Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

RSS: Meet Pierre-Yves Lautrou, L'express news magazine

Interesting views on the upcoming presidential election in 2007 in France !

Franck Sebag

 

-- Sent from my Nokia N70 phone using vpod.tv mobile :)

get yourself a new IM client for your phone: Crickee

Just installed it on my N90. Will let you know how it goes.

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RSS: Meet Thierry Chevalier, Martech & Finance [French]

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This man is part of a duo with Emmanuel Libaudière, who has been organising Tech Entrepreneurship & VC conferences for the past 6–7 years. His company is called Martech & Finance, and organises among other things, the Capital-IT conference.

A new format of the conference is coming up this year. Interesting stuff. Give it a try.

3GSM: fashion model Anina was presenting Flash lite on the Adobe booth

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Looking for applications to use with my GPS device

I recently got the Nokia LD-1W Wireless (Bluetooth) GPS device. It looks nice, is recognized by all my laptops on the bluetooth stack, but… I have no software to use it

I know that wayfinder is maybe the appropriate map / GPS application for my Series 60 phones, but I find the $99 price tag a bit harsh for something I don’t really need. And I have no application for the PC.

So anyone has some good advice on what I could use this GPS device with (please make sure it works too !). Aside from maps (yes I’d like an app), from wi-dfi war-driving (somehow Netstumbler doesn’t recognize it), I’d like other uses such as time / place stamping pictures / videos, a Plazes-like app, etc.

Thanks.

Do you have what it takes ?

Do you have what it takes ?, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

Are you by any chance watching the Olympics ?

Pierre de Coubertin who invented the modern Games once said (or is supposed to have said), that the important part is not to win, but to participate.

Although I could fall in love with that idea, I totally disagree by now. The only thing that matters is to win.

Jack Welch used the concept as the title of his last book, and he is so right: "winning".

If you are not watching the Games this last week, you should. I very very seldom see so much determination in competing on the GLOBAL scene, individually, just to be the BEST.

Sports teach us a lot about entrepreneurship and business, although we Europeans might not grab the whole importance and relevance : team work in preparation, discipline, concentration, focus, ambition, execution.

My question of the day hence is : as an entrepreneur, do you have what it takes to be the world's #1 in your field ?

just got my SIM card back: I now have a phone again

Forget the temporary spanish number I had published earlier on on this blog. I just got back a SIM card for my French mobile number. It feels really weird to running around town with no easy for people to reach you, and no easy way to call anyone.

In the meantime, the thief in Spain has given me a nice over 150 euros bill for a single day. Indeed he was using my French hence using roaming tarifs in Spain. Let’s hope my operator, Coriolis Telecom, will cancel that bill, as there IS NO WAY to call their 0800 numbers from abroad. I tried many times. I was just given today their international number for abroad, but it was nowhere to be found on their site. So I had to try to find a friend in France who would call in for me (thanks Lim!). Crazy customer experience.

In addition their call center hours are just ridiculous…offices / call center closes around 5pm.

Last week, when I called them in Paris, I was told I should have gone to the Spanish police offices and reported my phone loss. Right… who’s going to go to a foreign police office in a foreign language to report a stolen phone ? And then I would have to pay for an official translator to get the document in French, and *maybe* get something done with that document ?

Oh, and they also got my keys, so I have no keys to my house. Luckily I have wifi at home, so I used it for about 45 minutes sitting at my doorstep last night, until my wife came home… I’m having a copy done at some point today. I think I have a key loss/theft insurance with one of my credit cards. I’ll let you know in an update the funny stuff my bank will tell me when I try to use the insurance: I’m sure they’ll ask for an official document with the diameter of the earth in picometers or something….

RSS & Emailvision IPO Roadshow: Meet Antoine LECA, Alternext (Paris Stock Exchange)

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I still have a few videos from Emailvision's IPO roadshow. This is the last one in the series, the day after the company went public. Here Antoine tells us how the Alternext compartment works, the criteria to be listed, and why you should try to get listed on Alternext.

3GSM: they were all there

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I wanted to get this video out on the web as quickly as possible after the end of 3GSM. In this 15 min sequence, you'll see short 30 sec to 1 min interviews with about a dozen people who were kind enough to speak to me in front of the camera.
I edited a bit the order of the people, in order to make your experience more fun. I still have lots of footage, and those chats that lasted more than 1 minute will make their way into another compilation at some point.

Most people here answer 1 or 2 very simple questions : why are they here at 3GSM, and what has caught their eye so far. It's a good mix of entrepreneurs, VCs, corporate people, investment bankers and consultants. I hope you like it.

Now after almost 20 posts this weekend, I'm going to go easy the rest of the week as I really have a hard one coming up.