Do You know how many emails I received over the past 3 days from folks asking me to do a top 10 list of men at Venture Market Europe? A lot and actually we thought about it here at ink and thought, if we could do one for IPTV, then why not VME? And would [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 29, 2007
Designer phones are making me sad
Does the world really need a Dolce & Gabbana Handset?
March 28, 2007
More on the brain of Philipp Bouteiller
Right. So here we are again back at my new favorite topic – Philipp Bouteiller of sMeet (which I am not talking about) So, there are not many men out there who can actually keep me interested for that long in terms of their ability to communicate in a charmingly yet extraordinarily briliant manner [...]
March 28, 2007
A tale of two cities
This morning I left Cannes for Brussels to attend Warner Brothers 25th Anniversary symposium. The theme was Focus on the Future.
Ha! Now I say this because after just leaving Red Herring’s VME in Cannes where the air is thick with innovation and enthusiasm for the future and moved to this event where the [...]
March 27, 2007
Dinner with tech titans
Now, what do you get when you combine VC and entrepreneural titans at dinner for 4 hours? I bet you can’t guess?
Well last night I had the great pleasure to be seated with about 14 of them for dinner in Cannes. A mix of seriel entrepreneurs, maverick investors and classic VCs – all at one [...]
March 27, 2007
Virtual Operating System
Dutch company GravityZoo has created the worlds first Virtual Operating System (VOS). It’s true. Remember when everyone thought Linux would never work? (go WAY back on that one)
Check them out – call them. Its going to change everything.
March 27, 2007
Word of the Day from VME
Napoleon-etic
Unknown. Search 3.0 panel, Red Herring VME, Cannes, France 3/26/07
March 27, 2007
Did I say I wasn’t talking about sMeet?
Two words: reality communications.
My friend and most excellent journalist Claire (reporter for Mergermarket) and I just had a demo by the pragmatic co-ceo (Marc Fleischmann) and ever charming CFO (also COO) Dr. Philipp Bouteiller (former founder of IGA) – an in-game advertising company) on what sMeet is all about.
We are still [...]
March 27, 2007
Clean Tech
Today, Joel Dreyfus, the seasoned editor in chief of Red Herring, moderated a panel on Clean Tech. It was great. It was great because I think that there is still a question out there about what clean tech is and what is actually going on in the sector.
Here is my opinion of the summary of [...]
March 27, 2007
Kindler, Gentler VC
I am sitting in the Venture Capital Europe panel hosted by Alex Vieux and I just can’t get enough of George Coelho from Benchmark Capital. How can someone be this balanced and successful in the VC world?
I hear him talking about the differences between Silicon Valley and Europe and he summed it up in a [...]
