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Frank Spandl

Frank Spandl is the founder of Greenguin. During his studies for architecture he become deeply involved in eco-architecture and sustainable design. Later as a director of a project management firm, he was amongst the founders of Germany’s Green-Building system. And when he worked for various international environmental engineering companies, he came across many Green and… Read more »

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Knowable is a social business network in Berlin, created by Simon Höher, Ansgar Schürmann and Emanuel Schwarz. Simon is responsible for the network, business development and contacts with partners; Emanuel knows front end website design; and Ansgar is specialized in backend web development. They are interested in creating and summarising practical knowledge, which could be… Read more »

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Justin McMurray is the founder of SomewhereHQ. He has already been featured as the start-up of the week. He recently won the betapitch, so we decided to interview him again. He grew up in Australia and finished school with a degree in Commerce and Marketing in Australia. He afterwards worked for IBM for some time…. Read more »

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The Terranauten is a project of professional  dancer Lisa Oettinghaus and freelance photographer Kay Strasser. They have developed a symbiotic project between dimensions of the creative worlds: text meets dance meets photography, creating something new. Terranauten explores spaces with gravity, and provides a relation between the act of flying, and the texture of the ground…. Read more »

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Gourmie is a culinary project by Fumiko Suzuki. She focuses on French, Italian and Japanese cuisine, yet always tries out new things. If you know the menu card of Gourmie , you can see there are no limits to the flavours she uses – from savory quiches to sweet tarts; vegetarian and meat curries, to… Read more »

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Kay Strasser is a freelance photographer based in Berlin. His photographs are self-confident, inspiring, and independent – as he is himself. His goal is to make his audience curious about different things. After 10 years working as a freelance journalist, Kay decided to become freelance artist. From 2000-2002, he worked as an assistant in Paris,… Read more »

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Sascha Konietzke is the founder of Thriventures, and the director of its main product, Storage Room. Storage Room is a cloud-based CMS (content-management system) for mobile and web applications, with which app developers can distribute, store and manage content. They no longer need to worry about creating a backend from scratch – something that would… Read more »

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Lorenz Graubner is the founder of Federball.de – a recently-founded company specialising in high-quality shuttlecocks for badminton players in Europe. A longtime badminton player, Lorenz founded Federball.de after noticing a lack of quality shuttlecocks available to professional players in Europe. The website, Federball.de, also serves as an online information platform for badminton players and enthusiasts,… Read more »

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Few things can be more frustrating than job-hunting – sending out endless generic CVs…

Pete Clifford

Pete Clifford is the Managing Director of Carolinas Food Services and moved to…

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Alexander Köppen-Dlugosch is a co-founder of PocketWeb, a company specializing in…

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Ruud van der Weide is the founder of FingerSpitzenGefühl – an online marketing company that seeks…

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Daniel Bartel (2nd from left) is one of the co-creators, along with Sebastian Ballweg and…

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Kann mein Iphone mir helfen fitter zu werden?! Mit FigureRunning joggen sogar Menschen, die das eigentlich langweilig finden….

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functionalaesthetics, das sind Chris Bleuel, Magdalena Cuber und Michael Ruß. Und eigentlich noch viele mehr, denn eine der Kernkompetenzen der drei Kommunikationsdesigner ist, immer die richtigen Leute zusammenzusammeln, um interaktive Projekte aus einer Hand umzusetzen. Magdalena, wieso heißt ihr functionalaesthetics? Chris und ich haben vor unserer Selbständigkeit in Berlin zusammen in einer Agentur gearbeitet und schon… Read more »

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Um seinen Schülern die Geografie Englands ins Gedächtnis zu meißeln, malte ein englischer Geografielehrer sämtliche Grafschaften vor rund 200 Jahren auf Holz auf, zersägte sie und ließ sie von seinen Schülern wieder zusammensetzen. Damit erfand er das Puzzle. Andreas Stammnitz kannte diese Geschichte nicht, hatte aber – viel später – dieselbe Idee. Seit eineinhalb Jahren… Read more »

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Ob Spielwiese, Kontaktbörse, Informationsquelle oder Kaufhaus – Glutamat konzipiert Online-Auftritte jeder Art. So breit…

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Max an seinem Desk im betahaus. Wer und was ist Konsole Labs? Konsole Labs besteht aus Tony und mir: Max. Tony wohnt in Dresden und ich in Berlin. Der Name entstand aus dem Begriff „Konsole“, der Eingabemöglichkeit für Befehle und „Labs“ von Labor (laboratory). Der Name soll verdeutlichen, dass wir keine Microsoft Office User sind,… Read more »

Clever Elements

Wer und was ist Clever Elements? Clever Elements sind 6 junge Männer, die eine online-software entwickelt haben für einen unkomplizierten newsletter Versand. Man kann sich dort einfach registrieren, mit seiner eigenen Versandadresse, ein Mailing entwerfen und über den clever element Server versenden. Clever Elements bieten kostenlose Vorlagen und Designs an. Man kann sich aber auch… Read more »

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betahaus: What and who is hidden behind greatcontent? Jasper: greatcontent is an online platform for the creation of small texts (100-350 words), which are often used in the areas of online marketing and advertisement but don’t have to. This works as follows. Who ever wants one or maybe a thousand texts places a short briefing… Read more »