Just got great news: We’ve been selected for the next round of Seedcamp and therefore will go to London on September 3rd.
Check out the following 2008 application zeitgeist - very interesting:
Question: What are you creating?
Question: How will you make money?
Question: What tools will you use?
Looks like a whole lot of Online-Advertising-built-on-MySQL 
Get the message? Join the team!
We are hiring international sales people, so drop us a line (jobs[at]toksta[dot]info) and tell us why you will make the difference. Looking forward to hear from you!
Update: And of course toksta wants you to vote!
Here you can find a short interview (in german) with me from the Blog Foerderland.de. Enjoy reading and don’t forget to vote for toksta !
We got great news this Friday: toksta has been nominated for the INTERNET WORLD Business-Idee of the year!
The winner will be announced on October 21st. You can vote until October 3rd, so please support us and vote for us >>> HERE <<<
Congratulation to the other startups that have been nominated:
A special note for our german speaking readers: Unfortunately the description of toksta has quite some mistakes in it. Even though I had a long phone call and sent all the information I could, customer and competitor names have been spelled wrong (deine-tierwelt.de not meine Tierwelt, Nimbuzz not Nimbus), the description of our service sounds rather strange, we are not going to release 10 language versions (see blog post below) etc, etc.
When I read the description I immediately contacted the responsible agency but the text has already been printed. 
The ageny promised though to at least correct the mistakes in the online version…So let’s hope they get everything right now…
Getting more and more requests regarding toksta* from all over Europe and even the U.S., we are soon going to release toksta in the following languages:
So stay tuned and bookmark our RSS Feed
A 5 min. video interview (in german) at the next08 with Alexander Hüsing. Check it out at Deutsche-Startups.de!
Hey everybody, just a short update: We have been really busy working on a new release which is up and running since last week. Now, the profile picture from the community is displayed in the IM as well as in the chat requests.
The friends and ignore lists from the community can also be integrated automaticially in the IM. This is an optional feature because many people believe that you don’t want the same friends in your IM friend list which you have in your community…well, what does that mean?
Furthermore we enhanced our API and tuned the design customization. As a user you have the possibility to hide your webcam symbol, see when your chat partner is writing you a message etc. etc.
A complete list of our features is here.
Just check it out and give us feedback (support |at| toksta |dot| info)!
Looking forward to it…
Wow! Seedcamp Berlin just closed its doors but at least I am already looking forward to Seedcamp London in September.
The event was great from the beginning: After the registration and a short welcome note, all startup teams (see list below) had the possibility to present their idea/concept to the mentors (see list below). Saul Klein pointed out to use this opportunity not to pitch, but rather give the information necessary to get the most valuable feedback possible. Well, there was no doubt, that quite some know-how was in the room but venture capital wasn’t missing as well: A 1 billion Euro (= 1.000.000.000) venture fund (combined) is also quite impressive.
List of mentors:
Startup teams:
After the startup presentations we had a panel discussion with Lukasz Gadowski, Oliver Beste, Max Niederhofer and Prof. Sven Ripsas from the FHW Berlin followed by 2×10 Breakout sessions where mentors and startup teams could get into deeper discussion. Especially this part of the event was very valuable considering the great amount of knowledge and experience brought in by the mentors.
And last but not least we had a friendly competition among the startup teams with Mixxt on a great 3rd place and GroupDNA/ tickertxt.com on 1st. place (we made second place). All in all a great event, so thanks again to Saul and the rest of the seedcamp team as well as all the mentors bringing the seedcamp in Berlin. Hope to see you in London…
Techcrunch UK is on tour through Europe since a couple of weeks, and now Seedcamp hits the road as well: So if you are in Berlin this friday, don’t miss out on the Seedcamp Berlin. We will be there to check out the vibes for the upcoming seedcamp in London. Seedcamp Week is set for Sept. 15-18 2008 in Central London at UCL.
We met Mike Butcher at the Techcrunch Meetup in Berlin and talked to him in a short interview about the german startup scene and his opinion about the copycat discussion. Enjoy!
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