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 [...]

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 start-ups about start-ups..

I did not know but it seems that the ’start-ups eco-system‘ is now so big- and getting bigger and bigger- that is can be considered as an independant and monetizable market… The market has reached a critical number of actors - investors, entrepreneurs, service providers, potential employees, potential partners, big corporations- with needs that had never been [...]

Air Bed and Breakfast, the new player in the travel space

Sounds like the right time to post the article that I had started to work on about Air Bed and Breakfast when I met the founders three weeks ago: they are making the headlines of Techcrunch today here.

Not that I feel like competing with Techcrunch much, but I thought I might share with you a [...]

What does the crisis teach small businesses?

I am surrounded by 220 start-ups all day, everyday. And the company I work for, Plug and Play Tech Center, is in itself - by the mentality, the organization, the business model- a start-up. All of these 221 entities are suffering today, for bad and….for good, much good actually.
Adversity has caught us and is [...]

Ready for a Pearl Revolution?

I am a news junkie. I love meaningful, learning, long and everlasting articles, full of relevant analysis and …SENSE!
The Web is by far the most powerful media today, because its content is endless. But it is also the weakest media because this content is not properly organized or searcheable.

Today, what the all Web and its [...]