Web Monday Zurich

Last night the 16th Web Monday Zurich took place at the local.ch offices overlooking Zurich's Bellevue square. Well over eighty attendees had signed up for the event, during which the host local.ch and the Zurich-based Cloud Computing firm Cloudsigma did presentations on their respective businesses.

While local.ch's CEO Alfonso gave some insights on the future business prospects of the official provider of phonebooks in Switzerland (it's not all, but mostly online, with a heavy focus on mobile devices and services), Patrick of CloudSigma held a crisp talk on their business model and products (Cloud Computing obviously still is one of the buzzwords in the Web Scene in 2010).

The evening was, as usual, kicked off and rounded off with a good deal of networking, catching up and gossiping about the latest from the Zurich and Swiss Web Scene. If you'd like to attend, present at or host the next Web Monday Zurich, feel free to join this group or get in touch with Dania (who is admin of this group). And, as usual, our Michael took some pictures at the event.

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The next Web Monday will take place on 28 June 2010 at StartZentrum Zürich at Zürich-Binz (http://www.startzentrum.ch)

Some first infos on the speakers:

Peter Vogel will present jobzippers, an innovative online career planner: http://www.jobzippers.com

Christian Weber from SECO will present SuisseID, the new identification system in Switzerland for electronic data traffic: http://www.suisseid.ch

Franco Dal Molin from Ciklum will have a presentation on nearshore development for web startups and will show a few typical successful working models: http://www.ciklum.net

Thanks a lot in advance to Marc Hamburger from StartZentrum and Franco Dal Molin from Ciklum for hosting the event and sponsoring the drinks and snacks!

Please RSVP right above!

Yesterday the 14th Web Monday took place. IBM was our host and really spoiled us with a great location and apero.

We had a great variety of speakers:
Siddhartha Arora, our host, presented IBM's Global Entrepreneur Initiative, which aims to help startups capture new business opportunities. Under this new program, IBM provides access to its research community, sales, marketing and technical skills. We were the first to hear about this initiative in Switzerland, as the IBM Switzerland marketing machinery hasn't started communicated the initiative yet. Interested startups can already apply here: http://www.ibm.com/isv/startup

Amir Suissa presented his brand-new start-up DeinDeal, which has been launched a couple of weeks ago. DeinDeal.ch is a group buying website that offers a daily coupon for the best deals in your town with savings of up to 70% on restaurants, wellness, beauty, sports and culture. Amir told us in more detail what DeinDeal is about and clarified that it is simply another copycat of the highly successful GroupOn model from the US. Copycat or not - we wish them lots of success!

Till Quack from Kooaba held a very interesting presentation on the history and future of visual search and presented two tools in more detail: Paperboy and ShootingStar. These help you explore, share and remember things you see by recognizing your snapshots.

Last but not least Mark Melnykowycz presented his art work: in his group "Web Portraits Zurich" he creates cool images and portraits of the people involved in the web and startup scene around Zurich and Switzerland. Here some impressions: http://www.amazee.com/web-portraits-zurich - join the group if you want to be one of the next models!

Thanks to all for coming!

Simsa (Swiss interactive media and software association) is running a event series of "simsa LAT", Late Afternoon Talks about future trends in the internet. The talks are in German and the next one is on 20 April 2010 on the subject OUTERNET. Find out more and register here: http://bit.ly/9GLFcX

The next Web Monday Zurich will take place on 3rd May 2010 at IBM, Vulkanstrasse 106, 8048 Zürich (right at Bahnhof Altstetten). Doors open at 6.30 p.m.; presentations start at 7 p.m.

Here are the speakers:

Siddhartha Arora, our host, will talk about how IBM helps startups to capture new business opportunities. IBM provides access to its research community, sales, marketing and technical skills.

