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F**k you all Apple-hipsters: today, I bought a PC 20 Jul 2011 | 08:08 pm
"Hello all, my name is Laurent. Today, I bought a PC." Yesterday, two guys stole my backpack after the last Start In Paris of the season. My laptop, my iPad and my headphone were in it. Also some per...
Why you shouldn't start a startup 17 Jun 2011 | 11:41 pm
My new Foursquare app: I gave a talk last week at HEC about why you shouldn't start a startup, and some supposedly good ideas if you still do. Here are the slides I used, feel free to give some fee....
Definite (non-)tourist guide to New York City 8 Feb 2011 | 10:37 pm
Note: I wrote this post 2 years ago, while living in New York. Lately, friends have asked tips about New York, so I figured I should just repost this. If some things have changed since (closed places,...
In search of the perfect viral social app 11 Jan 2011 | 06:13 am
Lately, I've been putting together a list of things that make social apps viral, mainly looking at the startups that inspire me most in that area (social). So this is loosely gathered from looking at ...
Bits and pieces of Lebanon and Syria 11 Jan 2011 | 05:30 am
All cities have history, except Damascus, from which the history began. Old Syrian saying. For Xmas, we spent a short week in Lebanon and Syria. With my girlfriend and my father, we flew to Beirut a...
I would have loved to be there... 25 Oct 2010 | 08:32 pm
On Saturday night, my boys were in town and we did what we do one or two times a year: we roam to the kitsch-est club in Paris where they only play french, brit and american 80's hits. The decor h...
Wanna be a partner of the new SubMate launch? 19 Oct 2010 | 03:14 am
We have some cool experiment at SubMate, check it out: A few weeks from now, we'll be releasing the new, improved version of SubMate. The real vision, the real v1. We would like to share the love wit...
Monday random ramblings 5 Oct 2010 | 01:41 am
Facebook has 500M+ members. Foursquare has 3M, i.e. 0.6%. My lil' sister, 18 years old, did 6 checkins this week end alone. She never heard of Foursquare before (she doesn't really listen when I talk!...
Quand j'étais petit... 1 Oct 2010 | 10:00 pm
Note: sorry for the exceptional French, this won't happen again I swear ! Préambule: Guilhem Bertholet a proposé il y a une semaine de faire un post croisé sur le thème : "mon tout premier business"....
Colette Ballou's conference tips for dummies (and goldfish memory types...) 30 Sep 2010 | 08:03 pm
Yesterday evening at TechCrunch Disrupt in SF, Colette Ballou (the cool and chic gal that hangs out with the geeks that try to change the world, and also the owner of Ballou PR), suddenly was on fire ...
