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Berlin Startup Map
- msturm 13y agoSomething's broken. The map disappears when I click on a pin.
- sebkomianos 13y agoEven when it wasn't broken, the user interface is pretty bad. When you clicked on a pin you couldn't do anything else until you closed that pin. So to open a new pin you had to close the previous one, whose popup box might have been outside of the map region you were viewing. I am voting up because I like this sort of aggregators and I would pretty much like to see it fixed - or open sourced maybe?
- rootuid 13y agosame here in Chrome and ie
- chadwickthebold 13y agoIf you want to see an area startup aggregator that's both beautiful and useful, check out Silicon Shire (Eugene/Springfield OR) http://siliconshire.org/ http://siliconshire.org/
- rattray 13y agoThanks for sharing. I've heard great things about Eugene but didn't know it had much of a startup scene.
- aidos 13y agoInteresting. Definitely a lot going on over there. I almost expected to see all the markers centered on a handful of cafes in Kreuzberg[x] :) [x] not that I've been to Berlin in a few years - just seems like the right place for the culture (ps, I love berlin)
- perlpimp 13y agoWhen selecting one of the startups map disappears and I can't make another selections.Looks broken...
- guyfawkes303 13y agoGreat timing, I actually started researching moving from Colorado to Berlin yesterday. This only adds fuel to the fire.
- peterjmag 13y agoHa, awesome! I moved here from Colorado last April, and I'm loving it so far. I highly recommend it. =) Get in touch if you want some pointers—I'm happy to help! (My email's in my profile.)
- lunarprose 13y agoIs there a Colorado > Berlin movement starting? Am planning to visit there for a good month over the next year. :)
- mokkol 13y agoI was in Berlin this weekend and absolutely loved it. Somebody knows some nice resources for jobs in Berlin? Im a Rails / Javascript / iOs developer.
- pimeys 13y agoMy workmate wrote this service: http://marsjobs.net/jobs http://marsjobs.net/jobs Also, we're hiring Ruby developers (actually more Ruby than Rails in the future) right now: http://sponsorpay.com/careers http://sponsorpay.com/careers
- exit 13y ago"intern" seems inordinately popular. what's that about - keeping wages low?
- sashthebash 13y agoWe're looking for all three. https://www.contentful.com/jobs/ https://www.contentful.com/jobs/
- tpsc 13y agoThis looks helpful: http://berlinstartupjobs.com/ http://berlinstartupjobs.com/
- wellboy 13y agoYes this site gets a looot of traffic.
- suttree 13y agoI moved to Berlin from London just about 18 months ago. The startup scene here is very good, it's a whole different feeling in terms of the spirit and the people. Come visit us if you're in town, we often have people in to say hello :) https://www.somewhere.com/suttree https://www.somewhere.com/suttree
- wellboy 13y agoThere are so many entrepreneurs and startups in Berlin. There are probably even more startup events there than in San Francisco, it's a very vibrant scene. However, there is just noooo money in Berlin. The reason for that is that there are no successful tech entrepreneurs who have been successful previously to fuel the ecosystem. So all the money you have is money from Angels that are lawyers, dentists or who have a big family business. Also, German young entrepreneurs just can't think big. There are a few that do, but the "taking-over-the-world" mentality in Germany is just not there as in the U.S. They more like to create a cookie delivery business. (this just got six figures in funding)
- pantalaimon 13y ago> the "taking-over-the-world" mentality in Germany is just not there The last time we've tried that, it didn't end so well…
- zinssmeister 13y agoslow clap for this lame joke.
- lgieron 13y agoOn the other hand, I find it hilarious. Face it, what Germans did in WWII was so horrifying that it will be remembered and associated with them for a long time.
- iagooar 13y agoLOL
- TillE 13y agoIt's the perfect place to bootstrap a small not-technically-a-startup-by-certain-definitions company, though. Fantastic place to live, still quite cheap, etc. It's close to the ideal environment for an indie games studio, for example. Not looking to make massive piles of money and scale to infinity, just explore creatively and grow slowly.
- jot 13y agoHere is a London equivalent: http://roundabout.io/ http://roundabout.io/
- namenotrequired 13y agoNetherlands: http://dutchstartupmap.com/ http://dutchstartupmap.com/
- virtuz 13y agoI like them all. But seriously, I really wish all of these would roll into http://startupgenome.com http://startupgenome.com instead of having their own sites.
- lovskogen 13y agoSweet. I actually just arrived in Berlin today, starting as a product designer for EyeQuant tomorrow. Looking forward to this. Any designers in Berlin here that wants to grab a coffee?
- suttree 13y agoWelcome! Stop by betahaus anytime and you'll meet everyone you need. But don't forget about us at Somewhere too - email me and let's meet up (duncan /at/ somewhere /dot/ com etc...)
- triplesec 13y agoI'm tempted to up sticks from London and see if there re any interesting startups to join there.
- thepartisan 13y agoThe startup/tech "scene" in Berlin seems a bit immature compared to London. There seem to be a few companies doing interesting things, however the scale doesn't seem to be anywhere near London at the moment, which has a good mix of startups and established companies and massive amounts of capital flowing through the city. Berlin is great city though, and looks like things might take off in a few years!
- triplesec 13y agoit sounds like an interesting space apart from the tech. the artistic city and culture has a lot of buzz, but I've only heard this second hand because I've never visited.
