Here is a smart way to spend the upcoming thursday. Open Coffee club is an informal gathering of entrepreneurs and VCs from 10am to 12am. It’s right down town in Paris : restaurant Urbi et Orbi, register below or drop by. It’s likely to be a small group of active people since May 17th is […]
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet the co-founder and CEO of Priceminister. com has a lot of celebrate. He just turned 30, completed his second acquisition last week and already has a success story behind him. Price Minister has 52 million products on line which makes it the largest marketplace in Europe in terms of products available, 10 times […]
Can France, or any country in the world, build a Google like success? Systaime says Yes. Here is a machinima (in french) he recently posted on Eyeka about the opportunities in France and the tech environment. If the web is wordwide and yet managed centrally, if financial ressources are available, since talent is everywhere, in […]
I like this song “La relance” (The economic recovery) by Tété. The timing is right! My friend Marc Antoine will appreciate. Beautiful text, real sense of humour, nice melody, great voice and a beautiful realization by videasts Pierre Nouvel with Valère Terrier, both from Factoid. Watch the making-of.
If you are in Paris on Thursday may 24th, if you love Egypt, are sensible to new media and techologies, to innovative theories, run to attend this show at La Geode at 8pm.. It’s one time only; it’s a 3D computer demo on their gigantic screen; it’s live presented by Jean-Pierre Houdin, who spent the […]
Here is a little info from “Informa Telecoms & Media 2007” which explains the repeated financial investments of venture capitalists in companies which target the entertainment services on mobile. The market for content and services on cell phones is expected to grow to $150 bln by 2011. SMS, multimedia messaging and instant messaging on cell […]
Joost , the internet broadcast quality television platform, annouced on May 10th that they raised $45 million from 5 leading firms : Sequoia, Index, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS and Viacom I think that the founders’ choice of firms is very smart. Combining leading venture firms in the US and in Asia gives Joost windows […]
Jean Michel Maurer is an e-business and marketing consultant who interviews entrepreneurs and members of the e-community in France. He’s done it with me, but also with : – my former future partner, founder of V-POD Rodrigo Sepulveda Shulz and his second self – Philippe Rodriguez, founder of Wantuno, his blog – Jean-Yves Quentel, founder […]
Barcamp is a good way to get an overview of the start-ups. In Paris, the ones i’ve covered in earlier posts are The Tokeda Project and Moovement. The full list is here. Richard tells us more about some of the players here. Logistics : Meet at Yahoo! 17 rue Guillaume Tell 75017 Paris. On May […]