This is not a ladies luncheon, girls. No cucumber sandwiches. Instead, the Women Who Tech 2009 TeleSummit offers a dozen different panels on hot topics moderated by women who know what they’re talking about (from SlideShare, BlogHer, YouTube, MoveOn and more). Panels include Launching Your Own Startup, Social Networks and Diversity Barriers, and Innovation and… [Read more…]
April 22, 2009
Oh lucky me! I discovered Ykone, a sizzlin’ French startup last night when I saw their presentation at the Keiretsu Paris investors’ meeting. It’s a social network built around fashion brands that has really taken off in the couple of months since they launched. Delicious site (visually and in terms of interactivity), impeccable concept, an… [Read more…]
April 15, 2009
I attended an Entrepreneur Academy at the newly created Paris branch of Keiretsu Forum (the world’s largest business angel network) in January. It was a three-hour workshop on how to put together a successful investor presentation. During the workshop, the president of Keiretsu Paris, Jack Bays, offered some advice for French startups looking for funding.… [Read more…]
March 31, 2009
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…]
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 22, 2009
Web 2.0 was all about social and free, kind of like the Haight in the 60s. We tossed our inhibitions to the wind and let it all hang out. Alas, groovy people, the pendulum is swinging, as it inevitably must do. A sure sign: I had to pay WordPress money to change the CSS of… [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…]
April 27, 2009
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