Archive for 2010
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Meilleurs Voeux 2011 !
December 31, 2010Customarily corny new year’s greeting, as is compulsory for any tech VC to prove he’s “hip” and “gets it”… Watch this only if you have absolutely nothing better to do for 5 minutes… voeux 2011
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Macro vs Micro
December 29, 2010As we close out the previous year and begin a new one, there is a natural tendency to make resolutions and set goals for the year to come. This of course holds true in many walks of life, e.g. enrolling in a gym membership, resolving to improve personal relationships, committing to advance one’s career, etc. [...]
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Dollars over euros
December 8, 2010An article in the Wall Street Journal today, ironically during the LeWeb conference in Paris, reports on the tremendous funding gap between the size of later stage deals signed in Europe compared to those in the U.S., particularly concerning deals exceeding $5 million in investment size. While I’ve written before about the scarcity of venture [...]
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The G2: my new number 1
December 5, 2010About a year ago, Bill Gurley penned an excellent write-up called Android or iPhone ? Wrong Question, which submitted that both Google and Apple and will dominate the smartphone market while injuring innocent bystanders. With the accelerating growth spurt of Android-compatible devices and the increasing propensity of app developers to limit themselves to these two [...]
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A bubble in seed investing ?
November 30, 2010Brad Feld published an article in yesterday’s Huffington Post about the Seed Investing Phenomenon of 2010. In it, he cites anecdotal evidence that suggests that a disproportional majority of seed deals funded in 2010 by angel groups and seed VCs will not succeed in raising subsequent rounds. Brad also references some other professionals, such as [...]
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Radical suggestion to Big Media: You are not the story.
November 15, 2010Readers of my blog know that I rarely shy away from criticizing the French financial press (the reality is that I still read it regularly and often find it relevant and thought-provoking). But to paraphrase Winston Churchill, the only thing I find more infuriating than the French media is… all the other media. Particularly the [...]
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Calling all geek girls
November 10, 2010I’ve written in the past about the dearth of women entrepreneurs in France, and Vinita Gupta’s column yesterday in BusinessWeek zeroes in on the scarcity of women in senior roles within tech companies. Her data centers on the U.S. but many of her observations apply to some European countries as well, others less so. For [...]