(nous avons aussi une video en français cette fois-ci) highlights: just a few days left to register (for free) to our startup competition and get a chance to be onstage and get free expo space (deadl...
Thanks Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt for having me as the guest of Triangulation on Twit yesterday, I enjoyed the conversation!
LeWeb is now at LeWeb.co which is quickly becoming the default and coolest extension for startups as well as Twitter (t.co) or Google using it. And you can talk to the team behind .co too, meet Juan ...
I was talking about a friend who is getting serious about running and asked me advice since I ran 3 marathons (which is nothing compared to the one marathon per week my friend Scott Dunlap runs, you ...
Late March, I had to let go many great people in my Seesmic team, unfortunately after having tried for months to find a home for the whole team as a whole and did not succeed. What I decided to do wa...
I have to admit I was getting ready to drop picking and announcing a theme at LeWeb, just because it’s actually taking a lot of time every year to think about what is the core trend of the indu...
There are many Android marketplaces for developers to post apps in addition to Google Play, such as the Amazon one (second tablet in sales on the market after the iPad), the Nook, all the local carri...
Geraldine and myself were at Coachella music festival (thanks, Shak) which was awesome and we recorded a video that was so noisy in the background (thanks for anyone who helped) that we subtitled our...
LeWeb London will happen on June 19-20 so the team is working hard on it.Had wonderful few days in London last week and it was the second time I saw the venue, the Central Hall Westminster. I have be...
I’m having fun just highlighting one startup every day as I’m preparing LeWeb London. After Klarna and Voxer, here is the red hot Highlight. Highlight was definitely the star of South by ...
In addition to the killing in Toulouse itself, I can’t help but think there is something wrong here. The Amazon ad, of course. The result of violence in films and video games mixed with the new...
I love my 11 years son Greg to be able to interrupt me at any time with Voxer, a Walkie-Talkie app that is really simple to use with excellent quality. I hear it’s got 2.5 million daily users a...
You might have heard that this week, after having tried for months to keep the entire team of my company Seesmic I had to let go about half of it (also here and here)… Here is a great group of ...
Klarna It’s one of those companies that I had never heard of until suddenly many of my trusted friends talk to me about them so I had a look. What is it? A competitor to Paypal and over online ...
Very interesting conversation in Davos today about the human brain and how it works. In the experiment above (which is like 10 years old) they made a synthetic computer voice and image talk and it...
I’m moderating tomorrow a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos about artists and social networks. Do you have great examples of art being created with the use of social networks in a co...
The trendy Silencio Club by David Lynch in Paris, where Sean Parker held his party at LeWeb, pic Paris by Mouth I was about to name them but no, Path is about privacy first, so I won’t. Want to...
Today it’s my first day as official US immigrant, I entered customs through the new immigrant line as a future Green Card holder. I have been living in the US for 4.5 years under an investor vi...
After many years on Typepad and after having launched Six Apart in Europe in 2004 it feels pretty weird to me to have my blog powered by WordPress but I think it better fits my needs now. Huge respec...
Yesterday Mike Arrington left TechCrunch to launch his own fund the Crunchfund. Today MG Siegler leaves TechCrunch to become a VC. As a “journalist – reporter – blogger” many ...
My 16 years old son Arthur first told me “I will delete my entire Facebook profile and create a new empty one when they launch Timeline” He got so scared that his current friends would se...
“I really don’t care about you, all I need is your money for my startup, and I don’t want your sucky preference terms.” could say an entrepreneur to a VC. Mike Arrington wrote...
I just came back to the office from a great lunch with my friend Phil Kaplan (yeah, not this one), I’m a big fan of the fuckedcompany.com founder. When I get back to my San Francisco office the...
A lot has been written about Windows 8, but I had a great conversation with our CTO Marco Kaiser and I felt like sharing it here: his thoughts mainly and mine (a little) about the new Windows 8 OS an...
One of the top challenges of any service launching it to pass the influencers verdict. Look at Dan Reimold’s post (that I am discovering tonight because his post is on Techmeme) about the failu...
In many deals, I see people wondering about “what if it works“. Seth Godin has a great point here. I see it mostly in acquisition of startups deals which have earn-outs. Many many times t...
Hey, Avis, I have a “President’s Club” customer card, I guess by the name it must be that I am important to you. I just made a reservation for a car using that number and it told me...
Great post by Mark Suster about Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO I have always had a COO in any of my companies, when I had no means to pay for one it was my wife, Geraldine, and she still i...
(pic, Joi Ito) I have read so much B-S- about Michael Arrington’s supposedly displaced integrity as a writer that I thought I should set the record straight. Mike has been an investor in my com...
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