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Boomtown Berlin - Hotspot for Start-ups

VideoassistentenFebruary 7, 2012

Creative talents, a relatively low cost of living and open-minded financial sponsors—there are plenty of reasons why Internet start-ups are all the rage in Berlin. Edial and Floris Dekker moved to the German capital from Amsterdam to set up a city-guide website called Gidsy. They say only Berlin has the ideal infrastructure for start-ups.

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Berlin is becoming a European hub of Internet start-ups. The German capital has a pioneering spirit unlike anywhere else in Europe, with young entrepreneurs flocking here to make commercial dreams a reality that would be impossible elsewhere.

Report by Danijel Visevic.