Here is a smart way to spend the upcoming thursday. Open Coffee club is an informal gathering of entrepreneurs and VCs from 10am to 12am. It’s right down town in Paris : restaurant Urbi et Orbi, register below or drop by. It’s likely to be a small group of active people since May 17th is […]
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet the co-founder and CEO of Priceminister. com has a lot of celebrate. He just turned 30, completed his second acquisition last week and already has a success story behind him. Price Minister has 52 million products on line which makes it the largest marketplace in Europe in terms of products available, 10 times […]
Can France, or any country in the world, build a Google like success? Systaime says Yes. Here is a machinima (in french) he recently posted on Eyeka about the opportunities in France and the tech environment. If the web is wordwide and yet managed centrally, if financial ressources are available, since talent is everywhere, in […]
Joost , the internet broadcast quality television platform, annouced on May 10th that they raised $45 million from 5 leading firms : Sequoia, Index, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS and Viacom I think that the founders’ choice of firms is very smart. Combining leading venture firms in the US and in Asia gives Joost windows […]
Jean Michel Maurer is an e-business and marketing consultant who interviews entrepreneurs and members of the e-community in France. He’s done it with me, but also with : – my former future partner, founder of V-POD Rodrigo Sepulveda Shulz and his second self – Philippe Rodriguez, founder of Wantuno, his blog – Jean-Yves Quentel, founder […]
Barcamp is a good way to get an overview of the start-ups. In Paris, the ones i’ve covered in earlier posts are The Tokeda Project and Moovement. The full list is here. Richard tells us more about some of the players here. Logistics : Meet at Yahoo! 17 rue Guillaume Tell 75017 Paris. On May […]
Carlo Montali, the Editorial Director of World Picture News, an editorial photo agency based in New York, will launch WPN in Europe this year, most likely based out of Paris. He is looking to partner with an entrepreneur with background in the news picture industry and a solid ambition for himself and the agency. Although […]
I remember chatting with Charles Nouyrit at a recent CEO bloggers dinner. He had joined Groupe Reflect a few months back and enjoyed business development for this web agency. I thought he was pretty settled and committed not to “fly from a tree to the other”. And there he was, announcing the Tokeda Project. Charles […]
Microsoft announced today the aquisition of Screentonic, one of the european leader of advertising on Mobile. The financial transaction was not disclosed. Put this acquisition back in perspective with the acquisition of online advertising platforms : DoubleClick by Google or the deal between Yahoo! and Comcast.. Here are 3 leading wordwide brands buying market shares […]