Lingueo.com is a marketplace for learning languages. Viktoria met Lingueos  founders Arnaud Portanelli, Johann Querne and Guillaume le Dieu de Ville at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Prices of Lingueos one-to-one classes start as low as 10 per hour - students only pay for the time they spend in the course room with the first five minutes being for free. Founder Guillaume points out: Right now we offer 36 languages among them regional languages - with 600 tutors coming from more than 60 countries. Courses can be taken any time, any place. @ Palais de Tokyo, March 2009 in Paris, France

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Xchar.com, a social community network for online gamers, has been bought by its former Technical Officer: Jens Sauer, who is now Xchars CEO, recounts I thought it to be a great idea only that the founders werent that good… Xchar is making revenues both through advertisement and special services for users. According to CFO Lutz Nathusius, they are on the route to profitability @ Start Up Camp Cologne, March 2009 in Cologne, Germany

Bochum-based DJTUNES.com is one of the leading download platforms for electronic music worldwide and is addressing the club culture of the future. DJTUNES offers digital music based on a revenue share model: The download model is a very solid business model finds CFO Achim Illner, you give content and get money for it. DJs get a track in the highest quality on a legal basis

@ Start Up Camp Cologne, March 2009 in Cologne, Germany

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In the end of the 90s, Sun was in the relevant set of startups, but throughout the years, Sun lost touch with them, says Christian Mueller, Community Manager Startups of  Suns Startup Essentials Program. In order to get back in contact with startups, Sun Microsystems set up the Startup Essentials Program. Theres even a twitter account with additional information http://twitter.com/Sun4Startups The company also co-organized the Start Up Camp Cologne and other startup events throughout Germany @ Start Up Camp Cologne, March 2009 in Cologne, Germany

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CaptchaAd.com is the Champ of the Camp, the winner of the Start Up Camps startup competition. Co-founder Alexander explains: CaptchaAd is the first provider of captchas combined with online advertising. Our product substitutes captchas on websites with captcha ads, i.e. in certain processes like commenting articles in blogs or registrations where captchas are often used. He adds: Everyone who uses captchas could be our customer, but blogs are one of our main target groups

@ Start Up Camp Cologne, March 2009 in Cologne, Germany

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Sonntagmorgen.com, co-founded by Till Achinger, is all about mass customized coffee: We take the magic out of making coffee blends by providing our customers with the possibility of creating their own blend. They can mix Single Origins from all over the world, explains Till and adds its not such a big secret as the marketing of the big roasteries are trying to tell you. If you mix up two or three Single Origins you get a nice blend that perfectly matches your taste@ Start Up Camp Cologne, March 2009 in Cologne, Germany

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YIID stands for "your internet id"and it's an identity hub combined with social search, realised through Marco Ripanti. More specifically it is an aggregator for identities and social activities. YIID seems to be a combination of friendfeed and 123people. You can set up your own profile page, displaying all your different web-identities and the content you produce at typical web2.0-sites. Marco believes in the open web, supporting open standards like openID. That way you can bring in all your content, but also take them out again.

Marco is looking for partners who generate any kind of user generated content, pushing it in a new dimension and through that generating more attention and user.

YIID emerged out of the former project communipedia, which was supposed to be some sort of meta-community or community search engine. Behind YIID stands Marcos company ekaabo, which develops special interest communities.

The interview was taken at the SUN Ctartup Camp in Cologne, more interviews of that event you can find here.  

Joerg Binnenbruecker managing director @ DuMont Venture shares precious insights from the venture capital industry: You have to be both committed, passionate and authentic. And you have to be able to explain your idea within five minutes so that someone like me whos not into the details can understand it. If I go for an investment, its like a marriage for five years… If you want to contact Joerg, its best to meet him at conferences or you can write him an e-mail to joerg.binnenbruecker@dumontventure.de
@ Start Up Camp Cologne, March 2009 in Cologne, Germany

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Vasco Sommer-Nunes started his first internet business in 1997. Fascinated by blogging as it evolved, he picked up on it and now runs mokono.com, Germanys blog portal with the largest reach. Lots of energy, persistence and determination is needed for funding a business in Germany says Vasco. He encourages any entrepreneurial soul to open up the window of opportunity that is open now for him even in this climate of crisis and change. The point is to build a good application, to have a good product and to develop reach@ omlb, March 2009 in Berlin, Germany

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Christian Boris Schmidt organizes the Online Marketing Lounge Berlin since 2006: Since Berlin is a capital for startups and online marketing, it is crucial to have these quarterly events here in the city. Besides organizing the omlb, Christian co-founded Ecato.com: Ecato is a marketplace network - we enable websites to create an own marketplace with products they like and pay them for clicks to online shops @ omlb, March 2009 in Berlin, Germany

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