The consequences of the financial markets’ drop for whatever reason are incomparable to understand the difficult choices that face new technology companies’ founders, entrepreneurs and CEO’s. Already many accounts and actions have been communicated (Sequoia, Seesmic, Fast company, etc..).
The Cornelian choice of any entrepreneur is to permanently manage situations which gravitate around the needs of [...]
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Web 2.0
My friend Ouriel has written a post entitled « The man of the situation » (in french) at an opportune moment when many startups are going through radical management changes.
After starting Ads-Click in 2004, I brought the company up to 35 people in three years with two fundraises totalling 7M$, created new innovative products sold [...]
For many months I have supported Xavier Comtesse's essays on my blog. He is by far the best evangelist of the ConsumActor concept and of UGC in the world.
Like all visionaries and influential people, he disturbs and speaks out against the keepers of the old economic, social and political world who desperately hang on to [...]
The arrival of video on the Internet provokes often unknown or ignored edge effects. If I’m speaking about a video booth, it’s in reference to the photo booth which spits out poor quality photographs, just good enough to be put on a passport or driver’s license.
Now that video conferencing is arriving on Skype and on [...]
In 2006, I was convinced that a bubble was about to take place. It’s no longer the bubble that is to be talked about today, but the absence of a business model because there is a fundamental piece missing from the social and Web 2.0 foundation: MONETIZATION.
In 2006, I had predicated that Netvibes would have [...]
The Ads-Click booth at the LeWeb3 conference in Paris inaugurates a new tendency – which consists in transforming the exhibit space into a friendly meeting space for visitors, speakers and the organizers.
Animation is guaranteed on the booth, where there were non-stop crowds. Many key figures and VIPs were interviewed in the comfortable colored Fatboys (beanbags).
Thanks [...]