Leweb 2009 - Startups

Publié le 19 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - 4 commentaires -
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This is my late and last post cove­ring Leweb 2009. Like every other year (2006, 2007, 2008), I will make a roun­dup of the pre­sen­ting star­tups in the conference.

This year, star­tups didn’t have to pay to present, like in pre­vious years. As a result, the com­pe­ti­tion see­med ope­ned to more early stage com­pa­nies and it did show. Only two had already got some VC fun­ding and less than half had signi­fi­cant busi­ness angel back-up. There were fewer star­tups pre­sen­ting: 16 ins­tead of 30 last year.

The selec­tion inclu­ded many ecom­merce tools, various social net­work tools, and other stuff. Many of these had some pieces of “real time web”, mostly through connec­ting somew­hat with Twit­ter and the likes. In the social net­wor­king space, most of the inno­va­tions are about inte­gra­ting the various social net­wor­king plat­forms around. Many many star­tups want to play this game, but only a few may survive.

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Leweb 2009 – Weird stuff

Publié le 16 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - Un commentaire -
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Since 2006, I’m playing the pho­to­re­por­ter role at Leweb, on top of blog­ging and networking.

This year, I took with me my two Canon reflex came­ras (DSLR) with a wide angle lense and a zoom lense. Every year, I learn the way to improve my shoo­tings. This year, I got very nice results with using a mix of high ISO sen­sors (5D II), wide apper­ture lenses (2.8), fast speed (1/400s) and with caring about good focu­sing. My pic­tures are not retou­ched at all beyond basic RAW files pro­ces­sing using Adobe Ligh­troom, with some color balance and ligh­ting adjust­ments. Des­pite the gear, I’m NOT a pro­fes­sio­nal pho­to­gra­pher. It’s just a hobby!

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Leweb 2009 – Sponsor speakers

Publié le 15 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - Un commentaire -
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There were many spon­sor spea­kers at Leweb. Although they see­med to be eve­ryw­here in the agenda, there were hope­fully more non-sponsor speakers!

Twit­ter was a pree­minent com­pany at Leweb since it was not only a spon­sor but it had its CEO and foun­der Jack Dor­sey tal­king. And it made a lot of sense since Twit­ter is a huge part of the real time web phe­no­me­non. Jack spent also signi­fi­cant time in Paris, going to the City Hall for the “.paris” recep­tion, mee­ting with Queen Rania, tal­king to @nk_m, etc.

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Leweb 2009 – Gurus and illustrious speakers

Publié le 15 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - Un commentaire -
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Let’s talk a bit about these “TED moments” from Leweb, when spea­kers really shake the audience and create a strong emo­tio­nal connec­tion. In most cases, it was with sub­stance. There were at least 4 to 5 such occa­sions at this year’s Leweb.

It’s always ama­zing to watch the dif­fe­rences of com­mu­ni­ca­tion styles bet­ween spea­kers. Cor­po­rate spea­kers tend to care about every word they say, keep a stable voice, and they avoid to hurt any­body as if their legal depart­ment was hiding behind the black stage cur­tain. Some were even rea­ding their speeches, huh oh. On the contrary, good spea­kers move, shake hands, speak loud, use com­mon sense, and they make a hit. Could you have both? I wish Cor­po­ra­tion could. In the long run, they’ll have to. Other­wise, fire­side chats with Loic were fine.

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Leweb 2009 – The Scorecard

Publié le 14 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - Un commentaire -
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It’s been a couple days now since Leweb 2009 ended. And I’m quite far from the “Real time web” with that report of the event, which as usual, will be split in a seve­ral posts.

This year’s edi­tion was defi­ni­ti­vely a hit. The most impor­tant suc­cess fac­tors of such an event are: do we enjoy these so-called “TED moments”, when spea­kers build an emo­tio­nal connec­tion with the audience, then, do we meet the right people there and at last, are the logis­tics doing well.

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With the Traveling Geeks @ Orange

Publié le 13 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - 3 commentaires -
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This is the last part of my report of the Tra­ve­ling Geeks tour in Paris before Leweb.

We met with Orange to have a glimpse of all the solu­tions they pro­vide to their consu­mer cus­to­mers: IPTV, mobile solu­tions, web solu­tions, tablets, etc. It took place in the Orange Lab situa­ted at Cha­tillon, in the sou­thern Paris suburb.

We were quite well wel­co­med by mar­ke­ting, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and pro­duct folks in their sho­wroom, inclu­ding Sté­pha­nie Hos­pi­tal (Mar­ke­ting and Biz­dev VP in the Audience and Adver­ti­zing Divi­sion, in bet­ween the gee­kettes below) and Eric Barilland (Elec­tro­nic Medias Directors).

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With the Traveling Geeks @ Cedexis and Parrot

Publié le 13 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - Un commentaire -
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We are near the end of my report of the Tra­ve­ling Geeks in Paris before Leweb. One star­tup and one mid-sized company.

