Startup movies #3: We love entrepreneurs (France)
One movie at a time, I think we’ll be able to make a virtual world tour of startup ecosystems! We Love Entrepreneurs is about the French tech ecosystem in 2015, its journey so far, the new generation of entrepreneurs, and, overall, a lot of good signs and stories that even in a very centralized, big […]
A visit of the Zappos Pop-up Shop in Las Vegas
During our visit of the CES in Las Vegas, we visited the Zappos Pop-up Shop, often dubbed the « shop of the future ». It’s more of a prototype, which, having opened in November 2014, should close pretty soon this January 2015 to analyze its own data and see how to move forward. Visiting is was definitely […]
Zappos corporate culture: innovating for employees, clients, and the ecosystem
We’ve extensively described what Zappos was doing with its « Downtown Project » in Las Vegas, pouring some $350m to revitalize a stranded part of the city. In this second episode, we’ll wrap-up our thoughts on Zappos corporate culture as we have been visiting its headquarters, ironically located since 2013 in the former town hall of Las […]
Revitalizing Las Vegas: a guided tour of the Downtown Project by Zappos
Las Vegas may be famous for its casinos, attracting 40 million tourists each year, and the Consumer Electronic Show (170k attendees in 2015), but parts of it are not so shiny. The city has long been too dependent on tourism and gambling, two industries very sensitive to economic fluctuations. The workers are largely low-skilled, and […]
Thoughts from Las Vegas: the FrenchTech reach maturity
When my aunt did some research on our family tree a few years ago, we found only armymen from the early 1800s with a « grognard » serving Napoleon, up to my grandfather and my father who both served in the French army, although in different contexts. I’m not wearing the uniform myself, but I’ve been educated […]
Interviewing Mitch Altman: "Hackerspaces are about love"
Last year, as we did some research on the places of innovation for a client, we interviewed Mitch Altman, dubbed the « father of the hackerpaces ». The topic was to know how large companies could find an inspiration from the hackerspace movement. Mitch founded Noisebridge, one of the first hackerspaces in the US in 2008, and […]
Meet the 24 FrenchPitch startups who pitched at CES in Las Vegas
Here’s a quick wrap-up of several French (and non-French) startups who pitched at the FrenchPitch event, organized by EPC Digital, and part of the broader #FrenchTech umbrella. It’s like the appetizer of a longer program which will take us in a tour of the Downtown Project, an initiative powered by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and […]
Bangalore startup scene
[et_pb_section admin_label= »section »][et_pb_row admin_label= »row »][et_pb_column type= »4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label= »Text »] « Incredible India » is actually the country with the 3rd largest number of startups in the world after the US and the UK, with some 3,100 ventures as of late 2014. Bangalore, often dubbed the Silicon Valley of India, is the technology heart of this gigantic, 1.2bn population and amazingly diverse […]
Bangladesh startup scene
[et_pb_section admin_label= »section »][et_pb_row admin_label= »row »][et_pb_column type= »4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label= »Text »] Bangladesh is your typical frontier market: largely unexplored, fast-growing (6% growth), young (60% of the population below 30), and large rural population (72% of their 160 millions). The infrastructure is not yet there too, with only 50 million mobile subscribers and a tiny 10 million people having an access to […]
Nigeria startup scene
Nigeria is dubbed « Africa’s India » for its demographic stats. If today the population if « only » 173 million, making it the largest country in Africa, tomorrow, it should reach half a billion (2050) and likely a billion by the turn of next century. That is, if enough job opportunities keep the country united, which is all […]
