Description: Tariq Krim is one of the iconic Web entrepreneurs. Born in Paris in October 25, 1972. He is the founder of Netvibes and currently the founder and CEO of Jolicloud. As google, skype or Myspace, Netvibes is considered one of the most successfull web entreprises.
mercredi 13 juillet 2011
samedi 9 juillet 2011
Success story 3 : VDM a French Web Site Celebrates Life's Daily Indignities
"My boss came into the office and asked me, 'What are you working on?' I replied, 'My departure.' He'd forgotten I had just been laid off."
That counts as a "Vie de merde," or "A crappy life," according to some 70,000 readers of a French Web site of that name. The site has become a phenomenon in France by presenting a stream of tales of everyday humiliation.
Last year, "Vie de merde" was the ninth-most-searched-for service on Google's French search engine. It receives a thousand or so new stories a day, from which the three young men who run it pick a dozen or so to post. They make their living from ads on the site.
The founder, 20-year-old Maxime Valette, grew up watching subtitled broadcasts of "Seinfeld." A couple of years ago, he started posting his own stories online about the frustrations of modern life. His tech gadgets always had problems. The mailman didn't bother to ring the doorbell when he came to deliver a parcel, but instead just left a note. "At first they weren't funny," he says. "They were sad."
Mr. Valette then opened the site to outside contributions, and the stories got funnier.
Didier Guedj, 49, one of the core collaborators on the site, says one criterion for a successful story is that it must in some way be pathétique -- touching. "It's more like: 'One person's misfortunes reassure another,'" says Mr. Guedj.
http://www.viedemerde.fr/
"The Wall Street Journal"
That counts as a "Vie de merde," or "A crappy life," according to some 70,000 readers of a French Web site of that name. The site has become a phenomenon in France by presenting a stream of tales of everyday humiliation.
Last year, "Vie de merde" was the ninth-most-searched-for service on Google's French search engine. It receives a thousand or so new stories a day, from which the three young men who run it pick a dozen or so to post. They make their living from ads on the site.
The founder, 20-year-old Maxime Valette, grew up watching subtitled broadcasts of "Seinfeld." A couple of years ago, he started posting his own stories online about the frustrations of modern life. His tech gadgets always had problems. The mailman didn't bother to ring the doorbell when he came to deliver a parcel, but instead just left a note. "At first they weren't funny," he says. "They were sad."
Mr. Valette then opened the site to outside contributions, and the stories got funnier.
Didier Guedj, 49, one of the core collaborators on the site, says one criterion for a successful story is that it must in some way be pathétique -- touching. "It's more like: 'One person's misfortunes reassure another,'" says Mr. Guedj.
http://www.viedemerde.fr/
"The Wall Street Journal"
samedi 4 juin 2011
Street Marketing
Description: Street marketing is a term used to refer to certain marketing techniques used to promote products and/or services in an unconventional way in public places. I tried to put on this video the best examples of street marketing I've found. I hope you will enjoy it.
mardi 17 mai 2011
Make Meaning in Your Company
Description: Guy Kawasaki, founder and Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, believes that those companies who set out to make a positive change in the world are the companies that will ultimately be the most successful. He gives examples of the best way to make meaning: increase quality of life, right a wrong, and prevent the end of something good
lundi 11 avril 2011
5 Quotes to Fuel the Entrepreneurial Flames (2)
"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
- Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Enterprises
"I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work"
- Thomas Edison, one of America's greatest inventors
"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent."
- Thomas Edison
"Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning."
- Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works"
- Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple
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