Archive for the ‘startups’ Category

The European startup scene is building stronger bonds

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Andy McLoughlin & Alastair Mitchell, HuddleSo the TechCrunch Europa Awards are a wrap and I'm reliving the rush from all the excitement at yesterday's event. Although a big proportion of the crowd was from the UK and more specifically from London, Mike Butcher's effort to create deep, lasting connections all ...

Tiburon TV interviews @LeWeb08

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Viktoria Trosien captured some of the excitement at LeWeb08 by interviewing a few entrepreneurs present. She has started to post them at tiburon-tv.com. First interview is with Charles Nouÿrit of MyID.is certified The second of Raphaël Labbé, founder of ulike.net where you share everything you like And finally a few minutes ...

Silentale is looking to grow it’s engineering team

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Intrigued by Silentale? Can't wait to try Silentale? The best way is to join us. We have just opened two new positions based in Paris. We're looking for passionate software developers that love working on difficult problems and that thrive in a startup environment. Some of our challenges include distributed ...

Bringing the People’s Choice Award back from LeWeb08

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Last week, Nicolas and I spent two very intense days at LeWeb08. The morning of the first day was filled with excitement as we were prepping for the Startup Competition. The planned 7 minute presentation was how we would unveil Silentale for the first time. The very short time given ...

Silentale to participate in LeWeb08 Startup Competition

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

We are pleased to announce that Silentale has been selected to present in front of a great panel of judges at LeWeb08. The conference will be taking place in Paris on December 9 and 10. 30 contestants will be presenting and the top 3 startups will then have the chance ...

ulike.net – new domain, new look and a TV ad

Monday, September 29th, 2008

You may have heard about them, ulike.net has been building a community around your taste, taste for books, movies, colors, brands, everything you can think of. On Friday, during a small event during which a few short films where presented, Raphael and his team introduced their new domain name ulike.net and ...

Why we need an “Early-Adopter Name Reservation System”? [opportunity]

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 ...

Interactive blog, start leaving video comments

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.

Microsoft signs LoI to acquire Xobni [follow-up]

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 ...

Microsoft acquires Xobni, good or bad?

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 ...