European Internet startups gathered at the conference
The European Innovation Conference DLD 2007 (Digital Life Design) was held from 21 to 23 January in Munich and gathered about 1,000 visitors, including Internet entrepreneurs, media specialists, experts and even financiers, who looked here two days before the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
In fact, the DLD conference is the European equivalent of the American DEMO conference, where the most promising Internet start-ups can also be found. As the guests of the Munich meeting could see, the difference between the European and American Internet business is shrinking. Europe has adopted all the best from Silicon Valley, writes the NY Times .
The star of the current DLD conference was Niklas Zennström, who is now engaged in his new startup Joost . The Swedish entrepreneur has already achieved success by selling his last startup Skype for $ 2.6 billion, so he is now rightly considered the guru of Internet entrepreneurship. Like many other IT enthusiasts, Niklas Zennstrom believes that the Internet will have the most devastating effect on various sectors of the modern economy. For example, his brainchild Skype now controls 4.4% of the international voice market.
Israeli businessman Yossi Vardi (Yossi Vardi), who financed an ICQ Internet startup founded by his son ten years ago, fully agrees with Zennstrem.
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Among the most promising European Internet startups is called a social network for business contacts Open BC / Xing - German development, which is a competitor to the American network LinkedIn . A month ago, the owners of Open BC / Xing brought their startup to the stock exchange, producing the initial issue of shares.
Another example of a successful European startup is the French company Netvibes , a pioneer in creating personalized Web 2.0 start pages that each user can customize to their own taste with the help of widget modules. The company received $ 15.5 million from Accel Partners US venture capital fund last year. Now the number of users of the service has exceeded 10 million, and the company opens an office in America. It is symbolic that the founder of this startup Tariq Krim (Tariq Krim) during his student days worked in Silicon Valley. He was a trainee at Sun Microsystems, and later worked as a reporter for a French magazine, also from Silicon Valley. This is a good example of how American entrepreneurship culture in the field of Internet startups is copied by Europeans.
The first investor in Netvibes was the Spanish businessman Martin Varsavsky. He, like no one else, understands European Internet startups. According to Warsawski, European developments are usually more advanced than American ones. For example, European video services Vpod and Sevenload are more advanced than YouTube. That is, in some respects, Europe no longer just caught up, but also surpassed America.
In fact, the DLD conference is the European equivalent of the American DEMO conference, where the most promising Internet start-ups can also be found. As the guests of the Munich meeting could see, the difference between the European and American Internet business is shrinking. Europe has adopted all the best from Silicon Valley, writes the NY Times .
The star of the current DLD conference was Niklas Zennström, who is now engaged in his new startup Joost . The Swedish entrepreneur has already achieved success by selling his last startup Skype for $ 2.6 billion, so he is now rightly considered the guru of Internet entrepreneurship. Like many other IT enthusiasts, Niklas Zennstrom believes that the Internet will have the most devastating effect on various sectors of the modern economy. For example, his brainchild Skype now controls 4.4% of the international voice market.
Israeli businessman Yossi Vardi (Yossi Vardi), who financed an ICQ Internet startup founded by his son ten years ago, fully agrees with Zennstrem.
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Among the most promising European Internet startups is called a social network for business contacts Open BC / Xing - German development, which is a competitor to the American network LinkedIn . A month ago, the owners of Open BC / Xing brought their startup to the stock exchange, producing the initial issue of shares.
Another example of a successful European startup is the French company Netvibes , a pioneer in creating personalized Web 2.0 start pages that each user can customize to their own taste with the help of widget modules. The company received $ 15.5 million from Accel Partners US venture capital fund last year. Now the number of users of the service has exceeded 10 million, and the company opens an office in America. It is symbolic that the founder of this startup Tariq Krim (Tariq Krim) during his student days worked in Silicon Valley. He was a trainee at Sun Microsystems, and later worked as a reporter for a French magazine, also from Silicon Valley. This is a good example of how American entrepreneurship culture in the field of Internet startups is copied by Europeans.
The first investor in Netvibes was the Spanish businessman Martin Varsavsky. He, like no one else, understands European Internet startups. According to Warsawski, European developments are usually more advanced than American ones. For example, European video services Vpod and Sevenload are more advanced than YouTube. That is, in some respects, Europe no longer just caught up, but also surpassed America.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4996/
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