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Au PHIL des news episode 6

J'aime  me promener dans la Valley, l'odeur de Mountain View, Google, la startup Avenue (Castro Street)

Pour le coup nous commencons a trouver des sponsors, a commencer par Mozilla qui nous a permis de faire la connection Wifi (le Wifi Google, ce n'est plus ce que c'etait...).

La suite c'est la...

Au PHIL des news est une co-production Arnaud Eichholtzer/Tech4Business – Phil Jeudy

Les petits Jeudy du Père Jeudy - n°4 - 3 Juin 2010

Bon, j'ai ratisse large lors de ce numero 3, mais je suis pret a aller jusqu'au Portugal pour parler des choses que je decouvre et que j'aime bien. C'est clair ?

Pour ne pas refaire l'histoire, la suite c'est sur le site de Jean-Mimi...

© Une production du Billautshow - the video for the rest of us - the e-billautshow : the french worldwide hub

Au Phil des news Episode 05

Cette semaine, Phil est encore loin de chez lui car il est en direct du Web 2.0 Summit à San Francisco.  

Quatre news ont donc été choisies par Phil.

1. •HP rachète Palm la news de la semaine illustre bien le phénomène de concentration dans le monde du high tech.

2. •Facebook fait face à un mécontentement grandissant sur sa gestion de la vie privée et de la traçabilité des connections notamment via les boutons Like. 

   La suite ici...

Au PHIL des news Episode 05 from Entreliens TV on Vimeo.

Au PHIL des news est une co-production Arnaud Eichholtzer/Tech4Business – Phil Jeudy

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.

Mobile GeekTrip Tour: #2 Romain David

Romain David
Originally uploaded by Mathieu Ramage

Romain works for Lumos Labs, a SF company based developing Lumosity, a fast, fun and effective way to take care of your brain.
The concept of Lumos Labs are pretty simple:

• Scientific brain training games
• Improve memory and attention
• Feedback and tracking
• Full workout in only 10 minutes

Lumos Labs has raised $3Mio in 2008.
Romain joined the Company to head mobile development, which is something he really knows. I met Romain last Summer during TechCrunch August Party, and we met then several times.
I knew he had significant experience on mobile through his position at Orange for more than 5 years. Not only, we had the opportunity to talk about iPhone applications because now Lumos Labs run 2 games on AppStore:
- Memory Matrix
- Speed Brain
I tell you, those games are really addicted: I played with Memory Matrix (which is free of charge, Speed Brain is less than $1), very simple, can't stop!
The potential is big, and Memory Matrix has reached some top positions in Spain, France or Speed Brain in the US. Health industry is a large business...
We can compare those applications to successful games available on Nintendo DS... but so cheaper, and online! The AppStore is definitely a digital revolution in how to consume gaming as other examples...

The funny thing is that those 2 games have been developped... by a company based in France.
Copy that?!

Experience from people like Romain (not really expatriates, he's a very local guy!) are very helpful for French entrepreneurs thinking to localize in Silicon Valley. And understand how things are moving here!

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I want to help you launch your company!

Success Happens Here
Originally uploaded by leefly

Well, I just received this email from Jason Calacanis reminding me that TechCrunch50 is on its way...

"I want you to launch your new company at TechCrunch50 this September
in San Francisco.
Not only that, I want you to win the competition and take down the
$50,000 grand prize!"

Wouaou! I want that!

French startups, listen, this is your chance! My first client in Silicon Valley have been selected last year after we visited Jason in Santa Monica. You won't have any regret if you can make it, this is such a great experience and a great exposure...

But... ARE YOU READY?!
I mean, are you really ready? And not: do you consider yourself ready!
Your website, the product, the pitch, the Exec Summary...
No, you're not exclusive in this market. Yes, you have dozens of competitors somewhere in Silicon Valley.
Yes, you have talent, a great idea, you believe in your team. No, nobody's waiting for you here in San Francisco Bay, in US market.

I told that already several times, I strongly believe in European entrepreneurship, in French "savoir-faire". I've build my business on this vision, to facilitate localization in Silicon Valley. But after more than a year spent here, going in many conferences, discussing with experts, listening to some local gurus, there's some work to be done to make first shot... the beginning of a succesful story here. My hope, my objective!

So applying to TechCrunch50 is one thing. Get some advice and meet some guys here could be helpful...
Let me know! We'll go through some helpful steps!
Oh yeah... please no "me-tos" or "twitter-no-money" like. Something solid, with monetization, you see?!

To subscribe to Jason Calacanis newsletter: click here. You don't know Jason Calacanis? Come on...

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Finovate Startup 2009: where Financial Technology Innovators Gather!

FinTech startups have their own show! I really agree to the fact that innovating financial technology startups have more than their own challenge: being successful, monetize... Usual stuffs...

