LeWeb wrapped up in Paris a few days ago and turned out to be a star-studded event with some great discussions and panels covering a variety of issues. The theme was supposively “real time” but in reality the topics were all over the place, ranging from: mobile apps to music to funding to the european [...]
I had a chance to stop by Innovate! Europe in Zaragoza yesterday for the presentations of the top 10 Master Class Finalists. Lots of solid projects presented with varying focus… everything from web-based “passion” games to enterprise email and collaboration solutions.
Congratulations to all of the participants, in particular, NomaDesk who was recognized as the 2009 [...]
Europe’s top 11 10 internet startups have been announced for the 2009 Startup 2.0 event. The finalists will present their projects on Friday April 24 in Bilbao, as part of the Nonick conference. The line-up looks something like this:
CampusMovil, a home desktop
Colnect, a collectors community
Genoom, a family tree network
Gli Affidabili , a yelp-like services [...]
Jason Fried of 37 Signals presented a great talk at the Web 2.0 Expo today entitled “10 Things We’ve Learned at 37 Signals”. Inspiring stuff if you’re a small company, but a lot of it probably is not applicable to medium-larger size organizations, especially the notion of “work less”. Although, I dig the enthusiasm and [...]
I popped over to ifest 2008 the other day and sat in on a few interesting talks regarding business and innovation and the entrepreneurial scene in Europe. Both Herve Lebret and Nick Leon touched on the theme of innovation within societies and contrasted the U.S. (primarily Silicon Valley and Boston) with Europe, and tried to [...]
Yesterday I attended the Mobile 2.0 event and got a concentrated dose of what’s happening in the mobile world here in Europe. Lots of great companies presented and there were some excellent panel discussions (mobile social media, VC perspectives, operator perspectives and open business models). The big take aways for me were:
1) We [...]
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