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Fun Webmonday in Zurich

Last night Techies,developers and startups came together at the 5th webmonday held in Zurich to listen to two informal presentations. One given by Hannes Gassert of LIIP, who hosted the evening, with snacks beer and wine, and another by Jani Penttinen on his Finish start up -XIHA Life a mutilingual lifestyle site. Great exchange of ideas took place among the forty or so people there.
Ideas take wings at events like these, so thanks to Amazee for arranging the webmonday nights in Zurich.
The photos above show my journey to #webmonday from arrival in Zurich to departure by train into big snow at St Gottard.

Wisequeen's carriage 1st class Swiss

Serial entrepreneur Nicolas Berg in Switzerland

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I’ve been talking to tech companies and new startups in Zurich, Zug and around the hub of Switzerland again.
It’s no secret that it’s becoming the new Silicon valley as I’ve written about in previous posts. Not suprisingly, social media has taken off there, with twitter seeing many Swiss German tweets.
I spoke with Nicolas Berg who is a man who not only dreams and plans big, but has been instrumental in so many startups becoming successful companies.
I remember the launch of Poken for social media at Zurich tech start ups.
I’ll be asking him about this and his passion for business, in his forthcoming interview here. Don’t miss it on wisequeen.com
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Nicolas Berg, Partner at Redalpine Venture Partners

Nicolas Berg, partner at Redalpine Venture Partners, Country Manager Xing Switzerland, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, venturelab coach.
Since 2007 Redalpine manages an Early-stage Venture Fund based in Luxemburg that invests in highly scalable European start-up companies.
Redalpine partners were among the first European Web 2.0 investors in startups such as XING, StudiVZ, Students, Plazes, Hitflip, Tagworld, Kyte.tv and Trigami.
2000-2007 Nicolas managed 16 angel investments (ICT, e.g. XING, and live science, e.g. Neurotune. 2006-2008 he achieved several successful exits (IPO, trade-sales).
1984-2005 he has co-founded 8 start-ups, e.g. borsalino.ch, a leading Swiss financial portal for private investors. It was acquired by Ringier, the leading publisher, in 2000.
For several years Nicolas has worked as a technology and finance journalist. Since 2005 he gives venturelab workshops for entrepreneurs at Swiss universities.
He is a jury member for several awards, e.g. Venturekick, Swiss Tech Tour, Swiss Venture Club, Swiss Angel of the Year, and Heuberger Jungunternehmerpreis.
Nicolas graduated as M.Sc. (BA) at the University of Bern in 1985. He lives in Solothurn with his family.

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