You must get separate personal and business Twitter accounts. Stop being lazy and do it now. Stan Berteloot, Marketing Director at KDS, gave the same bit of advice during his talk, “Follow Me on Twitter” at the STC France annual conference, where I gave a keynote address recently. This is what’s happening: Francophilia, my startup,… [Read more…]
March 24, 2009
I like teaching and public speaking because I love opportunities to share things that I find exciting. I gave my latest talk, The Sum of Your Parts: The Importance of Online Identity, as a keynote address at the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication – France. The theme of the conference was Connecting… [Read more…]
February 26, 2009
It was Seedcamp week in Paris, with the first Paris Mini Seedcamp on the 24th. I went to the special Seedcamp edition of the OpenCoffee Club meeting the next day, as well as the first Paris TechCrunch Talk in the afternoon. The subject of the latter was the state of entrepreneurship in France, and there… [Read more…]
February 6, 2009
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, right? Maybe not so much on the Web, where our olfactory senses don’t do us much good. When you name your startup zlignob, you’re playing a dangerous game. Some people try to compensate for the meaningless signifier… [Read more…]
January 1, 2009
I went to LeWeb ’08 in Paris in December and spent most of my time talking to people about their startup projects, approaching clusters of (mostly) young (mostly) guys (tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it) who tended to be huddled in groups of three and four. I rudely interrupted their conversations by waving my… [Read more…]
March 31, 2009
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