Web Services & Application Store Blog

With an overwhelming event the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Service Contest 2008 came to an end. More than 250 people met under the motto “Internet Republic Germany – entrepreneurs and politicians focus on the internet as a critical success factor” at the zanox GAP Campus. Andreas Thümmler, Corporate Finance Partners, handed over (symbolic) an 1 Mio Euro attaché case to contest winners representative Christian Sauer, Webtrekk.

“We will use the capital to make further improvements to our products, and in particular for the globalisation of our core product, Webtrekk Q3”, Webtrekk founder and Chief Executive Christian Sauer said.

ZANOX CEO Thomas Hessler announced a follower of the successful “1 Mio EUR zanox Web Service Contest 2008”, the “2 Mio $ zanox Application Store Contest”, that will be started at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, March 31 – April 3, 2009.

“After receiving so many impressive entries for our first contest last Autumn, zanox and our partners are keen to give start-ups a second opportunity to successfully monetize their business models with zanox Web Services,” said Thomas Hessler, CEO and founder of zanox. “With the current state of the worldwide economy, it’s become increasingly difficult for many of these companies to secure follow-up financing for their projects – this is where we would like to help.”

The ceremony event was also hosted by the leader of the German liberal Free Democratic Party, Guido Westerwelle, as a guest speaker.

Thanks to all for coming. All the other can get some impression through the huge bloggers echo, the event tweets and the flickr gallery. Stay tuned for more information to come about the new contest in this blog.

On 24 March 2009 zanox, Corporate Finance Partners and Mountain Partners celebrate the zanox 1 Mio Euro Web Services Contest winner Webtrekk. The who-is-who of the German internet szene celebrates together with Guido Westerwelle, leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), at the zanox GAP campus.

250 Guests from the German Online Szene are coming to the festive prize award and the following networking party. The event will be video-streamed to the web. If you would like to attend the event, just get in touch with your zanox contact person in order to receive a code you will need for signing up. Looking forward to seeing you at the contest winner party!

Second time the international e-commerce congress insight e-commerce took place in the heart of Germany – Jena, Thuringia. In the 27th floor of the Intershop Tower professionals came together to talk about the various facettes of e-commerce. This years focus where e-commerce in Eastern Europe with detailed reports from Russia, Slovakia, and others.

zanox had the pleasure to support this event as a sponsor, and Sebastian Wallroth, Director Innovation led a workshop entitled „Monetization Models with Performance based Affiliate Marketing for the Web 2.0“.

More than 200 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, programmers, bloggers, and Web 2.0 geeks met at the zanox GAP campus and made the zanox Web Services Contest Finale Night of Innovations 2008 a huge event on Friday, October 24th, 2008. The zanox Monetization 2.0 team of Mario Brockmann, Hoon Cho, Francesco Votta, and Sebastian Wallroth along with the zanox Web Services Team of Thomas Nicolai, Daniel Neubauer, Mira Gressard, Frank Ittermann, and Harro Harten giving a big thank to the zanox Marketing team of Uwe Bormann, Alexandra Lilienthal, and David Fauck for organising this great final event of the Berlin Web Week 2008.

Over the day the finalists of the 1,000,000 Euro zanox Web Services Contest 2008 presented to the jury consisting of the professionals Andreas Thümmler (Corporate Finance Partners) , Dr. Cornelius Boersch and Sebastian Kübler (Mountain Partners), and Thomas Hessler and Jens Hewald (zanox). The finalist where (in sort of presenting time):

Japarking.com, Italy, TRIBOO S.P.A., http://www.japarking.com

Communipedia, Germany, ekaabo GmbH, http://www.communipedia.com/

Mindmeister.com, Germany, mindmeister GmbH, http://www.mindmeister.com

Kingtonez, Sverige, Gordon Media, http://www.kingtonez.com/

iliketotallyloveit, Germany, iliketotallyloveit GmbH, http://www.iliketotallyloveit.com/

Beschenkmich.de, Germany, beschenk mich GmbH, http://www.beschenkmich.de/

neodiffusion / buyit, France, NeoDiffusion, SAR, http://www.codepromo.com/bon_plan_reduction_bebe.html

servtag, Germany, Servtag GmbH, http://servtag.com/

webtrekk.de, Germany, Webtrekk GmbH, http://www.webtrekk.de/

At 8:30pm the exitingly awaited announcement of the winners was celebrated by the jury: japarking.com, servtag, and webtrekk.de got a big hand from the audience. Now they are heading close conversions with Corporate Fincance Partners and Mountain Partners.

Thanks to enough wine, soft drinks, and cocktails the faux pas with the beer – off 6 minutes after opening the bar – was not that big topic of conversation as the twitter wall suggests than Web 2.0 business and strategy and the cute soccer playing robots presented by the innovative team FUmanoids of the Free University Berlin.

Thanks to all guests for coming, we hope to see you again soon.

As we use this blog to communicate with developers and publishers interested in the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Services Contest or at least the zanox Web Services we will have a beer at the Night of the Bloggers on September 16th, 2008 at 7 pm in the Düsseldorf Bar Konvex, Oberbilker Allee 26 A. See you there!

The organisers proudly announced today, that the BarCamp3 Berlin on October 18 + 19, 2008 will take place in the Berlin Representative Office of the Deutsche Telekom. zanox is glad to sponsor this event, giving a bit back to the community.

BarCamp3 is one in amazing long list of interesting events in Berlin this fall.

Monetisation 2.0 by zanox web services

Join us for the opening of our new zanox GAP (Global Alliance Partners) CAMPUS in Berlin. Meet the new zanox web services team and learn more about monetising applications 2.0.

Register here for the event!

Join the zanox webservices developer community on facebook.

What do we offer at the zanox GAP CAMPUS:

• New powerful zanox webservices for the monetisation 2.0


• A meeting point @zanox for publisher, advertiser and developer


• Space for events, trainings and monetisation projects


• Infrastructure, support and shared desks for the Global Alliance

Agenda

7:00 pm Start
7:45 pm Welcome Note, zanox Board
8:00 pm Panel Discussion, Video Cast: “Monetisation 2.0 by zanox web services”

Panelists:

• Dr. Mathias Döpfner, CEO Axel Springer AG


• Hans-Peter Rohner, CEO PubliGroupe


• Thomas Hessler, CEO ZANOX.de AG


• David Liu, Managing Director, Jefferies Broadview technology investment banking group


• Andreas Thümmler, Managing Director Corporate Finance Partners, Announcement of 1Mio EUR Venture Capital Investment from the campus sponsors for the winner of the zanox webservice contest.

8:30 pm Networking, Finger Food and Drinks
9:00 pm Party

Register now – seats are limited!

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Photos by C.B.Schmidt