So today I’m at the Next08 conference in sunny Hamburg, Germany, my first stop in the TechCrunch EuroTour. There are about 1,200 people here, up from around 700 last year which just goes to show how much the industry is changing here in Europe. As one delegate described it to me, it’s one of the few – if perhaps the only event – to bring Geeks and Investors together in Germany. A number of German startups are pitching here, many with international rollout plans, and I’ll update this post later on with my notes. If you are here and would like to say hi here’s my contact details (and what I look like!).
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Mike Butcher
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May 15, 2008
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Rydhian = Thomas Promny of German gimahhot.de
Ah, mighty old home Germany. I agree with Nicole (video 3), German startups are ‘afraid’ to go outside and speak (write) Englsih. Big mistake.
Peter
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getting bigger..
Germany is a good place to start a company and go international. At http://www.cellity.com we found top skilled developers, we got funding from European VC´s and we offer all our mobile clients worldwide. Just within a year of launching our first international client we surpassed 3 million downloads from users from more than 160 countries. And there are more examples like XING, amiando and many other very successful startups.
Next08 was a very good proof of the high energy of the German startup scenery.