Amir Suissa will present a brand-new start-up DeinDeal. DeinDeal is a group buying website that offers a daily coupon for the best deals in your town with savings of up to 70% on restaurants, wellness, beauty, sports and culture. Launched end of March in Zürich, expanding in the next weeks to Basel, Bern, Geneva and Lausanne. Check it out here: http://deindeal.ch

Till Quack will present Kooaba, an image recognition service for mobile phones and desktops. Check it out here: http://www.kooaba.com/

Mark Melnykowycz will present his art work: in his project "Web Portraits Zurich" he creates cool images and portraits of the people involved in the web and startup scene around Zurich and Switzerland. Here some impressions: http://www.amazee.com/web-portraits-zurich - don't miss his cool pics of cool people :)

Please RSVP on this project home page!

Cheers, Dania

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Technical platform: Ruby on Rails.

Please contact Nicolas Berg at Redalpine Venture Partners
http://www.redalpine.com
mailto:nicolas.berg@redalpine.com
+41 79 431 55 17

The next Web Monday Zurich will take place on 8th March 2010 at the Wuala Office.
Here are the speakers:

Raphaël Briner will present Hyperweek visit, which builds and offers " a new kind of social network with broadcasters and organizations, to change the way their unique content is surfaced and shared across multiple contexts: time periods, topics, products, and more."

Shigs Amemiya will present iMusicianDigital.com visit that delivers music from indie bands & musicians to hundreds of online stores like iTunes, Amazon & Napster.

Alain Leclerc von Bonin will shortly present two projects: Oskope.com visitis the showcase for the visual search assistant and Materialarchiv.ch visit is a site done with the Oskope technology - with an additional RFID-Interface.

Don't miss these interesting startups and the great new Wuala Office and join us on 8th March 2010 starting 6.30pm!

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Please spread the word. Thanks!

Check out the job posting for Internet Marketing Manager at Ebay in Zurich in the file section of this project: http://www.amazee.com/node/257/files

Registration for the next Web Monday Zurich is open. Sign up in this magazine for the 13th Web Monday Zurich, which will take place on 8 March 2010 at Wuala.

Here some more cool events to check out:

http://www.amazee.com/business-chuchi
25 February (offermeatrip will present their business case)

http://www.amazee.com/startupcamp-switzerland-0
13 February in Basel, don't miss this great yearly event!

http://webtuesday.ch/
9 February

Yesterday the 12th Web Monday Zurich took place. Starting 6.30pm the LIIP/Nektoon office started filling up with more than 60 Web Monday members enjoying the delicious bagels and enjoying the Amboss beer, white wine and prosecco. Thanks again to LIIP/Nektoon and Andreas Hoffmann/UBS for sponsoring the event!

The presentations showed the great diversity of the Zurich Web Scence: Dorian Selz presented memonic.com, which allows its users to "keep the essential". Andreas Hoffmann presented the outcome of the Web 2.0 Competition run by UBS among the Web Monday Zurich community. He was very pleased that 35 great ideas and concepts have been entered with many ideas for UBS to follow up on. Congrats to the three winners! You can find Andreas' presentation here: http://www.amazee.com/node/257/files
Last but not least Maud Chatelet presented her interesting and useful startup Howtopedia.org, a collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies that are easily explainable and usable by individuals or small communities for a sustainable and ecological future.

Again it was great fun and I'm pleased to see the community growing with each event. Please contact me if you are interested in presented your startup and/or hosting one of the next events.

I'd also like to announce the StartupCamp here, which will take place on 13 February in Basel. Don't miss it: http://www.amazee.com/startupcamp-switzerland-0

8 more days until next Web Monday Zurich, which will take place on 18 January 2010.
Nektoon/LIIP will host the event for the third time at their office at Feldstrasse 133 in Zurich's "Kreis 4". More info on the location here:
http://www.liip.ch/contact
Andreas Hoffmann and UBS will sponsor the drinks & snacks. Drinks and snacks start at 6.30 p.m., the presentations start a bit after 7 p.m. and like every time lots of time to chat and network.
Thanks a lot in advance to Dorian Selz, Andreas Hoffmann and the other team members for hosting and sponsoring the event!

