When what Looks like a Bad Idea is a Good Idea?
(B) I really enjoyed this video from Chris Dixon venture partner at Andreessen Horowitz at Y Combinator‘s Start-up School. Mr. Dixon rightly articulates the goal of a venture investor which is […]
Agroecology Practices for Feeding the World!
(E) Félix Noblia, a farmer in South France, is testing many alternative agricultural practices: enhancing the soil, raising cows on pasture or combining crops, valued soils, agriculture without synthetic pesticides […]
Change is Coming, Whether You Like it or Not!
(E) We need a billion of climate change activists like Greta Thunberg. We need their courage, their wisdom, and their determination. Our future depends on them. Please watch carefully Greta’s […]
Leaving no Plastic to Landfills and to the Ocean
(E) You use plastic first thing in the morning when you grab your toothbrush, you probably have your lunch in a plastic container, and you drink water from your plastic […]
General Magic and the Magic Cap
(E) After Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics, and before Netscape and Google, one of the most innovative start-ups close to downtown Mountain View in the early 90s was General Magic! […]
Entrepreneurship: Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2018
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: The […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2017
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The top […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2017
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: The top 7 […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2016
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2016
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The top […]
2016 SXSW Start-Up Village
(B) As it is the case every year, SXSW, while being a music, film, and entertainment event, is also showcasing technology and media start-ups in its start-up village. Techcrunch has […]
Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day
(B) Even if you are not planning a new venture in the soon future or you are not planning to acquire a new venture in the soon future, reading and […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2015
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2015 Demo Day but for the first time, the event was over two days. […]
2015 SXSW Accelerator Finalists
(B) This year, I did not notice a big crowd from Silicon Valley going to SXSW in Austin. SXSW is mostly about music, film, and entertainment. But with the evolution of computing […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2014
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2014 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: YC Demo Day Session 1, Session […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2014
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2014 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, […]
Y Combinator Female Founders Conference
(B) Y Combinator had a very successful Female Founders Conference at the Computer Museum earlier this month. Highlights of the conference as well as all the videos are now online and on the Y Combinator YouTube Channel. […]
StartX Start-Ups from Fall 2013 Class
(B) Yesterday StartX, Stanford’s non-profit organization which aims to accelerate the development of entrepreneurship at Stanford, had its demo day for its Fall 2013 Class. Always interesting to learn what the […]
Y Combinator Summer 13 Demo Day
(B) Yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 13 Demo Day. TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, that introduced […]
The African Family
(B) “AFRICA IS A PARADOX. It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, and metals, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products…(but) any […]
Meet the Latest Wave of Mobile App Entrepreneurs
(T) A few inspiring videos from the latest wave of mobile app entrepreneurs. Four well-known apps. Four different stories…Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger “from Stanford to Start-up”, Pulse […]
Start-Ups at Stanford BASES 150K Challenge
(B) I went yesterday to Stanford University’s BASES (Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students) for their 150k Challenge. And, I had a blast! One of my favorite moments was when I met […]
Y Combinator W13 Demo Day
(B) Y Combinator had this week on Tuesday at the Computer History Museum, its long day event of demo presentations from its incubated Winter 2013 class. 47 start-ups presented this year compared […]
Start-Up Village at South By Southwest 2013
(B) Every year, I am noticing a bigger crowd from Silicon Valley going to SXSW in Austin. Besides Le Web in December in Paris, this is probably becoming one of the most “must see” […]
Innovation Sandbox at RSA 2013
(B) For the last few years, the RSA Security Conference holds on Monday before the security conference starts, the Innovation Sandbox which showcases a number of emerging security technologies and start-ups. Last […]
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