- peterjmag 13y agoWelcome, and congrats on the new gig! I actually spoke a bit with EyeQuant before I moved here—cool product, and seems like a great team too. I'm a designer at ResearchGate now, and I'd love to meet up at some point. Get in touch! (Email's in my profile.)
- peter12355 13y agoI always had the feeling that 9 out of 10 startups in Berlin are founded by business students from private universities like WHU. Is this a misperception or is the hacker-businesspeople-ratio really better elsewhere?
- DanielleMolloy 13y agoI can not answer your question, but I want to add that Berlin might be the city with the highest hackerspace density: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Berlin http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Berlin The whole Bay Area has.. not that many (well, they have one biohackerspace).
- axx 13y agoI'm not from berlin, but my perception is the same. There are a lot of smart hackers in germany in general, but many of those do software for fun or idealism. Because there are not many VCs in germany, those VCs (i guess) don't trust tech people as much as business people. There are a lot of successful ecommerce companies in germany, a little number of tech based (wunderlist/soundcloud) and a lot of stupid social networking companies that make no money at all. I could be totally wrong, but that's my perception.
- njr123 13y agoThis was strongly my impression as well. A bunch of business guys who have seen The Social Network a few too many times chasing the worst ideas imaginable.
- smandou 13y agoThis was done in Paris 1 or 2 years ago. Some folks found the map and broke in those places to steal computers and stuffs.
- benjlang 13y agoIsrael: http://mappedinisrael.com/ http://mappedinisrael.com/
- nerfhammer 13y agoVisas for Canadians, Americans?
- shrikant 13y agohttp://www.bluecard-eu.de/eu-blue-card-germany/ http://www.bluecard-eu.de/eu-blue-card-germany/
- guard-of-terra 13y agoWhy not use OSM as the mapping layer? It's good enough already to avoid depending on Google.
- bachback 13y agoI was in Berlin. What I've found is that the most famous startup in Berlin is a todo-list. Jawohl! Make sure to visit the c-base if you're there.
- gu 13y agoSoundcloud is probably known to more people than Wunderlist.
- wellboy 13y agoYeah the only innovative ones are Soundcloud and Gidsy. Then there is www.workhub.com, they are awesome and awesome founder, but they are still in beta. ResearchGate is also big, but they are more a data startup. Wooga and Hitfox are the other two big ones, but they are game development companies, not a "real" startup.
- jeremydavid 13y agoDoes anyone know a good immigration consultant in Berlin? I've been planning to move my side projects (now full-time projects) there for a few years... and they are now big enough to sustain me. Cheers, [email in profile]
- gu 13y agoThe person creating that list was a bit too "greedy". I certainly wouldn't have added a well-established café like St. Oberholz to that list.
- marijn 13y agoIt's listed as a coworking space (there is one above the café), not a startup.
- gu 13y agoThat place is a café, and a fairly noisy one at that. Calling it a co-working space is quite a stretch. It's just that a lot of people with Apple laptops frequent it. I don't think anybody gets serious work done there, by a definition of "serious work" that does not include Facebook and Twitter.
- peterjmag 13y agoThere's a coworking space above the café: http://www.sanktoberholz.de/?page_id=1514&lang=en http://www.sanktoberholz.de/?page_id=1514&lang=en
- zerr 13y agoWhat are salary ranges for experienced engineers in Berlin and in Germany in general? Startup vs stable company is also interesting in this aspect. Maybe someone with enough karma could create a poll...
- crucialfelix 13y agoits very low. €30k is average according to glassdoor. its better to hire here then be hired
- sashthebash 13y agoFor experienced engineers it would be around 40-70k Euro. Depending how experienced you really are, how the demand for the language is (e.g. higher for iOS), on the stage of the company and how much equity you get. You need to factor in the cost of living when comparing this to US or UK salaries. For 600 Euro/month you will get a nice multi-room apartment in a central area without sharing it with anybody else. Lunch in a restaurant is about 5 Euro and food in supermarkets probably the highest quality for the cheapest price anywhere.
- rmoriz 13y agoIf you do it for the money, ignore German startups. The chance for an exit is 1% and usually employees don't get equity. The pay is low and you're forced to burn out. You will not work for the next Facebook, Twitter etc. Instead join Siemens, Allianz or other blue chip companies to easily earn 60-90k with all benefits you can imagine. Berlin is even more desperate as most of the German "tech" scene is. No money, no users, bad execution except the successful copycat-business of the Samwer brothers.
- zerr 13y agoInteresting. Regarding burning out - I thought the overtime work was banned in Germany, no? (Quite recently actually, if I remember correctly). Yes, I'm aware about non-existent exits, but I was hoping for more like a revenue sharing or similar agreement. For a C++/systems/desktop engineer (no web), do you think other cities in Germany would be more suitable than Berlin?
- maxgaudin 13y agoHere's the source from a similar project to make your own map https://github.com/abenzer/represent-map https://github.com/abenzer/represent-map
- kirk21 13y agoMoving out next week to work on a tool for academics. Anyone up for coffee? Mail awesome[at]bohrresearch.com Link: beta.bohrresearch.com
- Monisation 13y agoMaybe you must look outside of Berlin to look for investors but the "Taking over the world" mentality is definitely (t)here. At least that's how we at Somewhere think.