Here’s what to expect:
Andreas Hoffmann from UBS will announce the winners and the results of the UBS Social Media Competition, which has been launched at the last Web Monday @ Google
Dorian Selz will present Memonic, Nektoon's first product, which helps you capture, organize and use content on the web. -> http://www.memonic.com
Maude Chatelet will present Howtopedia, a collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies that are easily explainable and usable by individuals or small communities for a sustainable and ecological future. -> http://www.howtopedia.org

Please RSVP in the project magazine to announce your presence!

Looking forward to a fun first Web Monday in 2010!
Cheers, Dania

Pollenizer Lunch Workshop "Startup: Focus or Fail" - by Mick Liubinskas, co-founder of Pollenizer, ex-CMO of KaZaA
Location: Restaurant Gnüsserei, Puls5 (just next to Technopark), Zurich, www.gnuesserei.ch

Address: Giessereistrasse 18, CH-8005, Zürich

Schedule:
12.00 - Come along
12.15 - Workshop
13.00 - Interactive session & lunch: sharing stories of focus failure and success
14.00 - End

Register: on the right column in this project on Amazee.

Description: Focus or Fail - it's that simple. Mick’s talk is an excellent overview of why focus matters if you want to succeed, how focus directly influences your results and how to obtain focus (or re-focus). Mick will present a methodology for startups of how to find focus, keep it and execute on it. He'll take some real examples from the audience and demonstrate how to apply the approach. We'll then invite the audience to share stories of focus failure and success through focus, and what their learnings were.

Cost: No cost for the workshop. Ordering lunch is optional on own tab.

About Mick Liubinskas:
Mick was CMO for Kazaa, Tangler and Zapr and now runs web-strategy and product marketing for Pollenizer, a company that helps you build and grow your web business. http://www.pollenizer.com/content/mick-liubinskas

For more information contact: Amir Suissa Phone: +41 79 466 44 68 Email: amir@pollenizer.com

Lots of thanks to Google and their wonderful team who hosted yesterday's Web Monday at Google Switzerland (Brandschenkestrasse 110) and took us for a tour through their working paradise. For those who didn't have the chance to participate: Speakers were Prof. Manfred Vogel from FHNW, Joaquin Cuenca Abela from Panoramio and Andreas Hoffmann from UBS with a contest you find all informations in the file section of this project. Don't miss it: 3x CHF 5'000 to be won. More infos on http://blog.amazee.com/web-monday-at-google/

Sorry guys, the event is full, we have over 130 registrations! You cannot sign up anymore for the next Web Monday on 30 November.

As already mentioned you need to fill in a form to attend the 11th Web Monday Zurich @ Google offices in Zurich. Here it is: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHRsRTVCZmxKSWFCZ2tHSml...

Please fill it in, otherwise we cannot guarantee that you can smoothly pass the Google security check!
Looking forward to seeing many of you next Monday, 30 November 2009 starting 6.30pm.

Great news for us: the next Web Monday will take place at the Google offices in Zurich. Thanks a lot to Rupert Breheny, Christian Miccio, Simon Raess and Renee Laplante for their efforts :)

Sign up on the right in this project magazine and save the evening of 30th November.

PLEASE NOTE that you will have to fill in a separate form from Google to attend the Web Monday. I will post the link about 10 days before the event.

Looking forward to seeing many of you on 30th November!

http://startwerk.ch/2009/10/21/web-monday-10-buchen-und-streamen/#more-1...

Unfortunately Panoramio will not be able to present at the upcoming Web Monday. But we found another great second speaker to support Johannes Reck with GetYourGuide.com: Pascal von Rickenbach will present his startup StreamForge and tell us why peer-assisted streaming is the future of multimedia streaming over the internet! Don't miss it and sign up now!

Dear Web Monday Zurich members

We have four announcements and dates for you to reserve!

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT WEB MONDAY
The next Web Monday Zurich is taking place on 19 October 2009 at the Amazee Office in Technopark Zurich. The hosts will be GetYourGuide an online platform for tours, attractions and activities in closed beta and Panoramio, which was acquired by Google in July 2007. Both will present their products and companies.
Sign up here in the right section of the project magazine.

