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Comment · 10 years ago
adding to the previous commenters: https://www.google.de/search?q=startup+jobs+munich
Comment · 11 years ago
That's true.
Comment · 11 years ago
I agree but only due to my lack of knowledge in both areas -- and I only have second knowledge by attending a talk of a former D-Wave user and "programmer". That is, and contrasting Mill Computing, D-Wave has implementations in the field.
Comment · 11 years ago
In Berlin, there is the 'Social Impact Hub'
of which I am not affiliated with nor won't endorse here in any way. Sadly, in Germany at least, startups that aim for maximum positive impact and less so profit, are called 'social startups' which outside of Germany probably has a completely different connotation.
The news websites I usually frequent, are not very full of news; they are rather SV & VC company theory megaphones. Avoiding those websites sometimes leads one to people with a bit different entrepreneurial mindset.
This having said, would you work for such a company? And which compromises would you accept (on the ethics-, but also wage-scale)?
Comment · 11 years ago
A super incomplete list:
Databases:
- PipelineDB
- Snowflake (Computing)
Internet of Things / Communications:
- Helium
Robotics:
- Pneubotics
- Kuka, namely the research department
Autonomous Systems / "Self Driving Car" et al.:
- Kiva
- Anki
Computer-Vision / VR based:
- Jaunt
- Oculus VR (especially the 'research' department)
Agriculture:
- Blueriver http://www.bluerivert.com
(there are many more super-interesting companies in this area!)
Computing:
- Mill Computing; though quite dubious
- D-Wave
and than there is Microsoft Research working on super interesting stuff in programming languages, computer architecture (FPGAs).
Additionally, I believe really challenging problems will alwyas be coming from creative people, companies in that area; such as Pixar, architecture, and design (keywords, just to give a start: generative {design, art, ...}).
Hope this helps!
Comment · 13 years ago
> Germany, despite being technologically strong, is not very inovative. At least not in the sense of new, scaling products.
That's the result of a tech-centric worldview (read startups, sw). Quite the opposite is true, for instance in the area of 'Green Tech'.
> While that indeed is one of the cornerstones of the german economy, these companies are most of the time too small for an interessting tech IPO.
I don't your argument here. You mean success == IPO here? There are plenty of highly profitable Mittelstand companies with a profit and revenue much higher than e.g. LinkedIn. What does that mean here, that LinkedIn is unsuccessful or that the other Mittelstand'ish company is? IPO is not a value of its own as some reports might indicate. Looking at Mittelstand, as the author wants us to, is about the values surrounding a company, for instance to re-invest money in a sustainable way, that it is not about growth for growth's sake (which seems to be an inevitable by-product of going public!) but making better products.
> Finally, what in my opinion makes it very unlikely that a company has a sucessfull tech IPO in germany anytime soon is people. There's education, focusing on producing people for the existing technologies and, even worse, companies.
For University-level education, this definitely and absolutely does not apply.