No More Woof in Sweden:<p><a href="http://www.nomorewoof.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nomorewoof.com/</a><p><a href="http://oresundstartups.com/no-more-woof-aims-read-dogs-minds-surpassed-crowdfunding-goal-already/" rel="nofollow">http://oresundstartups.com/no-more-woof-aims-read-dogs-minds...</a><p><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-more-woof" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-more-woof</a><p>TLDR: they sell brain-scanning equipment that translates your dog's thoughts into human language.
RapidMiner is hardly a startup. They've been around since roughly 2007.<p>Moreover, though their headquarters are in Boston nowadays they're essentially a German company (most of the research that went into their product was done at the TU Dortmund).<p>This might be seen as nitpicking but as today German startups are mostly considered copycats those which are not should at least be noted.
I'm not seeing anything worth watching in this list. There's not much unique or different about any of these companies.<p>I'm sure some of them will do well, but personally I'm interested in companies at the least tackling the "frighteningly ambitious" ideas pg has written about, even if those alone seem far to insular.<p>Home automation, robotics, Medicine, 3D printing, renewable energy, etc, etc. That's what I want to "watch". I couldn't care less about the next t-shirt maker.
What's the line between "Getting a lot of buzz" and "I've never heard of them". I think for everything except teespring and ughworthy on this list for me is the latter.<p>Also I don't know about you but "Spring.me proves that we’re not through with new social networks" depressed me.
The most interesting thing I saw about this list when I wrote it was how many content and/or content marketing companies are getting big buzz. I'm wondering if we'll be so sick of content marketing by June.
We just a had huge survey on the most interesting startups from Estonia to watch in 2014 and the results are here: <a href="http://kaljundi.com/2013/12/28/top-10-estonianmafia-startups-to-watch-in-2014/" rel="nofollow">http://kaljundi.com/2013/12/28/top-10-estonianmafia-startups...</a>
I think Written seems pretty cool. At least for what I do.. There's some other products out there that help brands and bloggers with syndication too like PublishThis. Would be interested to see how they differentiate?