Cedexis @ Club Melcion

We met Julien Cou­lon, the foun­der of Cedexis, a for­mer busi­ness deve­lo­per at Akamai.

The com­pany pro­vides a Content Deli­very Net­works opti­mi­zing ser­vice, iden­ti­fying the ones with the best per­for­mance to opti­mize the traf­fic and qua­lity of ser­vice of your web site. It pro­vides both ana­ly­tic tools to iden­tify the best ser­vices and pro­vide reports to both web sites and CDN ser­vices, and an auto­ma­tic swit­ching engine to select the right ones at each and every moment. CDN per­for­mance can always change and is not pre­dic­table, thus the need for a real time opti­mi­za­tion solution.

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With the Traveling Geeks @ Pearltrees

Publié le 13 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - 2 commentaires -
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The Tra­ve­ling Geeks met with Patrice Lamothe from Pearl­trees (@pearltrees) for nearly two hours at the begin­ning of the Tra­ve­ling Geeks tour.

This guy is run­ning the Inter­net star­tup buzz play­book like per­fect, at least for a French star­tup: he did a tour in the Sili­con Val­ley visi­ting local influen­cers and blog­gers, spon­so­red the Tra­ve­ling Geeks and Leweb, tal­king at Leweb in ple­nary ses­sion (twice…), crea­ting plug-ins, but­tons, that can be pla­ced eve­ryw­here on social sites, his site is in English, and so on. As a result, he got heck of a good visi­bi­lity. And we were very kindly wel­co­med in the com­pany which looks like an US star­tup: lots of cof­fee and… US sized patisserie.

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With the Traveling Geeks @ Paris Incubator

Publié le 13 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - 10 commentaires -
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The Tra­ve­ling Geeks visi­ted one of the five incu­ba­tors from Paris Deve­lop­ment, a joint ven­ture bet­ween the City of Paris and the Paris Cham­ber of Commerce.

Paris Deve­lop­ment has been in place for 10 years and has two goals: have foreign com­pa­nies set­tle in Paris and help local star­tups. All in all, they incu­bate 100 star­tups repre­sen­ting 600 folks. 200 work in the “rue des Haies” incu­ba­tor we visi­ted, one that is dedi­ca­ted to digi­tal medias. But the pre­sen­ting star­tups came from all the incu­ba­tors from Paris. Incu­ba­ted com­pa­nies pay for staying in the incu­ba­tor, although it’s quite modest in com­pa­ri­son with nor­mal com­mer­cial offices price. And it includes all ser­vices (net­work, phone, wel­come desk, etc). They have a long wai­ting list of star­tups and wel­come only 7% to 8% of the can­di­dates. Com­pa­nies stay in the incu­ba­tor for a maxi­mum 4 years.

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With the Traveling Geeks @ La Cantine

Publié le 13 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - Commenter -
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This second part of my report from the Tra­ve­ling Geeks tour in Paris is focu­sed on the com­pa­nies we visi­ted during the first two days, Mon­day 7th and Tues­day 8th of Decem­ber 2009. With star­tups with short pre­sen­ta­tions, star­tups with long mee­tings, then lar­ger com­pa­nies (Orange, Parrot).

I’ll start here with the star­tups we met at La Can­tine. I rea­lize I’ll need more posts for the rest of this two days visits.

We met com­pa­nies at La Can­tine (@lacantine) which were pre-selected by Cap Digi­tal (@Cap_Digital), a Paris area Digi­tal Media clus­ter. France crea­ted clus­ters back in 2005 against a model that works more or less in many Euro­pean coun­tries. There’s always a willin­gness to recreate some of the magic that exists in the Sili­con Val­ley. But eve­ry­body knows that the alchemy of the Val­ley is way more com­plex and dates back from a while (crea­tion of Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, the his­tory of the chip makers, etc).

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With the Traveling Geeks in Paris

Publié le 12 décembre 2009 et mis à jour le 2 mai 2010 - 3 commentaires -
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Dear rea­der, this is my first post in English. The rea­son is I par­ti­ci­pa­ted recently to the Tra­ve­ling Geeks tour in Paris and the rule of the game is to publish content that can be sha­red by its par­ti­ci­pants and within the Tra­ve­ling Geeks web site. So, no other solu­tion than English. Time to get really international!

In this first post, I’ll qui­ckly go through the agenda of this tour and then talk a lit­tle bit about my fel­low inter­na­tio­nal Tra­ve­ling Geeks blog­gers. We’ve spent four days toge­ther, two in a local tour and two at Leweb. That was a good oppor­tu­nity to get to know high-profile blog­gers from other coun­tries, not just the USA, and to share some views on digi­tal inno­va­tion as well as on Leweb itself. I enjoyed a lot this experience.

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