A twitter friend sent me an invite to Pinterest, as I’m interested in what it does. However, do far, all it has done is annoy me! Clicking the link from the email, the first thing it offered was the ability to sign in with Facebook or Twitter. There was no alternative way of creating an […]
Past and Future 2012
Time to look back and look forward again. So how did I get on with my ambitions for the last year? So here are the 2011 ambitions. 1. Lose 1 stone. Again, not a huge target, but it’s achievable with minimal changes. I’ve got the iphone apps all set up, with Shapeup for food tracking […]
LeWeb: Fabrice Grinda
Fabrice Grinda, Internet Entrepreneur, angel investor,Co-CEO, OLX “The Trials and Tribulations of Angel Investing in Brazil, Russia and around the world!†Has made mistakes with everything…has made them all. So here’s some tips about not making them! Brazil has many successful internet companies; there is a huge business ecosystem. Brazil is growing fast, 7.5% in […]
LeWeb: Fernando Madeira
Fernando Madeira, Co-Founder & CEO, Terra Latin, America Latin America update (photo by Adam Tinworth) You should never tell a secret to Loic, as he asks you to come to LeWeb and share with anywhere. The secret is the digital revolution in Latin America. There is a lot of activity there, 1000s of entrepreneurs, plus […]
LeWeb: Ben Parr
Ben Parr: Some top trends (photo by Adam Tinworth) The Local Social Network: it’s not just location, it is about groups, about communities. It’s about meetups, or social enterprise groups The intersection of entertainment and digital, that is Hollywood and Silicon Valley, It will take off next year. Web integrates into shows, YT has TV. […]
LeWeb: Twitter
Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform, Twitter and MG Siegler, General Partner, Crunchfund The new version has rolled out to a few people, (the one on the web), it is a slow rollout. They want to focus on being simple, consistent and fast, so it works across multiple devices. This is a combination of the long-term […]
LeWeb: Commerce
Matthew Mengerink, Vice President and General Manager of Platform , X.Commerce-eBay Inc. & Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Technical Evangelist and Author,Rackspace People don’t want to appear to be idiotic when they buy things. Mathew builds storefronts for retailers, what trends is he seeing. For merchants, the storefront is a stressful place, but it does not […]
LeWeb: Governments and Startups
How european Governments support startup ecosystems Moderated by: Sherry Coutu, Former CEO & Angel Investor. Nicolas Princen, Advisor for New Media and Information Technology, Office of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Eric Van der Kleij, CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation One of the challenges is what can the gov actually do, can’t they just get out of […]
LeWeb: Ignite
Playing (with) the Market-Fun Facts about the Android Market Yuval Ariav, @yuvalariav We asked people what made a good app. But they have already answered that question, with reviews etc. The data is there. But how to turn it into information. What are they saying? Look at words on 1 and 5 star reviews. good […]
LeWeb: SoLoMo and Media
Moderated by: Thomas Crampton, Asia-Pacific Director of Social Media, Ogilvy Mather Paul-François Fournier, Executive Vice President, Orange Technocentre Gabe Rivera, Founder & CEO, Techmeme Bruno Patino, Senior Executive Vice President, Strategy Digital Director, France Télévisions Group & France 5 Brad Garlinghouse, President, Consumer Applications & Commerce Group, AOL (photo by Adam Tinworth) They were asked […]
LeWeb: Niklas Zennstrom
Niklas Zennstrom, Founding Partner & CEO, Atomico and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb It’s good to sell a company twice. The first time I was part of the product..so emotional. The second time I was an investor, so more a financial decision. (Skype). It has ended up in a good place. How are the trends? […]
LeWeb: TV and the social web
Deb Roy, Co-Founder & CEO, Bluefin Labs “Connecting TV to the social web” (photo by Adam Tinworth) Record everything, dev data machines/algorithms to find patters, dev visualisation so humans can see the connections and then dev them to make the world better Was looking at how his son learnt, wired up his house for camera […]
LeWeb: Social Thunderstorms
George Colony, Chairman & CEO, Forrester Research “Three Social Thunderstorms†1: The Death of the Web Processing power doubles, Moore’s Law, every 18 months. Will be there for next 10 years or so. Next, Hitachi Law, doubling of storage every 12 months about. Then the network. It is improving, not at the same speed as […]
LeWeb: Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, VP, Product Management, Google and MG Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund Now focuses on local and maps. Bringing things together. Checkins are useful for users, bring them together with friends. Interesting ways for us to monetise and for users to save money, so checkin offers, and daily deals etc. Looking to launch this next […]
LeWeb: Principals of Innovation
Carmine Gallo, Author, 7 Principles of Innovation based on the “Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.†(photo by Adam Tinworth) Writes books, seems to write things about Steve Jobs. He’s also a communications coach. So Presentation secrets of Steve Jobs was previous book, now the Secrets. Principal 1: Do what you love. Passion is everything. You […]
LeWeb: Evernote
Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb So it starts with another product launch (to be fair, the first today). Brings on person from Orange….Evernote and Orange met last year at LeWeb, Orange wanted to offer these platforms to their customers. So all Orange customers in France next year will get access […]
LeWeb: Bill Gross from Idealab
Bill Gross, Founder & CEO, Idealab “Learning From Failure: 20 Years of Entrepreneurial Lessons in 20 Minutes” Solar power plans at highschool. Gave Lesson 1: Market Power, when market taking off without you doing, is best. Need to get in early for this. At college, designed high end speakers. Sold at school and in stores. […]
LeWeb: The Money Panel
Money Panel: Moderated by: Jonathan Goodwin, CEO & Partner J Goodwin & Co LLP Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech V Harry Nelis, Partner, Accel Partners Dave McClure, 500 Hats Eric Archambeau, General Partner, Wellington Partners HN: looking at game sin Mobile, eg Rovio etc, one of the first investors in Facebook. Looking at […]
LeWeb: Virgin Galactic
George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic Wants to talk about space but also about sharing about dreams (shows video of Branson and the space plane/rocket). When we think of space, do we think of a large gov programme that needs lots and lots of people? or is it closer to Virgin Galactic, which is smaller. Galactic […]
LeWeb: Instagram
Kevin Systrom, CEO, Instagram and Alexia Tsotsis, Writer, TechCrunch Learnt at Odeo, it’s about the team not the first product you worked on. At BOurbon, learnt same thing, the product not working. With no dark moments, you just go sideways, you don’t learn. With Instagram we realised we had to do something new. And that […]