samedi 16 juillet 2011

Wall of obstacles to success

As an entrepreneur you will probably face a lot of obstacles, I think the wall below is a good representation of those obstacles, if you want to break this wall you have to be patient and believe in your idea.

mercredi 13 juillet 2011

Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days

Matt Cutts is an engineer at Google, where he fights linkspam and helps webmasters understand how search works.

Description: Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.

Success story 4 : Tariq Krim the founder of Netvibes

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.



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"

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.



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