Evan Nisselson, founder and CEO of Digital Railroad, was forced to suspend operations. He had received $15.2 million from venture firms Morgenthaler Ventures and Venrock Associates, and DN Capital. Digital Railroad is a platform which allows photo agencies to showcase their work and bring it to professional buyers. Additional rounds will be challenging for a […]
Christophe Romei, l’éditeur de Services Mobiles, organise fin novembre un voyage d’étude en Chine dont le programme est très riche et l’inscription encore ouverte. C’est l’occasion de faire un point sur le mobile en Chine et les apports pour nous européens. Franck Perrier : Pourquoi faut il regarder en Chine plutôt qu’en Europe ou aux […]
J’ai assisté ce matin à l’intervention de Tariq Krim lors du WEB2.0 à Berlin. Tariq, qui a quitté Netvibes il y a quelques mois, monte un fonds d’investissement avec quelques associés – dont Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (?) – et vous pouvez lui envoyer vos projets à tariq@krim.com. [Update: … ou fait partie d’un comité de sélection […]
Here is an interesting experience shared by Luis Suarez at Web2.0 in Berlin. Luis has been living without emails for 9 months. He works remotely, in Europe and reports to the States. He went from 30 emails a day to 20 a week. He did it using social software. 9 months ago, he decided to […]
“Les Etats-Unis sont devenus un état socialiste”. Cette boutade de Martin Varsavsky lors de son intervention aujourd’hui au Web2.0 à Berlin, est là pour illustrer le fait que les mesures récentes du gouvernement américain en ont fait le principal actionnaire des banques américaines dans un pays capitaliste par excellence. Ce paradoxe s’explique cependant par une […]
Lors de son intervention aujourd’hui au Web2.0 Berlin, Saul Klein, Index Ventures s’est montré optimiste mais exigeant. Il soulignait que l’internet est 6 fois plus gros qu’au sommet de la bulle de 2001. Beaucoup des leaders aujourd’hui, Youtube, eBay , Facebook, Amazon, Skyrock, ont été crées dernièrement. Times are going to be tough, mais l’internet […]
Ignite is an event where startups get 5 minutes to present their company. Here are my top 3 startups which presented today at WEB2.0 Expo in Berlin. Aka’aki is a mobile social software, which tells you everything you want to know about people you don’t know yet. So it’s a playfull approach to make new […]
Just met with Yoolink’s team at Web2.0 in Berlin. They announced the launch of their Beta version today. Yoolink Pro is a professional social bookmarking service. It allows you to create a community which aggregates content based on your interest. For exemple, if you work in an advertising company and on pitching an airline company, […]
Just arrived in Berlin for the Web2.0 Expo with the 6am flight. Web2.0 is a good opportunity to address existing trends and applications which will impact companies which do integrate 2.0 technologies. Quite a feww leading executives and visionaries will speak here. Imagine travelling between 2 geeks, Charles and Laurent who spent two hours playing […]