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Learn everything you always dreamt about from your sofa!
From school to university, your life was basically focused on learning. During this period, whether it is maths, arts, history or marketing & economy, you were lucky enough to learn something new everyday. Don't you miss it? I personally loved this period and I miss it so much that I started stage improv and photography last year, and boxing this [...]
Gamification of Call Centers. Really??
Today, I am pleased to introduce you to Arcaris a brand new company coming from Chile. Oscar Giraldo, the CEO of the Company, was actually the first person to contact me spontaneously to get a meeting with me. How did he ear about 99startup ? It is a bit funny and is about getting out of "my comfort zone". I went [...]
So, what is Hipster all about?
These past few months, we heard a lot about a new startup, Hipster. First, we though it would be a local Q&A as you could read it on Techcrunch at the beginning of the year http://tcrn.ch/vwq0yu. But, when it unveiled at the beginning of october, we discovered it was an app and website to share geolocalized postcard-like photos with your friends [...]
Create your own marketplace for all your Android apps with BazaarAndroid
During my stay in Silicon Valley, I spent a few days at Plug and Play TechCenter, which is one of the leading incubators of the area. I met with several companies which are part of the International Program Plug and Play TechCenter offers to help foreign companies to launch in the US. I met with Ines Rola, in charge of business [...]
How you will soon be able to watch 3D movies on tablets with no glasses!
Have you ever imagined that you would be able to watch 3D movies on all your iphone, tablets, and TV devices without any glasses ? Nomad3D, a French start-up with a subsidiary in Switzerland, has developed algorithm to watch 3D movies on every Tablets, Smartphones and TV, with no glasses and very few impact on the energy consumption of the device. Basically, [...]
Misc.
Should you launch your startup in the US or in Europe?
Carlos Diaz is a French serial entrepreneur that most recently launched the enterprise social software Blue Kiwi and came to the US to launch it 1 year ago. I had the pleasure to meet with him just 3 days after he launched its new Company Kwarter. Kwarter is a social network focused on american sports, giving the ability to sport fans to [...]
Very first impressions
I have been here for almost one week now and I have to tell that Silicon Valley feels like a radically different world. Ecosystem As soon as you arrive, you are caught in a big torrent of people, ideas and dynamism. There is a very strong ecosystem developed around start-ups that does not seem to exist in Europe. - First, it seems like [...]
99 Eiffel Towers
As you may have noticed, there is an eiffel tower in my logo. There is a reason for that. To make the project funnier, I have decided to offer a small eiffel tower to each of the 99 start-ups I will meet as a wink from my french citizenship. You can count on the photo, there ARE 99 Eiffel Towers. I [...]
5 Things to do before you go to live abroad
These are the final days before the beginning of the adventure! I have decided to write a post to describe the different steps I took to prepare this project, some of you may find it useful if you are planning to leave for a city where you know barely someone whether it is to find a job, to find partners for [...]
I love new technologies but new technologies don’t like me
I don’t know if it is only happening to me, but everytime I’m working on a particularly important document my computer is crashing. Actually, all the computers I had over the years no matter the brands Toshiba X2, IBM, HP, Asus... used to do that. I even considered I could have bad waves computers don’t like. Lately, I have decided [...]













