Published on April 5th, 2013 | by Lulu
The lady pitch night 2013 organized by Girls in tech took place yesterday at Orange labs. An event celebrating female entrepreneurs and which made me discover ambitious women with great ideas! 5 finalists pitched their projects in front of an impressive jury : Gilles Babinet (Digital Champion for France), Marie Christine Levet (Jaina Capital), Annina Svensson (Google, ex-Spotify), Olivier Ezratty (Startup Consultant and Digital Media Expert), Marion Moreau (FrenchWeb), Pascal Latouche (Orange) and Samantha Jérusalmy (Elaia Partners, Girls in Tech) 5 countries were represented : Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Portugal. We saw amazing presentations: BoxCryptor (Germany) secures your files in the cloud the easy way 1001 pharmacies (France) helps pharmacies sell on the web Super risparmio (Italy) compares supermarket prices. Coolbrandz (Switzerland) the word of mouth platform.#recommendation Book a street artist (Portugal) Online booking platform for talented street artists. Its founder couldn’t come because of a problem with her plane but she presented her start-up on the ... Read More →
Published on April 2nd, 2013 | by Lulu
Tonight, we will go and see our friends at the meetup Paris RB at Epita. Matt Thompson from Heroku is the special guest. We use Heroku for Simplib so it will be nice to meet Matt. We are very excited to announce Simplib recent launch at this meetup because we talked so much about it with all the rubyists we met there. Thursday morning, the Open Coffee Club welcomes Cap Digital to present Scale up, a new international acceleration program in Silicon Valley. Interesting! Thursday evening from 6pm, I’m very happy to go to the Girls in Tech Paris & Orange Lady Pitch Night 2013. I’ve never been to a Girls in Tech event but I follow them since several months. The lady Pitch Night is a competition for European female-founded startups. The 5 finalists of more than 50 applications from 10 different countries will pitch in front of jury of experts. Can’t ... Read More →
Published on March 29th, 2013 | by Lulu
Simplib est sorti!!! Ça y est les amis, la MVP de Simplib est lancée depuis mercredi!!! MVP?? Mais qu’est ce que c’est? Minimun Viable Product est comme son nom l’indique la version la plus simplifiée d’un produit. En tant que start-up lean, nous nous sommes concentré sur la fonctionnalité la plus simple: Récompenser des sites pour leurs qualités pour les recommander à ses amis Facebook. Simplib est une application Facebook qui fonctionne grâce à un bookmarklet à glisser dans sa barre de navigation sur lequel vous cliquerez dès que vous voulez récompenser d’un badge un site qui vous a satisfait. Vous pouvez ensuite le recommander pour une de ses qualités en le partageant sur Facebook. Nous sommes parti du plus simple pour pouvoir analyser comment se comporte ce produit, récupérer et étudier les données récoltées pour s’adapter au mieux à l’utilisateur. Vous l’aurez compris tout commence maintenant! Comme toujours, nous ... Read More →
Published on March 29th, 2013 | by Lulu
Wednesday was a big day for the Simplib Team: after launching the first public Simplib MVP, we welcomed 6 talented entrepreneurs passionated about music for the second founders dinner. The first founders dinner was a success so we decided to do it in the same place, le Gatsby a restaurant in the 7th arrondissement of Paris where we have a room just for us. Some of our guests, passionated about music, even enjoyed to play the piano! This dinner was very different from the first one. This time we had only stubborn people! The dinner was full of constructive discussions . Everyone talked about their projects, we all got interesting feedback. People didn’t agreed on many things which drive us in a corner. It was fun to see that 2 guests had the same idea, one had been faster than the other! We are very happy to organize this event ... Read More →
Published on March 25th, 2013 | by Lulu
This week we will talk about Cloud, stockholders, consulting, music and innovation! Today at 7pm, the cloud testimonies a 2 hours conference to explain how to innovate using the cloud. Tomorrow at 7 pm the 15 Ninjas speed consulting will take place at Dojoboost. 3 x 4 15 minutes advices sessions to 15 consultants during a networking night. Wednesday, we will have a great time at the founder’s dinner #2 organized by the Simplib team. Thursday from 5pm to 11pm I’ll go to Prix innover et entreprendre at ESCP school to support my friend from Le camping who have founded Znappit... Read More →
Published on March 19th, 2013 | by Lulu
A few months ago we decided to create the Founder’s dinner and we announced it here! Last month the first founder’s dinner took place at le Gatsby, a cool restaurant in the 7th arrondissement. We had a great moment and founders we invited really enjoyed this experience and were already excited about the next episode! We told you all about the Founder’s dinner #1 last month :) This month the Founder’s dinner is dedicated to music! Who doesn’t like music? We have noticed that we know many different people working in this field. Not only startupers but also DJs, label founders. We though it could be nice to mix people sharing the same passion and who have great ideas. Invitation will be sent today for the second edition of the Founder’s dinner the 27th of March in the same restaurant. Do not hesitate to come and register on our Meet-up group, you will ... Read More →
Published on March 18th, 2013 | by Lulu
After enjoying the week end, it’s time to move!! Today at 7pm Start in Paris will present you 5 young start-ups at Le players, a bar rue Montmartre. Wednesday, I’ll be at Google for the Data liberation front, a meeting with Brian Fitzpatrick, the instigator engineer , in 2009,of Data Liberation Front. A Digitalk focus on the datas portability. I’ll tell you more about it after going Thursday the meet up Paris international meet up will try to send you to Chile with Bootstrap your project in Chile with $40k funding ! ”Anne-Sophie Dutat (Co-Founder of fancybox) and Thomas Grandperrin (ex. SmartAgro, Project Manager at Jogabo) will talk about the key success factors of the application process, the benefits, the challenges and some numbers on the Latin American market, as well as best practices. We can’t forget to mention the Q&A afterwards, either. So if you are looking to bootstrap your project with ... Read More →
Published on March 14th, 2013 | by Lulu
Last week, I was studying the replies we got from our survey about the qualities of a good website. I wanted to thank people who had answered it by sharing the results. I started to look for the best infographics tool to make datas beautiful and also to write something here about these useful websites. 1. Picktochart The one I used to make this inforgraphics! It has the best SEO, it was the first i found on google. I didn’t choose it for that of course but because they had a new version that i wanted to try. I don’t like the last version of Picktochart because it looked old and complicated with action buttons everywhere, 3 not necessary steps and ugly colors. But the new version is great! They worked a lot on the UX, now the interface is ergonomic. Much more easy to use. I guess they have listened ... Read More →
