Archive for the ‘startups’ Category
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
This morning, both Loic Le meur and Mark Evans mentioned they would love to see a name reservation system. Bouncing the idea further around coffee earlier, we think it can have great potential with incentive on both side of board, for the startups and the early adopters.
30 some words to ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
A quick note to let everyone know that we just added the new seesmic wordpress plugin for leaving video comments. Record away!
The introduction video from Loic at the Video 2.0 panel a few minutes ago.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
As a follow-up to my post on friday, there is now independent confirmation that Microsoft has signed at least its side of a Letter of Intent to acquire Xobni. The price on that letter is unknown for the moment and would likely be above an initial offer of less than ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Speculations (here , here) [may have been] were true. Yesterday, Xobni finally came [is rumored to have come] to an agreement with Microsoft to be acquired. An official announcement with the details has yet to be made.
Is this really the best way to go for this promising startup? From ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
To most of us this will sound obvious, but I've been running into quite a few startups that were neglecting this essential aspect of their infrastructure.
If your worst nightmare is getting an email or a call from one of your friendly user saying "I haven't been able to login for ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
So you have been hearing the rumors yesterday and reading the news today. Fring has launched the first iphone application that allows to make Skype and VoIP calls right from your iphone. It also integrates chat messengers and your twitter stream.
The real truth is, I'm a blackberry addict and have ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Spending the last few days in Amsterdam for The Next Web was great. European entrepreneurs have embarked on the bandwagon and are far from trailing behind. Anyway, I'm still processing the massive amount of information gathered during the conference, all the startups seen, the talks and chats of the last ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
I've been using Dopplr since it launched and it was a personal savior from day one. It really meant, one place to manage travel itineraries and a simple way to share it with others. Up to now, I have been using it mainly for family, friends and my close network. ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
At Silentale, we launched a splash page quickly after our name became public in order to maintain visibility and to fulfill two major tasks every startup needs to do:
put a very simple form to collect emails to invite them back prior to the launch; and
have an anchor to a few ...
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Technology entrepreneur based in Paris, I moved from Montreal late last year and founded 