Peter Vesterbacka is founder and co-founder of companies like MobileMonday, ConnectedDay, Star Wreck Studios and works with Zipiko, a new high-end mobile service around intention.

Check out www.tiburon-tv.com for more about Peter Vesterbacka.

Serial entrepreneur Mathys van Abbe now introduces his fourth start-up Toading.com , the company that funds his hobby projects  like startpix, mobypicture and Spot2be. Toading is an advertising technology tool for organizations in the e-Commerce or e-Recruitment business helping them to save time and money. It enables those companies to link their website offers to online advertising campaigns, i.e. for Google and Yahoo. Toading generates ads for every specific product and service including important features like the exact price and the availability. According to Mathys van Abbe, Toading is quick to implement and reduces ad spending with 25% while increasing conversion rates of online advertising campaigns with up to 300%. 
While Toadings technology development is based in Budapest, Hungary, most of Toadings clients are currently in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Spain and Germany. With one or two competitors in the field, van Abbe is still very optimistic since there are lots of clients out there.

Mathys also presented his other startups to Tiburon-TV, check them at http://www.tiburon-tv.com/tag/mathys-van-abbe/.

BTW, the guy jumping through the video promoting Toading is Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com.

The Finish start-up Scred.com, founded by Kristoffer Lawson, focusses on banking for the 2.0 generation. Its version 1 has been successfully launched with around 1000 users already using this basic version. Version 2 with more exciting content will come out before christmas. Lawson tries to revolutionize the banking system by offering easy and fun-to-use tools to handle money. As the creative director of Alternative party - an art event in Helsinki he finds that money has always been a real headache. Users of Scred.com can simplify their money management among friends or on a trip by using Screds calculation, currency conversion and distribution tools and services. They can track debts between people and use Scred on their mobile even without connection!
Lawson, who already designed computer programs at age 7, just loves technology. He wants to make Scred extremely big and has no interest in focussing on the Finish market even if 50% of Screds users are from Finland right now. With regard to the financial crisis Lawson finds that time has worked in our favor since money is becoming more important. He adds: If you fail, its a stupid excuse, that its because of the recession.

Sense2Love.com is a social networking platform of bringing people together for love purposes. Launched in August 2008 by London-born Indian Anju Rupal, Sense2Love sets up a new paradigm of matchmaking by combining ancient traditions of matchmaking with new trends in social networking: Statistically, 57% of your partners are found through your network, while 10% are found online makes Sense2Loves success rate of up to 67%.
Using an invitation only network, Sense2Love helps you not only to find the partner that really matches you but to build sustainable relationships by using Sense2Loves communication styles. In workshops and roadshows Sense2Love teaches on how to keep heartaches low and the so called cup of love full. Sense2Love thereby takes a concept online that has already been proven in the U.S.
Sense2Love has an interesting way of making money: Before going on a blind date, you have the option to buy a present perfectly matched to the interest of the person youre about to meet, i.e. chocolate, a massage or even a week-end in a spa. Furthermore, they charge for the dinners they arrange.
Rupal and her co-founder and Business Angel Bill Liao, who is also co-founder of xing.com, are themselves looking for business partners to take Sense2Love global. Rupal, who co-founded her first business Finaxis AG seven years ago, believes its all about execution. You really have to believe in what you do, be passionate about it and then go for it, full power especially in the economic climate we have right now.

Busuu.com is a start-up, based in Madrid, which runs a free online community for learning languages. Launched in May 2008 by Austrian Bernhard Niesner and his university friend Adrian Hilti from Liechtenstein, busuu.com already has 50.000 users from 200 countries, some of them pretty remote. Niesner and Hilti decided to create a new concept of learning languages online and include also less known languages so that they do not extinct. The company name itself is a language spoken in Cameroon by only eight people!
Using an integrated video-chat application, students can connect with native speakers, i.e. an English language student from Sudan can directly practice his language skills with an American in New York City. With a high percentage of users in developing countries, busuu.com makes it easy and fun for everybody to learn a language and contributes to the diversity of languages all over the world. Busuu.com is also ideal to prepare a trip by making friends before visiting a country and thus make international friends. On busuu.com one can even learn the almost extinct whistling language Silbo Gomero, spoken by the people of the Spanish island La Gomera. 
Busuu.com can be used completely for free as a basis-member. To get access to additional learning tools and content, one has to pay a small amount per month. Therefore, Niesners christmas wish is not surprising:Unlimited google ad resources for one year.

Swedish IT-Entrepreneur Jonas Birgersson, a.k.a broadband Jesus, now talks about his start-up company ViaEuropa. ViaEuropa is about to revolutionize the telecom sector by putting a fiber cable beside the electrical cable and Via Europas ecosystem on top of it. The enduser can then choose any operator he wants. Birgersson, whose background is in Military Intelligence, points out that this is a fully neutral, open system where the enduser is the winner. The only thing we do is to put away the strange structure of the telecom sector and build a normal marketplace. Everybody is invited to compete on equal terms. This is how it works in all other businesses except the telecom sector.
ViaEuropas model is already fully proven in Scandinavia, but once it is proven outside of Scandinavia within the next one or two years, the telecoms will be in big trouble. So it is not astonishing that Jonas Birgersson is one of the most hated people in the Telecom sector since many years.  But according to Birgersson its about reinventing ideas - if you are loved, youre not an entrepreneur, youre not disruptive enough.
ViaEuropa is especially interested in the emerging markets both in Africa and South america. Birgersson cites a study that shows that in developing countries 1% increase in broadband penetration results in a 3% extra GDP growth.  
Jonas Birgersson is a serial entrepreneur, he founded Bredbandsbolaget, framfab and is also CEO of the Swedish broadband company Labs2, based in Lund. In order to make the world an even more interesting place, his advice is: If you have talent, use it to the maximum potential you have!