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 [...]

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.

Word of the Day from VME

Napoleon-etic
Unknown. Search 3.0 panel, Red Herring VME, Cannes, France 3/26/07

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am not talking about sMeet

I had dinner last night with the folks from sMeet and the charismatic CFO really did a number on me. (I know for a CFO, you would not think charismatic would come into the vernacular, but this guy is a mind bender – and you could talk to him all day – he is [...]

Models for new Ventures

Want to know what the best topic was for us yesterday at VME? The New Venture models hosted by Mary Lisbeth D’Amico, correspondant for Red Herring – on the panel, Eran Davidson, Hasso Plattner Ventures, Adam Valkin, Arts Alliance, a Brit from (the CEO to be fair) Cheapflights.com and Morten Lund, Lundkenner.
One [...]

What makes Red Herring VME Work?

Simple. Look at the faces you see greeting you, making the sessions run and generally going out of their way to make attendees feel welcomed and satisfied.
The staff of Red Herring – Pleun, Courtney, Damian and Martijn – all as usual offering up the highest level of customer service and dedication to delivering quality [...]