Antonio Thonis

The Amsterdam Antwerp Challenge is a local business plan competition which’s main goal is to stimulate innovation and international entrepreneurship in this region. By submitting a 100 word startup idea you can win some of the price money or even the possibility to pitch at the finals.  I’ve used this opportunity to put one of the news service concepts I’ve been thinking about on paper:

Currently newspapers struggle with innovation, many seems only to focus on digitalizing their news product while not offering real new value to the readers.
I believe newspaper should add services to their product instead of just digitalizing their product. Internet and mobile technologies offer many opportunities for delivering information products, but also to economically customize products and delivery.
One of the biggest problems of the current web is information overload. My concept solves this problem and allows subscribers to receive customized news based on interests and the time factor they want to spend on consuming news.

If I pass the first rounds I’ll have more words to explain the concept, now it is more of an indication of the problem.

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