Sclipo, a social Skills-Network based upon user-generated videos, has won the Startup 2.0 contest, whose final was hold yesterday at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. The second place was for a very similar project coming from Israel, 5min, while the third prize will go for Properazzi, crawler-based web 2.0 property search engine for all of Europe.

Startup 2.0

Startup 2.0 was opened to all webs 2.0 from Europe. A total of 260 projects coming from the main European countries took part in it. The 5 finalists presented their projects yesterday in Bilbao before an audience of 300 people. The jury interrogated each one of them for 15 minutes.

Sclipo is a platform for any kind of skills, such as cooking, well-being, technology or sports. All content is 100% user-generated and evaluated. It stands for: Skills + CLIP + yO (=I). It is based in Barcelona and has an international team managed by Gregor Gimmy. Its business model is based on contextual advertising, market research and premium user services.

25/05/2007 | Permalink

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1. Comment from: Georgy

Guys, you made a fool out of yourself. Two identical ideas, while the 5min.com is executed much (but I mean much) better, not to mention they had the best presentation there (by far).
Now everybody are talking about “how the competition was sold to a Spanish company by Spanish juries”, and that’s too bad…

25 de Mayo de 2007 a las 12:54

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2. Comment from: Thomas

It seems like this contest was sold. I beleive that all the people who were there including the participants knows that. very unproffesional. Sclipo presentation paled in respect of 5min and its CEO answers to the judges questions were lame.

25 de Mayo de 2007 a las 13:10

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3. Comment from: Charles

Georgy,

what is stupid is to compare 5min to sclipo.com. What has to do a educational 2.0 platform with a video repository?

And the sclipo team is located in Barcelona but they are from US, Germany, Poland and Spain.

Thomas,

if you have any inside information, it would be better to show it and not work with assumptions, otherwise the only unprofessional comment is yours.

25 de Mayo de 2007 a las 20:29

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4. Comment from: Tom

smells like corruption!
5min.com is much better than sc… I can’t even pronounce their name.
You should be ashamed!@#
It made me disconnect your feeder from my netvibes!
Shame on you.

28 de Mayo de 2007 a las 14:17

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5. Comment from: Jaime

I also think 5min was better, but the judges did not think so.

28 de Mayo de 2007 a las 14:48

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6. Comment from: Eleder

I saw 5 min and it was surprisingly good. The other one, I don´t know even wether I saw it. Maybe not.

It seems that many people who have been able to compare both, are convinced that it smells like corruption. I´m from Bilbao, and it´s sad to say, but I wouldn´t be surprised (even without all the data) by one more case of corruption here.

Any other voices?

Could we organize kind of a popular votation, and redirect our voices to the people of “5 min”? Could something be done to “repair the damage” (if judged this way by so a great majority)?

29 de Mayo de 2007 a las 18:39

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7. Comment from: Jose del moral

There were 7 judges voting (4 from home and 3 in Bilbao, which were supported by 5 other people from the technical committee. Of course 12 people can make a mistake. In any case, Sclipo and 5min were so tied up that I heard it was very hard for them to decide. No decision is ever the best. It was just a decision. And just a contest. Nothing else.

29 de Mayo de 2007 a las 22:42


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