For the past few months every Thursday morning we've been going along to BetaBreakfast.

Betabreakfast is hosted by Betahaus a 2,000 sqm workspace in Kreuzberg Berlin. Betahaus describes itself as 'a co-working space for creatives'. It is set up to serve a way of working where teams come together and disband according to the project at hand and workspace terms are affordable and flexible. Betahaus has all of the usual facilities required to run a small business including the cafe where we meet for breakfast. The fluid nature of the space means that it is brimming with startup ventures and every thursday morning people meet over breakfast to take turn introducing themselves and their projects.

Betabreakfast is an informal opportunity to first show projects to a group of like minded entrepreneurs. Projects are usually self initiated so these are first steps in a feedback loop with Betabreakfast as a kind of startup school. Discussion is generally relevant to most present if not there is always the fall back of a good german breakfast. Sitting in on breakfast you often find observers from Brussels (EU) here purely out of interest of the startup culture in action.

Betahaus is not without a position feedback tends towards a non elitist social good with OpenSource and OpenData at it's heart and away from an overtly commercial Walled (Garden) approach. Although this position could equally be attributed to the whole of Berlin.

Betabreakfast is part of a wider trend in Berlin that is seriously competing to be the startup capital of Europe. In the field of online audio we find ourselves in impressive company in Berlin SoundCloud HQ is nearby in Mitte and Sourcefabric Airtime literally next door.

Avco is based in Betahaus, Berlin for summer 2011 with our startup project ShoutOut.fm