'momac' Tag

• Mobile Entertainment Awards 2013 Finalists

  June 15, 2013

  It’s of course important to take award competitions with a grain of salt. Still, I am proud to be an investor in finalists in two different categories of the 2013 Mobile Entertainment Awards. Hats off to the teams at both BoosterMedia and Momac !  I am honored to be an innocent bystander of your success. […]

  posted in venture capital by mark bivens

• The HTML5 guru speaks: now carrier grade

  February 1, 2013

  CTO of Momac Alex Rutgers crafted a whitepaper years before HTML5 took the mobile world by storm on the technology’s compelling potential. It was thus with great enthusiasm that I learned that Alex found time to produce a sequel to his original paper laying out his vision for HTML5’s future evolution. One interesting conclusion is […]

  posted in technology by mark bivens

• France’s internet pure players

  September 10, 2010

  Le Journal du Net today presents a concise summary of the performance of France’s internet pure players, segmented by domain and business model. For the internet portals, the general diagnosis is negative, largely due to the decline in online ad spending and the ensuing downward pressure on CPM’s during the economic crisis.  AOL France closed […]

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• Hands-on investing

  January 31, 2010

  Almost every VC in France will claim to be a hands-on investor if you ask what differentiates them. Often even the English expression “hands-on” is used in a French sentence, i.e. “Notre philosophie d’investissement est d’être très ‘hands-on’ avec nos sociétés en portefeuille.” Reminds me of the town near Lake Wobegon where all the children […]

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