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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 [...]

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 [...]

L’innovation en Europe vs Silicon Valley, les challenges..

Great article on Mashable recently
10 keys to present your start-up to the US
Vous êtes une start-up Européenne? Rien n’est gagné, annonce l’auteur:
1/ Les ressources en capital sont très limitées en Europe
2/ La taille du marché y est réduite
3/ La mentalité Europeenne prend la poussière: face à l’entrepreneuriat et à l’innovation, l’attitude des Europeens laisse [...]

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 [...]

Yubico, ma pépite du mois

Comme de coutume, ce post commence par un coup de coeur pour un petit bout de femme -Stina Ehrensvärd- qui, une première création d’entreprise, un mari et trois enfants en Suède dans sa valise, est partie pour un troisième challenge en fondant il y a un an dans la Silicon Valley la start-up Yubico.
Comme elle [...]

Les salaires dans la Silicon Valley

Plusieurs échanges récemment à propos des supposés outrageux salaires en Silicon Valley:
- par rapport à San Francisco et au reste des US
- par rapport à la France
Alors j’en ai profité que l’on me demande l’info pour mettre mon nez dans le niveau des salaires tech aux US et dans la Silicon Valley grace à l’étude [...]