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 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!

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 [...]

Tu, Il, Vous, Ils Twittent…mais Je ne Twitte toujours pas!

Twitter fait du bruit. Encore et toujours. On en parle ici mais surtout partout. On en parle beaucoup trop plutôt que pas assez.

Une dizaine d’articles ont traité de Twitter avant les vacances: la start-up atteignait le milliardième Twitt, controverses autour du concept même et de son business model.
Pour être honnete je croyais (j’espérais?) que Twitter [...]

Innovation at the CES..

The CES is the first major high tech event of the year. We were hoping for signs and comments regarding the overall mood of this event that would help us draw conclusions on where is the high tech economy at, at this beggining of 2009?

Is the crisis there? How are the key players reacting? Is [...]

Silicon Valley for international start-ups

A great video of the Plug and Play International and Collaboration Track last October:
Why do international start-up have to come to Silicon Valley? The answer is here…fantastic speakers!

The mood of words

At the beggining, this idea sounds to me definitely poetic: measuring the mood of an article, balancing the meaning of each one of its words, evaluating the emotionnal weight of each sentence.
An purely mathematical algorithm trying to solve and conquer the unspoken and uncalculable mystery of words…
That is what these two start-ups that I have [...]