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It’s time again for Echtzeit Berlin at our zanox Campus: The German start-ups network Deutsche Startups is once more organising Echtzeit Berlin, a get-together for young and successful start-up founders, business angels and investors. The upcoming edition of Echtzeit Berlin on Wednesday, 27 May 2009, will deal with the topic „Mobile“ and includes two expert speeches by Stefan Bielau of the mobile TV platform dailyme.tv and Clemens Kabel of IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft. As usual, there’s a lot of time for networking afterwards. The last Echtzeit Berlin in February 2009 hosted more than 170 guests.

Everybody who is interested to take on a sponsorship for Echtzeit Berlin can easily get in contact with Deutsche Startups here. That’s also where you can get more information on how to sign-up for the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our Berlin zanox  Campus soon!

Last week we signed our agreement with the Plug&PlayTechCenter in Sunnyvale, CA, at the Plug&Play Expo over there. From 1 June 2009 we will have a zanox pavillion with eight desks and one meeting area. It will be located right next to the Apple AppStore & Stanford University co-op and our colleague Chris Loonan will move over from our New York office. It was quite exiting to see all the positive feedback and reactions we got from all the participants we talked to at the Expo conference. No surprise they specially liked our monetization 2.0 t-shirts. They had 90 VC´s attending and 40 start-ups pitching. Those pitches were a very strong statement of the enormous creativity and brain power that comes out of the Valley. We now hope to participate in this and use the collective intelligence to generate and co-create new ideas and apps for our zanox Application Store. Have a look at the short video I took to get an impression of the event and the location:

The people who run the center are absolutly amazing! They welcomed us very warmly and I hardly saw a team with a more positive spirit. Big thanks again to Kayvan, Saeed, Jupe, Candace and Jacky. You guys are great!

So, if anybody is interested to meet us over there or to use our facilities please get in contact and we will discuss opportunities.

Following the great success of our Berlin-based zanox Campus, we now decided to open a second Campus in the heart of Silicon Valley! It will serve as a new open meeting point for publishers, start-up businesses and developers. Designed as a Think Tank for modern web-based business models, projects and partners in Silicon Valley, we created it to support new online talents. We would also like to use both Campuses, Berlin and Silicon Valley, as an open exchange space for all our partners across the US and Europe.

With our first US-based zanox Campus, we would like to invite the creative community in Silicon Valley to help us promote and pursue innovation within our industry. In return, we will offer access to our affiliate network’s infrastructure, our partners and last but not least attractive investment opportunities for the most promising business models. This is where our just recently launched  $2 Million zanox Application Store Contest comes in.

If you are interested in learning more, just drop by from 5 pm onwards today at the Plug & Play TechCenter in San Francisco: Our CEO Thomas Hessler will officially announce the new zanox Campus during the cocktail reception. Some first pics and impressions are to follow shortly! Hope to see you in the Valley soon!

Past Friday piabo had invited 8 other Berliner Internet companies to gather for a nice afternoon/ evening in the sand.

Berlin also has its beaches – this one especially for Beach Volleyball. Here the water doesn’t come from the ocean but down from the sky in little drops… Despite the bad weather conditions the zanox team was close to Olympia shape. We missed the final by few points. Congratulations to mokono who were the winners of the tournament! Well played!

zanox now is back in training for the next tournament to bring home a gold medal!

More impressions from the tournament here.