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Subway friending site Submate wins Startup 2.0

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:33:17 +0000

Submate, a Paris-based social network for people who want to meet other users of the subway, won this year’s Startup 2.0 competition. Second place was for Minube, a social network for travelers, and third went to Askaro, a project founded by Ubaldo Huerta, who sold his first startup to eBay 6 years ago.

Submate is a solution to meet new interesting people and discover things to do in the areas around a subway. The project was started up in Paris four months ago and has already deployed in London, New York, Hong Kong, and, since last weekend, in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Bilbao. You can use it both on the site and on an iPohne app.

So these are the finalists in the Startup 2.0 competition

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:43:38 +0000

After the jury and popular votes on Facebook, we are able to announce the names of the 5 finalist projects in the Startup 2.0 competition. This year only social networks were accepted and we are pretty happy, as almost 100 European sites took part in the contest. 5 of them will be presenting their projects in Bilbao on Friday:

- Stereomood: a way to suggest songs that follow your feelings: stereomood is the emotional internet radio, providing music that best suits your mood and your activities, that you can share with your friends!

- Good Job: Independent and revolutionary website, done by users that want to know the world of work through the voice of those who belong to it. In a completely anonymous way you can rate your company, tell your experience, compared it with others and find out where are the better places to work.

- Askaro: is a hyperlocal site to meet needs and share information in the nearest field: the neighborhood or workplace. The idea is simple, you can ask a question on a specific location putting it on a map to see if someone who knows the area gives you an useful and disinterested answer.

- Submate: Meet, discover, share. Every day. On your way! You just have to tell SubMate your subway trips: station in, station out, and an approximate timing. Around your trips, you’ll discover cool new people, the familiar strangers you see every day! Discover everything happening along your commutes: concerts, happy hours, restaurant reviews.

- Minube: Minube is a travel community for travel’s lovers, that allows users to get inspirations to decide their destinations, plan trips and share all their travel experiences.

Which is your favorite? Remember that people coming to nonick will be voting.

Entries open for nonick, Bilbao’s upcoming European internet event

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:20:17 +0000

nonick, an event jointly organised by eitb.com and Spri with the collaboration of Alianzo, will this year also play host to the final of the Startup 2.0 contest where the best of the European startups will compete. ‘Startup’ refers to a new enterprise that is trying to break into the market with an innovative product.

With two previous contests already taken place, Startup 2.0 has become recognised as the most important competition of its kind on the continent, testament to which are sponsorship agreements with the UK’s Seedcamp and France’s le Web, both unmissable events for internet entrepreneurs in London and Paris alike.

The last competition was held in Barcelona, where a total of 400 projects were presented from across 30 European countries. Entry to this year’s competition will be open until 14th April.

Users can vote for the best projects via internet until the registration and voting period closes on 14th April. The 10 finalists will then present their projects at nonick in front of an international jury made up of web experts, representatives from capital-risk firms and successful entrepreneurs.