NEW MEETUP – POLITIK-FORELL-E
The new German-speaking meet-up Politikforell-e is for all of you interested in a regular exchange about the digitalization of democracy and politics. The first event will take place on 13 October 2009 and presented by Andreas Amsler from politnetz.ch.
Find out more and register here: http://www.amazee.com/politikforelle

MARKETING CHUCHI
Back after the summer break, we will have Matthias Sala of Gbanga presenting his case on 15 October 2009. As you might have seen, their posters were all over Zurich this summer!
Those interested in Gbanga’s marketing strategy can sign up here: http://www.amazee.com/marketing-chuchi

BUSINESS CHUCHI – Wuala goes LaCie
Not long ago, our friends from Wuala merged their company with Paris domiciled LaCie. Dominik Grolimund, Wuala’s CEO and member of LaCie’s management board, will be joining our next Business Chuchi on 2 November 2009 to tell us about the deal.
Those interested in business talk can sign up here: http://www.amazee.com/business-chuchi

Lots of learnings and happy networking!
Dania

6 more days until next Web Monday Zurich, which will take place on August 31st.
Nektoon/LIIP will host the event for the second time at their great office at Feldstrasse 133 in Zurich's "Kreis 4". More info on this very nice location here:
http://www.liip.ch/contact
Thanks a lot in advance to Patrice Neff , the Nektoon and Liip team! Drinks and snacks start at 6.30 p.m., the presentations start a bit after 7 p.m. and like every time lots of time to chat and network.

Here’s what to expect:
Sven Rizzotti from syndc (formerly: Syndicate) and Arnaud Bertrand from HouseTrip will present their interested web products – both still in stealth mode and both winners of Venture Leaders 2009! Find out more about them here:
http://syndc.com/
http://www.housetrip.com/
Furthermore Andy Waar from magmag media will give us a demo of his cool online magazine tool: http://www.magmagmedia.ch/

Please RSVP in the project magazine to announce your presence!

Looking forward to the next week! Cheers, Dania

Es ist wieder Zeit für spannende, unternehmerische Begegnungen und Unterhaltung bei der Venture Cocktail (http://venturecocktail.com) in Zürich am 27. August 2009 am 19.00 im Cafe Restaurant Aubrey an der Schiffbaustrasse 10, CH-8005 Zürich, Tel. +41 44 440 0020 in Züri West.

Anmeldung und Information: http://www.amazee.com/venture-cocktail

After a break in July, entrepreneurs, inventors, creative people and investors are again invited to network and exchange exciting business ideas at the Venture Cocktail (http://venturecocktail.com) in Zürich on 27 August 2009. Cafe Restaurant Aubrey, Schiffbaustrasse 10, CH-8005 Zürich, Tel. +41 44 440 0020 in the Züri West

Registration and information: http://www.amazee.com/venture-cocktail

UX CHUCHI
As mentioned at the last Web Monday Zurich, there is a User experience session aka UX Chuchi taking place on 30 July at the Amazee office. This is the chance for all user interface pros that would like to help us improve the user experience on Amazee. Please sign up here: http://www.amazee.com/ux-chuchi

SALESFORCE SESSION
On 18 August we’ll have a special marketing chuchi: André Ryf from the company PARX is a Salesforce CRM specialist and will give us an intro into CRMs. What is the benefit for a Web startup to use a CRM such as Salesforce? How can I manage my clients, users, press contacts, etc? What are the first steps to get going? How much does it cost? Interested? Sign up here: http://www.amazee.com/marketing-chuchi As always, it’s free!

