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 […]