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15 Jun, 2010

Europe vs. Silicon Valley in nuggets

Posted by: Francesco In: Startupper's life

The French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, which moved some years ago in Silicon Valley, recently expressed some thoughts on why Silicon Valley “kicks Europe’s butt”. Why Silicon Valley kicks Europe's butt View more presentations from Loic Le Meur.

29 Jun, 2009

Things a VC (and Startupper) will never say

Posted by: Francesco In: Startupper's life

Some days ago these funny presentations appeared on TechCrunch and I have to say this jokes are not so far from reality. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll certainly enjoy this take on VCs: VC Non Admissions View more presentations from vcobserver. Then in all fairness you’ll have to admit that entrepreneurs have their flaws too, [...]

I’m not happy to see all these reactions to Le Web, in particular to the behavior of Micheal Arrington at the conference, where basically he said the Europeans are lazy, provoking the reaction of the whole European entrepreneurs community as well as the one of LeWeb’s organizer, Loic Le Meur. Live video by Ustream I [...]

12 Dec, 2008

LeWeb ’08 Wrap Up

Posted by: Francesco In: Internet & Web 2.0

My days in Paris are over and it’s time to wrap up this year’s LeWeb conference. I have to say that, for me, this year conference hasn’t been as inspiring as the last one, where a series of speeches and presentations truly opened up my mind showing me new ways of looking at things. This [...]

04 Dec, 2008

La ville lumière is hosting LeWeb ’08

Posted by: Francesco In: Travels

In a few days I’ll be in Paris, attending LeWeb as I did last year, a conference that inspired me a lot and made me meet a lot of very interesting people. Conferences are all about meeting people. You don’t go there to listen to the speeches when you can listen to them comfy on [...]

01 Sep, 2008

The Untouchables: a startupper must see

Posted by: Francesco In: Movies|Startupper's life

The Untouchables is one of my favorite movies. It’s a movie about courage, it’s a reminder of the value of friendship, it’s an advice on how important a team is: it’s a movie about crossing borders. I recently watched this movie for the xx time and I realized how many similarities there are between the [...]


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