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE NEXT WEB MONDAY
The next Web Monday Zurich is taking place on 31 August 2009. So far we already know that there will be two interesting startups presenting: Syndicate and HouseTrip – both still in stealth mode and both winners of Venture Leaders 2009. Don’t miss it and sign up here: http://www.amazee.com/web-monday-zurich

Looking forward to seeing you at one of the upcoming events! Have a happy summer time ☺

Dear Web Monday Zurich members!
6 days to go until next Web Monday on 6 July! Here a short update:

LOCATION
The next Web Monday will take place in the Amazee Office at Technopark Zurich (Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zurich). Drinks start at 6.30 pm, the presentations shortly after 7pm.

SPEAKERS
Again we have two very different startups presenting:

Stefan M. Seydel and Tina Piazzi will introduce rebell.tv to us. Rebell.tv is a very creative multimedia site consisting of web TV, radio, blog and an innovative online magazine. It wants to provide us with a different perspective on information and news, but you have to check it out yourself: http://rebell.tv

Benjamin Boeser and Carlo Schwarz will present their Munich-based startup Bee5: Bee5 is Affiliate Marketing 2.0 and introduces a new way to monetize your Web 2.0 application by using an API. Check out http://www.bee5.de

SIGN UP!
Don't miss next Web Monday and please RSVP on the right side of the project magazine.
Looking forward to the next Web Monday!

Hi there,
We would like to welcome everybody at Web Monday to join your fellow entrepreneurs and investors at the Venture Cocktail on the last Thursday of every month for an open exchange of ideas and networking.

The next one is on 25 June 2009 from 19.00 to 22.00. Sign up at http://www.amazee.com/venture-cocktail or Xing.

We usually meet at Cafe / Restaurant Aubrey on Technopark Square at:
Schiffbaustrasse 10, CH-8005 Zürich, Tel. +41 44 440 0020.

Location: http://www.aubrey.ch/pages/location.php

You are welcome to cross post the Web Monday events on the Venture Cocktail project page.

Look forward to seeing you.

Dear Web Monday Zurich members,

one week to go until next Web Monday on 18 May! Here a short update:

LOCATION
The next Web Monday will take place at the Wuala Office in Altstetten (Buckhauserstrasse 30, 8048 Zurich). Drinks start at 6.30 pm, the presentations shortly after 7pm.

SPEAKERS
We have two great startups presenting:

Shafqat Islam will introduce his Geneva-based startup NewsCred (http://www.newscred.com). NewsCred is a digital newspaper that allows its users to read all the world’s credible news in one place. The community then votes on the credibility of articles, journalists and news sources. Shafqat will tell us about his experience going from a corporate guy to an entrepreneur and all the twists and turns of running NewsCred.

Mark Seall will present the London-based startup MapVivo (http://www.mapvivo.com), a new social travel experiences web site that enables travelers to bring their journeys to life by sharing images, text and video using a virtual map. Mark recently joined MapVivo from his previous startup company Greenoptions.com, which has been sold to Virgance earlier this year.

SIGN UP!
Don't miss next Web Monday and please RSVP directly to your right in the event widget!

Looking forward to the next Web Monday!

Cheers, Dania

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Dear Web Monday Zurich members!

Only 8 days to go until next Web Monday on 30 March! Here the last update:

LOCATION
Back to the roots! The next Web Monday will take place, where Web Monday was born: at the Amazee Office (Newton 2012) in Technopark Zurich. Drinks and snacks start at 6.30pm, the presentations start a bit after 7pm and like every time there's lots of time to chat and network.

SPEAKERS

Expect two very interesting - and very different - presentations:

Jonathan Maim will introduce his Lausanne-based Startup Minsh (http://www.minsh.net). Minsh is an underwater virtual world where each fish represents a Twitter user and offers you a new way to visualize your network. He's just back from an exciting Silicon Valley trip and is about to launch the Alpha version of the Minsh virtual world.

Jürg Cathomas from the Swiss Federation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (Schweizerischer Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband, http://www.sbv-fsa.ch/) will be joining us. He'll tell us about the hurdles he has to master and the tools blind people use to surf the internet. Expect some interesting insights!

SIGN UP!
Please RSVP to your right in the event box so we know how many beers to buy and cool :)

Looking forward to the next Web Monday!

Cheers, Dania