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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:

• addcontents
• adsclae
• brands4friends
• coliquio
• doodle.ch
• groops.de
• guut.de
• imedo.de
• jobleads
• kissnofrog
• make.tv
• mamiweb.de
• mikestar.com
• misterspex
• sharewise
• sones GmbH
• verwandt.de
• Young Internet

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:

• english
• french
• spanish
• russian
• polish
• turkish

So stay tuned and bookmark our RSS Feed

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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:

• Pratik Sharma (Core Objects)
• Sean Glass (Pikum)
• Charles Grimsdale (Eden Ventures)
• Salman Farmanfarmaian (Index Ventures)
• Stewart Townsend (Sun)
• Andreas Noth (Corporate Finance Partners)
• Andreas Schlenker (Partech International)
• Marcus Wagner (i5invest)
• Mattias Ljugman (Atomico)
• Olivier Schuepbach (Wellington Partners)
• Steffen Höellinger (Investor)
• Andreas Wuesthoff (SJ Berwin LLP)
• Katja Thuemmler (SJ Berwin LLP)
• Christopher Grew (HellerEhrman, Venture Law Group )
• Carter Adamson (former General Manager, Desktop Products, Skype)
• Christian Stein (VC Creathor Ventures)
• Ron Hillmann (Iven-Hillmann)
• Simon Schneider (High-Tech-Gründerfonds)
• Arndt Kwiatkowski (Immobilienscout24.de)
• Jochen Ramelow (MP MarketingPartner AG)
• Patrick Paulisch (Captain Ad, Linklift, Datango)
• Alain Falys (Omnis Mundi)
• Markus Schott (Holidaycheck.de)
• Thomas Bindl (refinedlabs.de)
• Lukasz Gadowski (Spreadshirt)
• Jan Beckers (JB-Ventures GmbH)
• Julia Derndinger (Dreamware GmbH)
• Andreas Haug (diligenZ)
• Prof. Sven Ripsas (FHW Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft)
• Marcel Otto Yon (Odeon Venture Capital AG)
• Christian Kapteyn (FoundersLink.com)
• Fabian Hansmann (FoundersLink.com)
• Marc Samwer (European Founders Fund)
• Alexander Piutti (Entrepreneur)
• Philipp Westermeyer (G+J New Media Ventures)
• Alexander Kolisch (Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH)
• Sven Janszky (Forward 2 Business)
• Alexandera-Fee Beyer (AF Beyer Startup Marketing)
• Wolfgang Seibold (Earlybird)
• Ulf Baecker (Start-Up Consultant)

Startup teams:

• GroupDNA/ tickertxt.com (<– 1st. Place - CONGRATULATIONS !!!)
• toksta* (<– 2nd. Place)
• mixxt (<– 3rd. Place)
• tracksandfields.com
• OpenSolutionSales
• GrowVotes.org
• Directed Edge
• Objeckt.me
• My Bookings Ltd
• tunesBag.com
• smaboo
• mjam
• homestaybooking.com
• RapidRabb.it
• barcoo
• Zsaqa
• Twidox
• Soup.io
• Justaloud.com
• shouldido.it
• quillp
• AntexX
• GERROS
• BTW Betaface (<– thanks for the reminder!)

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…

Tags: Seedcamp, seedcamp Berlin

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.

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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!

More Videos to come…. So just bookmark our feed

So formuliert es Alex Hüsing auf Deutsche Startups und das dachten wir, ist einen Backlink wert

Hey everybody,

I was about to write a blog entry encouraging you to meet us at the TechCrunch/Crunchbase Meetup in Berlin (we are a proud sponsor), but I just got the notice that the event is completely sold out! No waiting list or anything, so I guess the space is going to be packed (unlike on the photo…)!

This is what Nicholas (the organizier of the event from twidox ) recommends (for the people attending and the ones staying at home):

“We have created a ‘live community’ on http://blog.twidox.com via our friends at Six Groups. If you upload your pictures and/ or videos to Sevenload or Flickr, please tag them with “tcberlin” and use the hashtag “#tcb” when twittering. There will be a live stream at the event so that you can follow the latest activities as they happen. To join the “live stream” and for your tweets to also show up, please go to http://blog.twidox.com

Also feel free to blog the event and please always mention our fantastic sponsors.

Keep checking out www.techcrunch.com and http://uk.techcrunch.com/ for more information about the event and also for the latest tech & start-up news from around the world. If you want to speak with the guys from TechCrunch, Peter Ha and Mike Butcher will be there on the night. and register for the community. When registering, state your twitter account and then your tweets will appear in the “live stream”.

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