I think there's potential for some revolution when you see such not controlled economic disasters like "Subprime earthquake" in the US, "Crazy Trader Affair" at Societe Generale in France, and I can remind Madoff scandal  or other Parmalat use case in Italy.

There will be some 32 demos with all those presenters, like Lending Club with a promising "social lending network where credit-worthy borrowers and individual investors come together to provide value beyond what traditional banks can offer" I already know, or discover Wesabe which develops a money management tool through collective intelligence...

Giving more control et regulations on financial transactions? Encourage alternative systems, to give more options and control to people on the ground? 

Well let's see some innovations, and have a look on this amazing initiative coming from Europe, Twollars.com ... which is not a new opportunity to talk again about something around Twitter (oh no!), but to me a good example to think about a new currency model. Behind the line of this smart project, there are some tracks for next revolution maybe?!

Altaide Valley is Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner!

BizSpark is a new Microsoft innovative program that unites Startups with entrepreneurial and technology resources in a global community with a common goal of supporting and accelerating the success of a new generation of high-potential Startups.

Altaide Valley is now declared as Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner!
If you're interested in joining this innovative program, just let us know and we'll support you to submit your startup!

Mobile can be smart and useful: check Dial2Do

I discovered Dial2to at Microsoft Launch 08 Conference in Montain View.

Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite internet content. It’s easy and handsfree. A voice to text machine!

I received some news from them recently regarding new features:

• Some cool new commands - you can now post *and* listen to your email, calendar, twitter, friendfeed, blogs, evernote, i want sandy, mosio and more                         
• Some fun, simple content to listen to: Huffington Post, TechCrunch, New York Times, Yahoo Finance, etc. And if you really must, Perez Hilton!                         
• Roll-your-own commands: if you don’t like what we’ve provided - make your own! You can now make your own commands in Dial2Do and have something happen - post to a URL, send an email or read you some RSS content                         
• An improved layout to assist your navigation around the site

I asked few questions to Ivan MacDonald, CEO few days before last Mobile2.0 Conference in San Francisco...

So just to give a good example on what a great mobile application could be, some simple questions:

- What is Dial2do? 

Dial2Do is a phone-service for drivers. It lets you get things done safely and conveniently by just using your voice. You can send Text Messages, Send and Listen to Email, Create Reminders, Update your Twitter stream and use a range of other services by just calling a number and saying what you want to do.

- Could you tell us few words regarding Dial2Do background? What's the story behind the product? 

Well we looked at where people spend so much of their time - in the car. Over 80% of Americans commute to work.  I myself drive every day and of course some of my brightest ideas for things I should do come to me during this time :)  Without Dial2Do, this time is typically spent listening to the radio or maybe making phone calls. But that's about it.  So many ideas for things you should do come to you during that time, but you can't act on those ideas, especially with the increasing Hands-free safety legislation in the US and elsewhere.  So we wanted to make a service that would be kind of like the 'drivers assistant' a number you phone when you want to get something done.  It might be something simple, like creating a little reminder for a thought that just came into your head, or you might want to listen to your email to check for a particular message from someone, or add an event to your calendar.   We wanted to offer "One number to get things done."

- What is your vision of mobile space and how being successful in it! Is profitability a reachable target? 

Great new interfaces and 3G are finally making mobile a reality for data driven services.  Of course they don't really help during the time you are driving for 40-90 minutes per day. So we think that Voice activation has a huge future.  In fact users expectations that they can get things done while mobile, increases the opportunity to voice activate the services they use the most.  And of course the jury is still out on what kindof business models users like for mobile services.  We don't think there is a 'one size' fits all in the great debate about flat-rate subscriptions -v- pay as you use -v- advertising but we do think that if you create a compelling service that people use/call several times a day you can monetize it profitably.

- We met in Silicon Valley the first time. You come regularly. Are you looking for things you don't have in Europe and why?!

Well about 75% of our users are in the US right now and we have focused there which is maybe unusual for a startup from Ireland.  But the US is a good opportunity for us, Hands-free legislation has really just started to kick in in California and elsewhere just this year, so our offering is being received well by users.  Also, so many of the companies who are partnering with are in Silicon Valley, so it makes sense for us to be there.

There's some additional ideas around that product. My 10 cents (let's be optimistic).

Paul Graham is speaking: "Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy"

Image via CrunchBase

I'm not supposed here to pick up any content I found on Internet, but more give feedback from my entrepreneur experience with Altaide Valley.
But to me Paul Graham is definitely someone we have to follow very closely, mostly if you ran a startup or you've got a project to start.

So please read his last post...

"The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies.

When Microsoft and Apple were founded.

As those examples suggest, a recession may not be such a bad time to start a startup.  I'm not claiming it's a particularly good time either.  The truth is more boring: the state of the economy doesn't matter much either way..."

Read full article here.