliver Schärli of ZKB Start-up Finance Domink has produced another very interesting podcast with Oliver Schärli of ZKB Start-up Finance. Download the MP3 (in German) Learnings: #1: ZKB finances start-ups in the seed stage (50.000–500.000 CHF) and has a very good reputation in the Swiss start-up scene #2: ZKB finances start-ups from the Zurich…
The next big thing: UrbanSeeder
I’ve already mentioned it in the post scriptum of my LIFT07-report that UrbanSeeder a very cool thing, actually one of the coolest start-ups I’ve discovered so far this year. Actually I wanted to write about the service in more detail, but I promised Maya that I wouldn’t. But now that Robert put up this video,…
trigami: Take-over & Open Alpha
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Lift07: Speech of Bernino Lind
The speech of Bernino Lind was one of the most creative speeches during LIFT07. Here is an interview with this interesting and polarizing entrepreneur, including a short sequence of his speech (the sequence is starting here): (the full speech should be online soon) By the way, Bernino now lives in Geneva, so I hope his…
Swiss Tech Tour 2007
Yesterday I’ve been to the Swiss Tech Tour 2007 opening diner with over 200 participants (basically the who is who of the Swiss entrepreneurial industry). The event took place in the Eventdock of Zurich Airport. As one of the speakers said this location represents “glocalization” (global thinking & local acting). The food (and especially the…
Plazes nimmt €2.7 Mio Kapital auf
Plazes hat €2.7 Mio Kapital aufgenommen. Das Zürcher/Berliner Unternehmen scheint es also ernst zu meinen ;-). Ich bin gespannt wie es weitergeht. (via Techcrunch)
Coole Sache #1: Girls
Na wenn DAS mal nicht cool ist: It was the Girls’ Middle School Entrepreneurial Night, hosted by Google. One after the other, ten teams of 3–5 seventh grade girls presented their Powerpoint on stage to a panel of Silicon Valley judges and an audience of 400 parents, teachers and students. The students’ goal: to raise…
trigami ist live!
Wie wir vor kurzem gebloggt haben, ist die erste Version von trigami nun live. In dieser Version fokussieren wir uns besonders auf die Blogger. D.h. Blogger können ihre Blogs in unsere Datenbank eintragen und mit zahlreichen Meta-Daten versehen. Ausserdem legen wir viel Wert auf die Wünsche der Blogger. Wir haben deswegen eine kollaborative Wunschliste implementiert:…