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Video and innovation: a social meetup

I started to use video when Seesmic started its project in 2007. It was a very interesting way of using technologies for developing some conversations, relationships, projects, etc. Loic LeMeur's vision was "avant-garde" at this time, by developing something very new, innovative. I would do everything to develop a comparable video platform. I develop some ideas around this, about use case and monetization. Source: TinroMedia on Youtube

Looking for VP Marketing / Web 2.0 / Social Software (San Francisco, CA)

A new way to optimize Performance

Leading European provider of Enterprise Social Software, our solution enables organizations to create powerful professional networks where employees, partners and customers can share conversations, ideas, skills, resources and best practice with one another. We promotes a culture of collaboration and openness that helps businesses of any sizes increase their sales productivity, foster new ideas and increase staff satisfaction and retention. With operations in France and United Kingdom (starting in USA), the company has a track record of successfully enabling social and business networking for some of Europe’s leading companies (100.000 users with customers and partners in France, Belgium, Germany, UK and Scandinavia). The company is founded by Sofinnova (Venture) and Dassault Systèmes (world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions).

Mission :

We are now looking to strengthen the current management team with the appointment of a world class VP of Marketing, to build the brand amongst the customer base, leverage partner relationships and drive aggressive revenue growth. Responsibilities include building your team, managing external consultants, liaison with international teams, PR and analyst relations, lead generation, SEO, and social media campaign implementation.

Startups: go for LeWeb'08 competition! Plus a Birthday to remind...

Geraldine and Loic Le Meur have announced LeWeb'08 program you can see more in details here.

They have once again this year included a startup competition in partnership with Seedcamp.
The competition is opened to 30 startups, applying is free of charge. They will accept startup applications until October 20, 2008.

I have only one thing to tell: go for it!
Oyez entrepreneurs! LeWeb'08 is one of the greatest moment in Europe to validate your pitch, compare your business and vision to others and get all the benefits from the coverage of this great event!

By the way, meet us there, we are proud partners!

Of course this is not a final process, neither having the chance to get few words from your company on TechCrunch.
But it takes part to give you a ROI (Return on Information...) which is to be seriously considered. And helps you to take some time for review, strategic thoughts (once again but it's good to have a break on operations)... Then it can take part to your company consolidation, until you realize it's 5 years birthday of it, like for Mobissimo... happy birthday and congrats for that, Beatrice Tarka, CEO of this travel search engine based in San Francisco (available in 5 languages)!

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