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Upcoming European Startup Conferences and Events

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On April - 16 - 2009

Here is a summary of the most important upcoming events in Europe.
We will try to cover as much of them as possibile.

Share your online identities in real life with E

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On April - 16 - 2009

This is E, an Amsterdam startup that launched today at The Next Web. The company promises to join all your online profiles and let you share them with any internet-capable mobile phone or using a specific usb-dongle called Connector, thus replacing business cards.

With E, you can create many different virtual cards and share the most appropriate depending on the situation you’re in (party, conference, meeting). Not only will you get all of the person’s details without having to keep  their business card, but if they change their email address or phone number the changes will get automatically pushed to your contact information.

Connector, the usb device used to exchange information is equipped with a high quality lithium polymer battery which allows you to use it for 72 hours on a 2 hour charge, it holds two E Business Cards and connects to RFID tags as well as other Connectors. Wondering why would you need this? Actually you don’t need it at all, just connect to m.mynameise.com or wait for one of the native iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and WebOS apps that have been announced.

The company is privately funded and explained their business model as being a mix of premium features, b2b services and hardware (Connector) sales.

Amsterdam welcomes The Next Web conference

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On April - 15 - 2009

The european internet startup scene has gathered in Amsterdam for this 3-days amazing conference.

Technology entrepreneurs, start-ups, innovators, venture capitalists, industry journalist, bloggers and simple geeks will attend keynotes and speeches given by internet celebrities such as Matt Mullenweg, Eric Meyer and Jeff Jarvis. Speakers include high level executives from Google, Yahoo! and Level 3 as well as entrepreneurs (SoundCloud, Imeem), venture capitalist and writers.

The agenda is really interesting. While today was the “unconference”, with Mobile DevCamp and “The Current Web”, tomorrow the real show begins.

The agenda includes a “Rising Sun Start-up Rally” that will surely have an important role in the event. The 19 companies that will have the chance to pitch to VCs and bloggers have been selected out of 200 with the help of twitter and a special voting system.

Take a look at their agenda, speakers and startup finalists.

We will be back with more posts regarding the event and hopefully with videos of the keynotes!