25 best European web startups have proven themselves in Switzerland
In the Swiss town of Montreux in a luxury hotel on the banks of Geneva, the Web & Communities Summit conference was organized by the European TechTour Association. The old world is practically not inferior to Silicon Valley neither in the number of entrepreneurs, nor in the volume of venture capital (more than $ 1 billion in the first 9 months of 2007). Here even professional "start-ups" appeared, who launch and sell Web 2.0 projects one after another, like hot cakes.
For example, Pierre Chappaz, a Frenchman, sold his first startup, Keikoo, to Yahoo for $ 700 million in 2004, launched a new startup, Netvibes , with the money, and after its success, another Wadio (European rival Digg), which and is engaged now.
For the conference in Switzerland, among the 420 nominees, 25 best Web 2.0 startups were selected, each of which sets no less ambitious goals than Wikio. Venture investors came from all over the continent to see them.
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Some of the ideas are very original, promising and quite worthy of implementation in Russia.
According to the British analytical company Library House, for the first III sq. In 2007, investments in European Web 2.0 startups accounted for more than $ 1 billion, or about 17% of the entire venture capital market on the continent. A year earlier, this figure was only 11%.
Among the most promising startups in Europe were the European YouTube-clone DailyMotion (a startup founded in France, 2005), the universal widget platform on mobile devices Goojet (France, 2007), CyberSports virtual football manager (UK, 2006, the project is still not working) , the MyThings personal property catalog (UK, 2004), which is automatically updated when shopping in online stores, the interface for social networks on Zyb mobile phones (Denmark, 2005), the analogue of the American FON project for free WeFi's Universal Universal WiFi Access (Israel, 2006).
There are more original ideas. For example, the exchange of tickets purchased Seatwave (UK, 2006), where holders of unnecessary tickets to the theater, cinema, train and plane can sell their ticket for cheap. It is said that in Europe, the secondary ticket market is about $ 10.3 billion.
The Germans have developed a 3D social network for meetings and meetings sMeet (Germany, 2006). The colorful world is downloaded via a web interface to a PC or mobile phone. The group of developers of this unique system, apparently, lives in Izhevsk (Russia).
The cyberpunk cross between a classic social network and a sweepstakes - the project Bragster (United Kingdom, 2007), where participants compete with excitement with each other, or point to some events in their lives (my boyfriend Ted will make me an offer before the end of the year; school in underwear), and all the others make bets on them. The most interesting thing is when the amount of bets accumulates to such a limit that the object is really forced to do what the network mind “requires” from it.
Another project presented at the conference is a free coComment program (Switzerland, 2007) for centralized tracking of discussions in thousands of blogs.
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For example, Pierre Chappaz, a Frenchman, sold his first startup, Keikoo, to Yahoo for $ 700 million in 2004, launched a new startup, Netvibes , with the money, and after its success, another Wadio (European rival Digg), which and is engaged now.
For the conference in Switzerland, among the 420 nominees, 25 best Web 2.0 startups were selected, each of which sets no less ambitious goals than Wikio. Venture investors came from all over the continent to see them.
')
Some of the ideas are very original, promising and quite worthy of implementation in Russia.
According to the British analytical company Library House, for the first III sq. In 2007, investments in European Web 2.0 startups accounted for more than $ 1 billion, or about 17% of the entire venture capital market on the continent. A year earlier, this figure was only 11%.
Among the most promising startups in Europe were the European YouTube-clone DailyMotion (a startup founded in France, 2005), the universal widget platform on mobile devices Goojet (France, 2007), CyberSports virtual football manager (UK, 2006, the project is still not working) , the MyThings personal property catalog (UK, 2004), which is automatically updated when shopping in online stores, the interface for social networks on Zyb mobile phones (Denmark, 2005), the analogue of the American FON project for free WeFi's Universal Universal WiFi Access (Israel, 2006).
There are more original ideas. For example, the exchange of tickets purchased Seatwave (UK, 2006), where holders of unnecessary tickets to the theater, cinema, train and plane can sell their ticket for cheap. It is said that in Europe, the secondary ticket market is about $ 10.3 billion.
The Germans have developed a 3D social network for meetings and meetings sMeet (Germany, 2006). The colorful world is downloaded via a web interface to a PC or mobile phone. The group of developers of this unique system, apparently, lives in Izhevsk (Russia).
The cyberpunk cross between a classic social network and a sweepstakes - the project Bragster (United Kingdom, 2007), where participants compete with excitement with each other, or point to some events in their lives (my boyfriend Ted will make me an offer before the end of the year; school in underwear), and all the others make bets on them. The most interesting thing is when the amount of bets accumulates to such a limit that the object is really forced to do what the network mind “requires” from it.
Another project presented at the conference is a free coComment program (Switzerland, 2007) for centralized tracking of discussions in thousands of blogs.
via BusinessWeek
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