I’ve spent the last few years immersed in and blogging about the Internet startup scene, and there is one thing everybody in that world knows: you may have an idea for a startup, but without a developer your idea is worth jack shit. And if you can’t pay your developer, you damn well better offer… [Read more…]
November 4, 2010
Doesn’t just about everybody think French is sexy? I do. But you knew that. You can read about the sexy French startup scene and find a list of some young startups that have impressed me in the article I wrote for ReadWriteWeb, “Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Paris,” which was recently translated into French for… [Read more…]
April 22, 2010
I’ve only ever been on one blind date. It was a bust. A friend set us up because we both wore black all the time. That was obviously not enough. The SeedNetworking experience was also a major bust. First of all, the room was full of suits. It looked and acted like a job fair. Web… [Read more…]
March 30, 2010
I was always slightly bummed that I never got a chance to try speed dating. The concept intrigued me on so many levels. Seems like it would be great blog fodder and a blast in general. But I found a workaround. I’ll be trying an alternative version of it in April through SeedNetworking, which sets… [Read more…]
March 14, 2010
There’s a new addition to my family! Meet the Francophilia Gazette. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet of juicy news tidbits and spicy culture bites from France: gossip, trivia, pop culture, high culture, history, and more… A fresh take on France and Frenchness, with none of those tired articles about Brie and beaujolais nouveau… I’ve tested this… [Read more…]
March 5, 2010
Do you think there’s room on the Internet for startups that aren’t the product of a programmer’s brain? I do. But some things need to change. Way back in 2008, Bernard Lunn of ReadWriteWeb wrote about his vision for the near future of the Web in a brilliant three-part series in which he said: The Main Street… [Read more…]
December 18, 2009
Of all the terms I’ve heard to describe people who can work anywhere there’s wi-fi, my favorite is nomadic workers. There’s something exciting and mysterious and all Lawrence of Arabia about it. De tous les appellations que j’ai entendues pour parler des personnes qui travaillent partout où il y a du wi-fi, ma préférée est… [Read more…]
December 5, 2009
I’ve just created a Facebook group for women startup founders and management. Just a few weeks ago, I started talking to The Next Women in London about doing some blogging and interviews for them. To do that, I need access to women entrepreneurs. So I took the plunge and created Fondatrix. It’s something I’ve been… [Read more…]
August 15, 2009
Everybody who knows me knows I’m a champion of French startups: on my own blogs, on Web Worker Daily, and IRL. But I’m on the verge of being really pissed off. There’s a French startup that owes me around 300 Euros for a translation I did, and they’re six months late paying… The merde is… [Read more…]
July 27, 2009
…I’ve spent a few years with my finger on the racing pulse of the Web and I’ll tell you what. There’s a whole lot of crap out there. There are so many utterly ridiculous concepts that have managed to find programmers and investors, so many brain-wasters helping to speed along the decline and fall of… [Read more…]
June 19, 2009
It started with Springwise, which I subscribe to to see what’s hot out of the entrepreneurial oven. It’s always a refreshing read because it’s not only – or even mostly – about Internet startups and the latest Twitter app. You’d be amazed at how many great ideas and insights you can get reading about non-Web… [Read more…]
June 7, 2009
Every startup founder dreams of changing the world and/or striking it rich. And everything Internet-related seems to happen so fast that you can be easily fooled into believing that your startup has to be an overnight sensation in order to be considered worthwhile. It does work that way for some people. But most of us… [Read more…]
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