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24 Hour Business Camp: Do you rather listen to blogs or Veronica Maggio?

By Ernst-Jan Pfauth
January 26, 2009
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I’ve warned you two weeks ago. An avalanche of new Swedish start-ups made it to the web. Last weekend, 90 Swedish Internet entrepreneurs combined forces for 24 hours to produce 52 new web services during the 24 Hour Business Camp. Well, they succeeded. And now it’s up to us to choose a winner.

The choice is very diverse. You can vote for an interactive website where you can share your best children quotes and turn them into books, t-shirts and gifts. Or do you prefer a crowdsourced t-shirt shop that only delivers limited edition collections? If you’re looking for a job close to home, then head to Jobbkartan.se (”the job map”). It’s a search engine that lets you search for jobs based on their geographical location.

Listentoblogs.com

I’m still in doubt which brand-new start-up will get my votes. There’s Listentoblogs.com, a service build by the guys behind SoundCloud. On this well-designed site, you can listen to your favorite blogs, or turn any blog into a podcast using your own voice. Listentoblogs.com is well-designed and based on open standards like AppEngine, SoundCloud, and Twingly.

YouTV.se - TV 2.0

Veronica Maggio

On the other hand, YouTV.se introduced me to Veronica Maggio – a drop dead gorgeous Swedish pop star. Her video is featured in The Forfest Channel. Me discovering her is exactly what the founders wanted, as they want to bring back the laid back and random way of watching television. But then on the interwebs. Also pretty cool.

Check the other nominees here and cast your five votes.

KillerStartUps.com, are you paying attention? You’ve got a lot of reviewing to do.


  • new Swedish start-up YouTV.se just made me fall in love with Veronica Maggio, a Swedish popstar ;) http://bit.ly/A8Z3
  • Veronica Maggio is one of my favorite artists, for sure! Another Swedish artist in another niche is Hoffmaestro, who I think deserves a lot more attention than they get! http://open.spotify.com/album/3kG203MbpftpTNKPP...

    24 hour business camp was incredible fun and to use only one word - amazing. I wasn't there for Twingly, I launched Ticketz.se instead (search for concert tickets etc, both new ones and from the second market). Personally I like Listentoblogs.com and Voicly.com (microblogging by voice instead of text).
  • RT @dutchproblogger new Swedish start-up YouTV.se just made me fall in love with Veronica Maggio, a Swedish popstar ;) http://bit.ly/A8Z3
  • Yes, you're right. Veronica is smoking hot :)...

    As regarding to be reviewed by Killerstartups I could re-write an old article of mine about getting reviewed by Killerstartups and post it here.
  • drivingsouth
    without reading your post, i'll rather listen to veronica :)

    I wonder what's the difference between Sweden and Denmark... It seems that Denmark is boring when i listen to news about Sweden/Finland...
  • I guess Wikipedia can respond to your question faster, now that Ernst is busy moving on to his new job:
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark

    Of course, readers from those two countries can tell the differences as well.
  • Here you go: http://thenextweb.com/2009/01/27/startup-compan... (how to get listed fast on KillerStartups.com).

    Hope it helps not only Swedish startup companies but all startups!
  • RaiulBaztepo
    Hello!
    Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
    PS: Sorry for my bad english, I'v just started to learn this language ;)
    See you!
    Your, Raiul Baztepo
  • Hello ! ^_^
    I am Piter Kokoniz. Just want to tell, that I'v found your blog very interesting
    And want to ask you: will you continue to post in this blog in future?
    Sorry for my bad english:)
    Thank you!
    Piter Kokoniz, from Latvia
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