The 11 Oxygen Balloons: story of an inspiring women entrepreneur, Maria Sipka

Her name is Maria Sipka and she is the most inspiring women entrepreneur I have met in the last 6 months. You put her in a room and her passion and happiness litteraly radiate on and touch every single perso. A real ’storm’

Maria kindly shared with me a post about her journey building [...]

My selection of articles of the week

Here in this beautiful Pearl..

Luckily, some articles about happiness, success and optimism this week…We all know how these three are undoubtly linked and how important it is to go back to these basics in periods of crisis like the one we are going through.
I will also add this great article from the NYT here [...]

Girls in Tech…What’s in for girls in Business Development?

I must admit my mixed feelings about entering a room full of 150 women last week for my first Girls in Tech Event in the city. Somewhat not accustomed to a higher and more strident tone of voices/brouhaha
150 women all ears to listen to the amazing and inspiring panel of the -female- business developers of [...]

This week’s must-read

Check it out here

When the best UK software start-ups visit Silicon Valley..

..they can not state enough how Europe still has a long way to go…
US is still far ahead, at least in terms of market size and access to funding.
I have had the chance to host the UK WEB Mission at Plug and Play yesterday - amazing experience- and we discussed around a panel the challenges [...]

For those who are skeptical about Twitter

OK, I definitely have to tell you all about my sudden and unexpected adoption of Twitter…Reluctance followed by exitment followed by disappointment.…
But not really willing to writte the 30th post you will read about Twitter TODAY (3 on VentureBeat, 1 on Mashable and Techcrunch, 2 on TheNextWeb)
Found this funny video,nice caricature that will appeal to [...]

Screening early stage start-ups: key factors

In the start-ups world, screening has a very broad meaning.
If you are looking for investment or partners at the very early stage, you have to expect your start-up to be screened a thousand times before anybody consider engaging further with you. Screening can take 5 minutes up to a three weeks (due diligence), but either way [...]

DEMO 09… looking for analysis!

DEMO 09 is usually a not-to-be-missed conference in the high tech world.
Last years it featured 70 of the top high tech start-ups in this world in front of ‘la creme’ of the high tech community - 700 attendees- , but this year in only featured 39 with about 500 attendees.
And has surprisingly made little noise [...]

The world has never needed more leaders than today

Times are so though, every single business is challenged by this crisis, from innovative start-ups to giants like E-Bay. 
I have had the chance to hear a speech about leadership from the new CEO of E-Bay John Donahoe couple of days ago at Plug and Play. What is a good leader? What key decisions have to be taken [...]

The most beautiful picture…

Of Paris HERE
A beautiful and amazing creation, I am still trying to figure out what is the technology behind this… Running investigations, but if you have an idea let me know!