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We talk German startup news with Feli (@Frau_Feli). Find all the links of the show notes on www.startuprad.io  Folge direkt herunterladen

On today's episode, we talk with Felicitas (@Frau_Feli) and Lyss (@BLYSS_choc) about the latest startup news from Germany and Europe. Tune in and find out what happened around the startup scene in January and why Feli is so excited about a new mobile banking startup. Update: The number26 card does not work as both – a credit and a debit card. Instead, it is a MasterCard that functions as a debit card. Read more on VentureVillage. Some insights: Industry 4.0: Opportunities and challenges of the industrial internet The Best Digital Business Models Put Evolution Before RevolutionHow much should I raise in my angel round? How should I spend it?Industry 4.0, Big Data and the cloud: driving tomorrow's innovationsA visual breakdown of venture capital trends & data in 2014The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015Alternative Lenders Dominate List of ’50 Best FinTech Innovators’ Folge direkt herunterladen

Today we talk to Pavlos from Dual Shaker, a fitness startup from Germany with production in China, sales in the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and France, as well as a pending global patent for their invention. We talk with Pavlos about entering the US, their plans for Brazil and for what they want to raise a Series A round of investment. Also, Pavlos announces a big surprise for the industry in April. Now turn in to learn more! Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the 2nd part of the interview with Sebastian from consulted, who is a German entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. In this part we talk how he decided to headquarter his company in the USA, the strategic reasons behind his move. We talk about the application process for the company, how to set up an LLC in Delaware, as well as his own visa application process. In this interview you will also find out why he made Stanford University search for its seal. You can find here the first part of our interview with Sebastian.  Originally published on December 27th 2014 Folge direkt herunterladen

Enjoy now the latest startup news from Germany in the second episode of startuprad.io. This time with Lyss and Joe. Folge direkt herunterladen

In the first of two interviews. We talk to Sebastian, who is a German entrepreneur decided to start with his idea in Silicon Valley to disrupt the consulting market. He headquartered his company in the valley and set up a branch close to his native home in Berlin. Sebastian tells us in the interview about the idea of an expert platform, where companies can hire experts to help them solve specific problems. Startups, small and medium enterprises can find and request advice from senior experts in their field to help them solve problems and get a holistic view of their problem. We discuss how consulted could fit into any project work and about building up the company in the USA. Tune in to learn more and listen to the second part of the interview here. Folge direkt herunterladen

We attended the second Startup Weekend in Frankfurt am Main / Rhein-Main region in Germany during October 2014. We did catch some of the teams to make a brief interview about their startup idea after the final pitch. Listen to the ideas and the potential founders who are all seeking capital. Sascha and Kan developed the idea of classboard.de, which is a one-way communication platform from teachers to their students.Costly sports gear is at the center of the idea of Hui and Karl. They want to develop a platform where one can rent expensive sports gear like surfboard, kayaks and the like.Christian lost his foreign language skills due to a surgery. He taught himself all the English you hear in this interview. He developed talkreal.org to teach other people languages with his own approach.One team was totally enchanted with the idea of the Startup Weekend. They want to set up a café to be a constant 24/7 startup weekend. We talk to Eldar. Also members of the team are Pavlos, Adam, Nazim, Chris, Remi, Maren, Florian and Thorsten.At the first startup weekend in Frankfurt, a team developed the idea what is today https://bettervest.de/. This is a platform which enables energy efficiency projects via crowdfunding. So we will continue to follow the teams and members of the projects and let you know what they are up to. Folge direkt herunterladen

Welcome to our first episode of Startuprad.io news. This time with startup news from the month October 2014. The startup news intent to give people, without knowledge of German, access to the German startup scene. We hope to keep you informed and entertained with our monthly news. Folge direkt herunterladen

Frankfurt is on its way to becoming one of the most important fintech hubs in Europe. One of the core initiatives to achieve this leadership positions is the monthly meeting “Between the Towers”. The sponsor of the meeting is main incubator, a Fintech only incubator, who is a subsidiary of Germany's second-largest listed Bank: Commerzbank. The first investment of main incubator was as lead investor of a 15 mio US$ Series B funding in the leader in B2B Dynamic Payments Traxpay. During a “Between the Towers”-Event we catch the CEO of main incubator Christian Hoppe and the CEO of Traxpay John Bruggeman for an interview. Turn in to hear what they have to say about Frankfurt, Fintech and financing rounds. If you are thinking of applying for main incubator, you can learn more here. Folge direkt herunterladen

We talk to Lyss from Blyss Chocolate, who originally from Australia, decided to set up her startup in Frankfurt, Germany. Blyss Chocolate offers quality chocolate and chocolate beans to retail and wholesale customers. We talk a lot about chocolate, food and how Lyss ended up in Frankfurt. To learn more about chocolate, take a look at her youtube video. For every non-German we are curious about how it was to set up a startup in Frankfurt as a German form of an Ltd (GmbH). In the interview she gives us her impression about the administrative work to set up a company in Germany. To our surprise, she really liked it … after an initial adjustment phase. She even calls “IHK (German Chamber of Commerce), Ordnungsamt (city department for code enforcement) and Finanzamt (German IRS) the wholly trinity of good startup advice in Germany.” We also talk about the transition from a corporate job with PowerPoint and Excel to become a hands-on entrepreneur and much more. Tune in to learn more. Folge direkt herunterladen

We talk to Anthony from productive mobile; from the first class of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Berlin. He is the co-founder of Evomob and Productive Mobile. Evomob provides its customers a non-coding method to transform a traditional website into a mobile website for smart phones or tablets. Anthony has an interesting story to tell, how he arrived with this company in Germany. We talk about studies in London, software companies in India and why one should get more information about a country before setting up shop there. Anthony and Joern agree that the world is flat and due to this the mobile internet is getting more and more important. Anthony tells us, how his “old company” Evomob pivoted during its time in the MS Accelerator, into the “new” company Productive Mobile. For Productive Mobile we discuss the help they have gotten from the Accelerator and which doors have been opened by Microsoft for Productive Mobile by the connections. Tune it to learn more. Shownotes: The world is flat by Thomas FriedmanThe world bank “doing business in ….”The quality of living by MercerThe pivot of a startup explained Folge direkt herunterladen