This Months in German Startups - November 2019

12/04/19 • 22 min

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If you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.

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Housekeeping - Time to brag We set up sub-podcast for special interest and our Fintech Germany made it up to No 72 in the iTunes Business Charts of Qatar. Thank you!

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QualiFiction helps more SciFi authors to get published

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In this interview, Joe talks to Gesa of this year’s winner of the CONTENTshift (https://www.contentshift.de/en/) accelerator QualiFiction. Learn more here: https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-qualifiction/.

Publishers receive more than 4 million book proposals for SciFi novels each year, in the German-speaking area alone. Now QualiFiction wants to help here so more texts can be evaluated by the publishers. The startup has an AI, which can – within 60 seconds – evaluate a SciFi text. So, they avoid publishers sending back unread proposals to the aspiring authors, due to a lack of readers for evaluation. They also generate the metadata (e.g. genre) for the text.

QualiFiction is also looking for publishers who give them masses of texts in different languages so they can extend their offering to other languages, besides German.

_ Scifi Books Joe likes (AL) Peter F Hamilton: The Armageddon Series https://amzn.to/2rolpu9

Craig Alanson: Expeditionary Force Series: https://amzn.to/2QTNm7H

Arthur C. Clarke – Collected Stories: https://amzn.to/2Oo5HrT _

This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/en/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. We will bring you this year’s winner of CONTENTshift at Thanksgiving (Nov 28th).

History

Every year the Frankfurt book fair is also the place where Startuprad.io interviews the finalists and eventual winners of the program. We did this already in the past. Have a look at our interviews from 2018 on our playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUbiCAQc22WsdxEzE7iASbXD4_rAAVQbx _ Affiliate Links Want to get better? Try our recommendations

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions (Wiley Finance Editions) https://amzn.to/2WwKy1g

Venture Capital For Dummies (For Dummies Series) - Nicole Gravagna, Peter K. Adams https://amzn.to/2oxRDC4

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist https://amzn.to/2WtuQ72

You can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription (first month for free – AL) https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21 _

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Stasher, helps you to stash your luggage away during travels

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Sorry to everyone who expected a publication yesterday. We are still experimenting with the publication times and weekdays.

InterviewIn this interview, Joe talks to Jacob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-wedderburn-day-499258111/, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jacob-wedderburn-day), the CEO, and co-founder of the London-based startup stasher (https://stasher.com/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/citystasher). Stasher is similar to an Airbnb for luggage, where you can store your luggage on the day of departure at certain tourist hotspots and still do some sightseeing.

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JacobDuring the interview, Jacob tells the story, how he came from studying economics to “real” business and how Airbnb paved part of the way for their startup idea. As usual for Joe, the interview goes sometimes off on some tangents. You will find the links below and if you watch the video interview, you also get to see the strange phone booth in all its abstract glory ... Tune in to learn more

Alternatively, we wanted to call the Interview: “Stasher your reason to visit a dog café in Canada“

Further ReadingDuring the interview both are talking about:

Economic downturn 1907 https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/panic_of_1907Economic downturn 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308“Flying Saucers from Men in Black I” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_PavilionEuston Station London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_railway_stationKings Cross Station London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_King%27s_Cross_railway_stationStasher at Time Square in New York City https://stasher.com/luggage-storage/new-york/times-square

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