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As Amen cofounder leaves, how is the much-hyped Berlin startup really doing?
It’s rarely a good sign when a founder unexpectedly leaves their business – and that’s what seems to have happened at much-hyped Berlin startup Amen, which counts actor Ashton Kutcher among investors. Amen cofounder Caitlin Winner
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Amen’s new social recommendations app Thanks launches in iTunes
Berlin startup Amen’s latest app Thanks, which pools social recommendations and provides a search engine for users, has launched in the app store. The app gathers data that is already collaborated on Amen in
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You’re welcome. The details of Amen’s follow-up app, named Thanks
Berlin startup Amen is cooking up a second mobile app – a new peer-powered recommendation engine called Thanks. The new app takes the data already on Amen and turns it into a product geared
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Investor spotlight: Partech’s Gabriel Matuschka – “The VC model has to be improved”
Gabriel Matuschka is Partech International’s new senior associate in Berlin. Before that, he did the pitch rounds with a fair number of Europe’s VCs as the founder of TripHunter, followed by stints at solar power
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This changes everything. “The world’s coolest GIF animator” now rocks SoundCloud tracks
Loopcam raises the LOL levels by announcing partnership with new mashup editor Weavly The problem with GIFs is that they’re eerily quiet. It’s like peering in at a party from outside the double-glazing, shivering in
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Founder spotlight: Amen’s Felix Petersen on why he wants to leave “a dent in the universe”
The “Chief Executive Amen-er” of one of Berlin’s best-known startups talks hype, haters and why entreprenuers should be ambitious enough to leave a mark. “We’re still very young,” Amen co-founder Felix Petersen says, sitting
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“Hamburg is half the size but doubly as productive as Berlin” – IFA Next Big Thing panel featuring Amen, Tape.tv, Earlybird, Dov Moran
Germany meets Israel was the theme for the IFA Next Big Thing discussion, showcasing the pros and cons of two of the most hyped startup cities in the world. The topics of the day
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The Top 10 tech events in Berlin this week
Want to skip straight to the best bits of Campus Party and TOA? We trawled through the websites to pick out the top 10 events we’re looking forward to at both of the goliath
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Amen’s Caitlin Winner – 5 things I’ve learned
Caitlin Winner (right) is co-founder and CPO at Amen, international hotspot for sharing opinions (also known for inspiring guerilla marketing campaigns and attracting Ashton Kutcher as an investor). Amen started up in Berlin in September last
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Amen 1.5 goes multimedia and secures $1m investment boost – the most welcome update ever?
Amen is about to get a suite of game-changing new updates to launch it beyond the hipsterverse and into the public consciousness, as well as a fresh injection of cash to help it along
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