Bangladesh startup ecosystem in 2015: from branding to capacity building
The Bangladesh startup ecosystem is still in its infancy, and its birth could well be the Startup Dhaka video documentary, which spans the top players of the local scene with questions ranging from the funding capability to the country’s strengths and weaknesses. While attending Innovation Extreme a few weeks ago, we discussed with Mustafizur Khan, […]
Shajgoj, a online community platform for Bangladeshi woman, in Bengali language
While attending and speaking at Innovation Xtreme in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we’ve met Shajgoj co-founder Milky Mahmud. In a nutshell, Shajgoj is an online community platform for women, with the particularity to be in Bengali language exclusively. Addressing women in a 250 million population Bengali speaking market In the early 2013, while researching about startups, […]
CES 2015 Report: Internet of Things, FrenchTech, and Zappos rules
The CES 2015 in Las Vegas broke all records with 170,000 attendees, so here’s our CES 2015 Report, from a dual perspective of a French entrepreneur and, as my partner says, « escort boy of corporates into the startup world ». Consumer electronic show (ces) 2015 report – Wearables, robots, smart home, and zappos ecosystem in las […]
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 […]
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 […]
A glance at startup acquisitions in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia as the next growth area for tech startups The Southeast Asian (SEA) area is and has always been an interesting area of growth with its wide diverse range of countries and markets. As startups, we are always looking for our next exit. One interesting quantifiable area of exits is startup acquisitions in Southeast […]
The best of Brazilian startups at Futurecom competition
The 2014 edition of Latin America’s biggest ICT exhibition, Futurecom, took place in São Paulo in Brazil. As such, it was the occasion for all the big players involved in the country’s telecom market, such as Ericsson, Dell, HP, Qualcomm, Telefonica, Huawei or Algar Telecom, to meet, present their new products, talk about the evolutions […]
Innovation Xtreme: Let’s go visit Bangladesh’s nascent startup ecosystem
A friend of mine told me, a few months ago, to watch Startup Dhaka, a documentary freely available on Youtube presenting the tech scene of Bangladesh’s capital city. Just take a look at the video, and you know why I’m extremely excited to go there next week to attend Innovation Xtreme, their main tech festival, […]
[FutureCom Brazil] How to boost an emerging digital economy? Aim at SMEs!
From São Paulo, Futurecom was the occasion for David Dean, senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, to present a report dealing with the factors accelerating or decelerating the digital economy. Intitulated “Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy”, it analyzes how countries can benefit from identifying obstacles to digital driven growth, with special emphasis […]
A journey into the Singapore startup ecosystem with Florian Cornu
For the Coursera MOOC I’m following on « Beyond Silicon Valley », I had to interview a local entrepreneur to better understand the concept of a startup ecosystem. Living and working in Singapore for two years now, I chose to interview Florian Cornu, whose experience started with corporate innovation finance industry beforehand in London for AXA. He then came to […]
