Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

another hint: dinner time

 

       
      
      

   

taking one day off with my family

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Presentation at Carrefour des Possibles

I forgot to mention that my presentation at the recent Carrefour des Possible event in Paris was filmed by someone (Mr A. :) and published here using another service on the market (I like Charles' comment on that page :). Hey, you can't present in private it seems anymore...

I have another footage of that presentation, filmed by Jacques Froissant who was sitting next to me; I should probably publish it too then...

And hush... I hear I shall be talking next week here (10:35), 2 weeks after here (17:00), and the following week here. Expect the videos to show up real quick :)

Criteo raises 3m€ series A round

Criteo is a white-label recommendation engine: a bit what Amazon does when they recommend to you a book that someone else read and that you might like, but they apply it to anything. It was started last year by seasoned entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, former CEO of K-Mobile, sold to AG Interactive.

As usual, this blog had the scoop in video a couple of weeks ago, but we are only releasing it today after it's public everywhere, including on the alarm:clock.

By the way, great Pic Saint-Loup wine at lunch :)

am I beating Techcrunch today with news ?

Funny that this site has not hit techcrunch.com yet…:

from the guys who founded amen.fr, the guys behind the picture marketplace Fotolia.fr…

No comment of mine yet on the service as I registered in alpha last week, but still had no time to play with it. The service opened yesterday.

linux distro Fedora Core 5 is out

Somehow I missed the release of Fedora Core 5, but just got the RedHat magazine in my inbox. Stuff to play with over the upcoming weekend maybe.

netvibes clone in China

Indeed, this site looks exactly like netvibes, same GUI, same design, same look and feel, same features (although I don’t read Chinese, I could navigate easily). Yuck! no copyright, what can be done? Tariq ? Did they just grab all of your javascript code ?

The culprit lives on http://www.dodoor.cn/.

(via Vince)

State of the BLogosphere: David Sifry posts an update for April 2006

You’ll find it everywhere; but if you haven’t, this is an interesting study that serves as a proxy for user generated content.

 

 

big tech M&A last week involving Europeans

You’ve read it elsewhere already of course, but I just wanted to point out that after:

• Photoways buying up Photobox
• Redhat swallows JBoss for $350m + $70m in earn-out with about 40% in cash (you have to watch my video interview of the CEO, Marc Fleury a couple of months ago, talking about plumbing !)
• DSG buys up 75% of french tech retailer Fotovista (pixmania.com) for 266m euros (175ME for the LBO fund, and 36ME for the founding brothers) (that’s a 0,7x forward sales AND 50x forward 2006 EBIT ! => EBIT/sales is only 1.5% !)
• Comverse buys Netcentrex for about $164m in cash, plus a $16m in earn-out.

And all these deals this week involve either European companies, or companies founded by Europeans. Neat.

Rodrigo Show: Meet Philippe Pinault, founder & CEO Blogspirit

This chap has an interesting approch to blogging: B2B… ie he sells his blogging platform to a number of large accounts, and also to the B2C crowd where he competes against very large players such as SixApart and Blogger, although he launched his company earlier than them. I understand he'll be launching a new version and new approach to customers in early may.

Check his site: Blogspirit. His other brand is Haut et Fort. I met him at a recent Clavier-Goldberg-Sepulveda entrepreneur dinner. Make sure you register as well