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Mid of Chocri employee Katharina Raatz making individual chocolate bars  2. Close up of toppings being put on chocolate bar  3. Mid of liquid chocolate pouring out of machine into chocolate mould4. Close up of hand putting strawberry...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Mid of Chocri employee Katharina Raatz making individual chocolate bars  \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of toppings being put on chocolate bar  \u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of liquid chocolate pouring out of machine into chocolate mould\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of hand putting strawberry topping on chocolate  \u003cbr/\u003e5. Chocri's co-founder Franz Duge at production showing popular toppings, zoom in to nut toppings, UPSOUND Franz Duge, co-founder of Chocolate Bar Company 'chocri.de': \u003cbr/\u003e\"Here we have our 'heart smileys' which are a preferred topping, we also have nuts like pistachio, hazelnut brittle or classic hazelnut.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of chocolate bar with colourful topping and inscription (German) 'I Love you'  \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (German) Franz Duge, 25, co-founder of Customised Chocolate Bar Company Chocri.de:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The idea for Chocri started about three years ago when I was looking for a birthday present for my girlfriend and created a bar of chocolate for her with her favourite ingredients, and that was such a success that my colleague and I decided to set up the company.\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of packaged chocolate bars being sorted on belt  \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (German) Franz Duge, 25, co-founder of Customised Chocolate Bar Company Chocri.de:\u003cbr/\u003e\"By doing it virtually, we have the advantage of being able to build up a relatively large production in the background and we can centralise orders to speed up production. If we had a store in a nice location, like Berlin's KuDamm, it would be difficult to do that.\" \u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of packaged chocolate bars being wrapped in cardboard for shipment   \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Professor Knut Blind leaving building  \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (German) Knut Blind, professor at Technical University of Berlin, Chair for Innovation Economics: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Because Berlin is an attractive city for research that attracts many young, creative, smart people who give the impulse for high-tech start-ups, I would say that compared to other cities in Germany, and in Europe, Berlin is becoming more attractive.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of placard of 'Wunderkinder' (German for 'prodigy') start-up company lying in shelf, tilt up to employees working behind shelf  \u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of '6Wunderkinder' programmer working on computer  \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up of programme being worked on on computer screen  \u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of two programmers sitting in front of computer screens  \u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up of hands of '6Wunderkinder' software developer Matthew Bostock typing  \u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Bostock, software expert for '6Wunderkinder': \u003cbr/\u003e\"Upon looking, I really became aware that Berlin was sort of a hub for creative and artistic opportunity and I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to come work here at 6Wunderkinder, and it was really the perfect marriage of being a very creative role and also a life experience in a sense that I could move away from home.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid of programmers sitting on sofa, making notes  \u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of '6Wunderkinder' office, with chief executive Christian Reber talking with programmers  \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Reber, chief executive of '6Wunderkinder': \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the long term people will work on one platform on the Internet. They will connect on that platform and work together, students, private people, end consumers and business people. We try to make one platform for all these people.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Pan of programmers working\u003cbr/\u003eThe same edgy spirit that made Berlin's reputation as Europe's top spot for pulsing nightlife and hip galleries is now attracting a different set of innovator, young high-tech entrepreneurs.\u003cbr/\u003eMany entrepreneurs say Berlin, which has some of the cheapest rents and lowest employment costs in Europe, offers ideal conditions for starting up a company. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Berlin city officials, 60 start-ups sprang up in the capital last year, and a quarter of the Swiss-based European Tech Tour's top 25 tech start-ups from German-speaking countries are based in Berlin.\u003cbr/\u003eFor Franz Duge, 25, a native Berliner who founded chocolate maker Chocri in 2008, no other locations were ever considered for his company, which offers customers a chance to concoct their own chocolates from 80 different ingredients.\u003cbr/\u003eAs a shop on the city's posh shopping streets was never an option, one of Berlin's many empty lofts on the outskirts provided the perfect location for the online store.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"By doing it virtually, we have the advantage of being able to build up a relatively large production in the background and we can centralide orders to speed up production,\" Duge said.\u003cbr/\u003eDuge has seen production at his company double in just more than two years to 4,000 chocolate bars per day, expanding their shipping from Germany and neighbouring countries to the United States and Canada.\u003cbr/\u003eLike Duge, an abundance of other computer-savvy grads from the four major universities in and around Berlin, and the presence of industry leaders including Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc., are making Berlin fertile ground for high-tech start-ups.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Berlin is an attractive city for research that attracts many young, creative, smart people who give the impulse for high-tech startups,\" said Knut Blind, chair of Innovation Economics at Berlin's Technical University.\u003cbr/\u003eMatthew Bostock, 22, from Coventry, England is one of the players in Berlin's boom. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen he graduated from a British university in late 2010 with a degree in music production and engineering, he realised he had few prospects in his home country.\u003cbr/\u003eHe now works for 6Wunderkinder, a cloud-based productivity software company.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I really became aware that Berlin was sort of a hub for creative and artistic opportunity and I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to come work here at 6Wunderkinder,\" said Bostock, who moved to Berlin two months ago to join the company.\u003cbr/\u003eWhether lounging on a sofa with a laptop balanced on their knees, or busy behind the keyboards of desktops scattered throughout the loft-like top floor of a refurbished brick warehouse in Berlin's central district, the young programmers of '6Wunderkinder ' are busy trying to help the next generation manage the onslaught of information that floods in every day from the Internet.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the long term people will work on one platform on the Internet,\" said Christian Reber, founder of 6Wunderkinder. \u003cbr/\u003e\"They will connect on that platform and work together, students, private people, end consumers and business people,\" Reber added.\u003cbr/\u003eThe company received support from a start-up fund, known as the HTG, that is supported by the German government and leading industries. \u003cbr/\u003eSet up in 2005, the fund has paid out 305 million (m) euros (445.5 million (m) US dollars) to help entrepreneurs in Germany get off the ground.\u003cbr/\u003eSome of the biggest names, including audio platform SoundCloud that moved from Sweden to Berlin in 2007 and now has 3.5 million (m) users, or ResearchGate, a Berlin-based networking site for academics that just saw its users pass the 1 million (m) mark, are helping to attract attention.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the long term, city officials hope that such success 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