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Newsgrape – Interview with co-founder Felix Häusler

Manuel Gruber — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:04:50 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_qQdR5uiCk

Description

Newsgrape is a platform where users can provide texts and build their own magazines. The Austrian start-up raised a Kickstarter funding as one of the first European projects. The beta version of the platform launched on Mar 9, 2011.

More information: Newsgrape.com

Sektor 5 co-working space Vienna

Manuel Gruber — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:23:09 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp3IynakoFA

Description

Sektor 5 is a new co-working space founded by Karin Ruthardt and Yves Schulz. It provides 70 workspaces and is a place where open minded people can book their workplace daily, monthly or permanently. As Yves calls it in the video, it is an open space for people who work at home and are bored.

More information: Official Website of Sektor 5

Reshma Sohoni on Seedcamp

Manuel Gruber — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:41:07 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0geBQG5vv4

Description

Reshma Sohoni is one of the founders of Seedcamp, a british seed capital company and incubator that helps start-ups getting on track. Seedcamp organizes contests, the ten best start-ups are granted about 50K as seed capital and get offered an international network of mentors, press, future team members and other people that help early stage start-ups. The Austrian start-up garmz won at Seedcamp in Summer 2010.

More information: Official Seedcamp Website

Christopher Kahler on “urbian”, “qriously” and his entrepreneurial experience

Manuel Gruber — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:17:46 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOVSHzokVI

Description

Christopher Kahler ist the founder of two start-ups in the field of mobile services, “urbian” and “qriously“. Urban develops, in their own description “mobile experiences” compared to just “apps” as other companies do. Qriously is a fancy mobile market research service that cradles information in real time and location based.

With only 29 years of age he has a lot of experience in entrepreneurial stuff, which he offers in this interview. Christopher was a speaker at TEDxPannonia 2010, you can find his talk here: Christopher Kahler: “The Future of free digital Information”.

Interview: Markus Wagner i5invest

Manuel Gruber — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:56:17 +0000

Part 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB0Altvn-MQ

Part 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oa3RrcPLWw

Part 3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sIGe9mrhrc

Description

Markus Wagner is founder of i5invest, an incubating company based in Vienna and New York. In this 27-minute (!) interview he gives insight in his personal development and the work of i5invest, as well as advices for upcoming entrepreneurs.

This interview was recorded during STARTup Lounge Alpbach, organized by STARTeurope.

More information:

Official Website of i5invest
Official Website of STARTeurope

Selma Prodanovic on brainswork and IncrediblEurope

Manuel Gruber — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:40:36 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyYC-BHJ1ls

Description

Selma Prodanovic is the founder and CEO of brainswork, a consulting agency for startup companies. In 2009 brainswork created the initiative “IncrediblEurope” that brings together change makers from all over the planet to a conference on future development.

More information: Official Website of IncrediblEurope

Harald Weiss about Wappwolf and the invitation to Demo Conference in Silicon Valley

Manuel Gruber — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:27:26 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr9e4pLZ1Jk

Description

Harald Weiss is CFO of Wappwolf, an Austrian based mobile app platform. Wappwolf is invited to the Demo Conference, Silicon Valley in autumn 2010, as one of a few Austrian startups after Daniel Mattes’ “JahJah” and the Tyrolean “System One“. Harald Weiss talks about the project details and history of Wappwolf and gives advices for other startups.

More information: www.wappwolf.com

Hannes Offenbacher on building a sustainable startup company

Manuel Gruber — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:08:49 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaDoo2yIbl4

Description

Hannes Offenbacher is one of the most important doers in the Austrian sustainability and startup scene. With his company “Mehrblick” he organizes several events for startups and the sustainability scene, for example “Weisssee Ideenlounge” or “Sustainovation“. In this interview he gives several advices on how to build a sustainable startup and why.

STARTup Lounge Alpbach panel discussion

Manuel Gruber — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:37:48 +0000

Part 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYG6T0H8VN4

Part 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZPslCHiEWw

Part 3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRBy5hrwd0s

Part 4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OZvx2Nhq70

Part 5

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWekwJznhM

Part 6

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Q330Inctw

Part 7

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fxu4Ls5K-g

Description

Panel discussion taking place on August 27, 2010 during STARTup Lounge Alpbach. Daniel Mattes (former JahJah, now Jumio), Markus Wagner (i5invest), Reshma Sohoni (Seedcamp), Selma Prodanovic (Incredible Europe), and Christopher Kahler (Qriously) discuss about European startup culture. Get inputs from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists about what needs to be changed in our culture and what it needs to get successful with a startup.

Eric Pöttschacher on “Shapeshifters”

Manuel Gruber — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:01:56 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1tu5m1E4w

Description

An interview with Eric Pöttschacher straight from DREAM ACADEMIA headquarter. Eric is founder and managing director of “Shapeshifters”, an online platform for peer-to-peer exchange of business opportunities. Shapeshifters also offers a map of dreams. He talks about the aim behind the project, the next steps and of course, his dream.

More information: http://www.shapeshifters.net/