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Felix Petersen presents Plazes.com

Remo Uherek — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:52:33 +0000

Felix Petersen is a founder of Plazes, a Zurich/Berlin based company which provides geo-location services. Felix agreed that I record his presentation at Red Herring 100 in Cannes:

Link: sevenload.com

Plazes has raised €2.7 mio early this year and is growing very fast. A cool thing about Plazes is that they want to digitize walk-in customers in offline settings and create what Felix calls the "PageRank of the real world". E.g. you can see how many people went to a certain restaurant or checked-in in a certain hotel. This opens cool opportunities for behaviorial targeting or related stuff.

More links:
Techcrunch coverage
Alarm Clock coverage
Peter Schüpbach’s coverage (he’s an investor)

Sugih Jamin presents Zattoo.com

Remo Uherek — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:31:55 +0000

Prof. Dr. Sugih Jamin is co-founder and CTO of the Swiss/American startup Zattoo, which offers free live-television via Internet. He agreed that I record his Red Herring 100 presentation in Cannes:

Link: sevenload.com

I had lunch with Sugih and learned several things:
- Zattoo launched in Switzerland because of the cheap licencing costs and the good coverage of the major Swiss TV-stations
- Zattoo has over 250’000 users only in Switzerland
- Zattoo started as a students-project of one of Jamin’s students
- Development is based in the US; business/marketing is based in Zurich
- The synchronization issues should be fixed soon (the cause of the problem was that Zattoo stopped using QuickTime for synchronization due to realiability issues)
- Zattoo will generate revenue with advertising that is displayed when a new channel is buffering (that takes about 5 seconds)

More Links:
Alarm Clock Euro June 2006
Alarm Clock Euro March 2007

For 150 EUR to Red Herring 100 in Cannes :-)

Remo Uherek — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:36:09 +0000

I am very happy that I was invited to the Red Herring Venture Market Europe 100 Event in Cannes. I’ll be blogging about cool startups and I hope to meet a lot of you guys.

Did I mention that I love EasyJet and EasyJetHotels? Thanks to these services these 3 beautiful days in Cannes will cost me less than 150 EUR (including flight & 3 nights). I hate it to throw money out of the window on airplanes and hotels.

Hope to see you in Cannes!