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Stanford Venture Capital Holdings Invests in Mountain Partners Group ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Swiss investment company, Mountain Super Angel AG (Open Market Frankfurt, ISIN: CH0033050961, www.super-angel.ch) and her parent company, Mountain Partners AG, have announced that Stanford Venture Capital Holdings has committed to invest in the Swiss company and its funds. Stanford will also nominate one member to each of the Boards of Directors for both Mountain Partners AG and Mountain Super Angel AG. Stanford Venture Capital Holdings is a member of Stanford Financial Group, a global network of financial services companies. Dr.

The App town. A journey among Berlin start-ups – Part 1 Today Daniele Montemale, long-time Berlin resident, tells us about what’s going on with the tech start up scene, and why the city’s becoming the California of Europe. There are many Berlins. The Berlin with the wall, the one after the wall, the one with 19 underground lines. The city where 1/5 of the residents weren’t born in Germany, and where you can live and work without speaking German. The capital of underground art, the capital of techno music.

Why Berlin is home to a new generation of beautiful apps When I visited the German capital city of Berlin this week, I took the opportunity to meet as many tech startup entrepreneurs as I possibly could. As they showed me the apps they’d developed, one theme ran through all of them – they were all good-looking, and many of them were world-class gorgeous. Sure, designers from across Europe create very attractive apps, but in many cases they lack that extra sheen and attention to detail that helps make apps from Silicon Valley look that little bit ‘better’, even if functionally there may not be much difference, regardless of where the app was made. Many apps from Berlin seem to have that extra something, and even though you may not have heard of many of the latest generation of startups based in the city yet, if you try their products, you’ll see a flair for design shine through.

10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail Macala Wright is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the leading fashion and retail industry business websites. She is a retail consultant and business strategist who specializes in marketing consulting for fashion, luxury and lifestyle brands. You can follower her on Twitter at @InsideFMM or @Macala. Berlin StartupBootcamp and Campus Party Registration Open If you’re in the business of tech startups and entrepreneurial spirit in Berlin, there’s a lot coming up that you might want to try. Today, Telefonica and O2 have opened up their European Campus Party and Startupbootcamp has announced that it will be hosting its Mentor Kick Off Event. Campus Party started in 1997 as a way to bring together bright technical minds in Latin America and Europe. This year’s event in Berlin runs from August 21-26 and promises to be a week-long 24 hour tech fest for ‘Campuseros’. In the past 16 years, the people who attended the first Campus Party have grown into a global community of over 180,000 with annual events taking place in Sao Paulo – Brazil, Bogotá – Colombia, Quito – Ecuador and Mexico City – Mexico. The Berlin event this summer will take place at the historic former airport of Tempelhof.

A Groupon For Sports? Crowd Seats Brings The Daily Deal Model To Sports Tickets Daily deal sites, by and large, seem like they’re here to stay, much to Rocky Agrawal’s chagrin, surely. Whether or not you agree with Rocky’s flurry of posts last month about Groupon and its claque of clones, the daily deals model is not perfect, and it’s certainly a worthy endeavor to make sure that small businesses and merchants are not coerced into structuring one-sided relationships with daily deals sites. Justin Cener, the Founder and CEO of Crowd Seats, agrees that the daily deal model is not ideal for every industry and merchants shouldn’t force the model just because daily deals are all the rage these days. That being said, Cener thinks he’s found a niche that is suited well to the daily deal and group buying model: Sports tickets. What’s more, businesses that make money on complementary goods and can create purchases that make up for the money lost in the discount stand to do more than just break even on these kind of deals. As to how it works?

The Customer-Value Canvas v.0.8 I've been thinking about "plug-ins" that complement the Business Model Canvas for a while. One concept that I've been looking at more closely over the last few weeks is the invaluable "jobs-to-be-done" approach. I tried to turn it into a visual approach like the Business Model Canvas (BMC). The result is a prototype conceptual tool, the Customer Value Canvas Map v.0.8. now called Value Proposition Canvas. Update: the final outcome of the Value Proposition Canvas can be found in this post.

6 Startups to Watch in 2012 An Olympic games, a U.S. presidential election and the end of the world are already planned for 2012, but we're more excited about the startups. Here are six of them (in no particular order) that we expect to help define the coming year. We chose companies based on the momentum they gained in 2011, promising new takes on old problems and, in one case, the possibility of an IPO.

Verint Advances Voice of the Customer Analytics Portfolio Verint® Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) today announced a series of enhancements to its market-leading Voice of the Customer Analytics™ portfolio. Among the advancements to its Vovici™ Enterprise Feedback Management™ (EFM) software is the all-new “Insights” module. Its capabilities introduce embedded text analytics and interactive dashboards to the company’s award-winning EFM solution, supporting Verint’s strategy of enabling organizations to drive operational excellence and optimize the performance of their enterprises via the multichannel voice of their customers. “World-class companies deliver memorable customer experiences by providing continuous intelligence to employees who can make a difference,” says Greg Stock, senior vice president, enterprise feedback management, Verint. “In order to create more effective strategies, we believe companies need to leverage the voice of the customer to drive excellence across their operations and directly into their customer experiences.”

PeerIndex Takes The Honours As The Europas Awards Drifts Eastwards The Europas, the annual European Tech Startup Awards, ended last night with a triumphant win by PeerIndex the social ranking service, which clinched the Grand Prix award. The result was based on both public online voting and expert judges, recognising the startup’s significant market traction against a much larger competitor, with less resources and a clear path towards both a big consumer and business market. VC DFJ Esprit offered a £50,000 convertible loan note to the Grand Prix winner on the night. After 22 expert judges picked their favourites from 400 entries, and those results where combined with approximately 40,000 public votes from the tech startup industry, clear trends started to emerge from those marked out as Winners and those Highly Commended in the awards.