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 […]
LeWeb: Foursquare
Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder & CEO, Foursquare and Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Technical Evangelist and Author, Rackspace CLose to 30m locations around the world. Started with a couple thousand venues now. 15m users, 4m checkins a day. 600k companies. Using Ec2 at the moment, getting expensive. 170m API calls a day. About 50% of usage is […]
LeWeb: Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google SoMoLO: Mobile is always the first question and answer, everything goes mobile. Local and social, that’s where people are. We have seen breakouts in companies over the last 5 years that don’t need technician to use..it’s all easy to use now Google promo for phone on Android, from Hugo Barro. […]
LeWeb: Morning sessions
I combined notes from the morning sessions, many of which were about new product launches. Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder & CEO, Uber and MG Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund Uber have got cars now on the ground at Paris. They’ve launched here. (that’s their big news). 18 months into operations as a company…came up with the idea […]
LeWeb: Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Designer, Photographer, Publisher, Designer and Film Director & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb During the dicussion, Karl & Loic will be joined by Natalie Massenet, Founder & Executive Chairman, THE NET-A-PORTER Group Limited The show started off with some live breakdancing, then the first person interviewed was Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion designer. […]
LeWeb: Early doors
I arrived slightly too early at LeWeb this morning, before they were really ready. People were running around still setting up, on stage, rehearsals were taking place, running through demos and videos, some of the ‘top secret’ that we were asked not to mention as they are big reveals for later in the day. I’m […]
LeWeb: Kicking off with Renault
I’m here at LeWeb in Paris for the next few days, again as an official blogger. Expect the usual set of liveblogs from the main stage, plus the odd tweet and photo. The event kicked off for us bloggers last night with a reception held at the L’Atrium Renault, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. It […]