December 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
A man died yesterday
A man died yesterday. From an illness there is no cure. This must be a reminder that: - we spend more money in developing new weapons and waging wars than on searching for new drugs to cure diseases that have plagued humankind forever, - we spend more money in creating derivatives markets than on global programs to eradicate easily and cheaply curable diseases, - we spend more money on...
August 2011
2 posts
Strategic Thinking is a Competitive Advantage
I think that the startup ecosystem is definitively taking over the economy in more than a direction. Marc Andreesen’s now famous “software is eating the world” is one of these (although it has a major flaw in the fact that it is based on the assumption that underlying technologies and energy will always be there in unlimited supply to fuel the growth of software). Another...
March 2011
1 post
Social Mathematical Insecurity
I stumbled upon this article in La Tribune about how great and marvelous and fantastic is the French Social Security in reducing its abysmal deficit by cutting costs and increasing efficiency mainly through increasing technology usage.
The journalist (I have no word to describe the person who wrote this piece, except for Propagandist may be) glorifies the Social Security for actually reducing its...
January 2011
1 post
Propaganda and miscalculation
La Tribune today runs a nice story about how much rich the French people are. According to the Ministry of Finance, their assets doubled since 2001 to reach 10 000 billion euros. That is 8 years of revenue or 5 years of National Income. Nice thing is that 61% of this incredible wealth is in real estate. Logically, big brains in Bercy (the ugly place where the French Ministry of...
December 2010
1 post
Que dire à nos enfants?
Une réflexion issue d’une conversation récente avec une personne avec qui je travaille et que je respecte beaucoup:
En France, il n’y a plus de place pour ceux qui veulent créer quelque chose, entre les X/ENA qui règnent sans produire et les RMI qui ne travaillent pas.
C’est une vision réductrice sans doute de la société française mais je crois que les classes moyennes sont...
September 2010
3 posts
Looming Disaster
French (official) public debt is above 1,600 billions euros. In order not to add more insanity in here, I leave aside the unaccounted but very real 900 billions euros of future pensions for civil servants.
Let’s pretend it’s just 1,600 billions euros.
In France, our wondeful tax system applies to a bit less than 50 million independant taxpayers. You do the math and you get a whooping...
“Tous les paquets naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits.”
– Marc Brandsma (@tedesign)
Network Monitoring Tools →
July 2010
5 posts
“Un célèbre buveur, étant à l’article de la mort, pria un de ses amis, qui...”
– Dictionnaire des Calembours (gratuit sur iBook)
Nanotechnologies on a different scale
While the Brits aim for foreclosure of the majority of their nanotech sites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10728357
The French proudly promote the development of their own centers:
http://www.techniques-ingenieur.fr/actualite/informatique-electronique-telecoms-thematique_193/la-france-mise-sur-les-nanotechnologies-article_5955
This would make me scratch my head if I didn’t knew...
The future is hard to predict, applied
Almost a year ago, I favorited a twit from my friend @ourielohayon that had a nice potential for future controversy, the kind of enjoyment I like. Here’s the twit:
OurielOhayon 10 startups i think will be acquired soon: evernote, posterous/tumblr, twitter, animoto, tweetdeck/seesmic, stardoll, etsy, apture. agree?
9:54 AM Aug 11th, 2009 via Seesmic
As you can read, it is...
NetJetSet Tips
By popular demand, a complete list of the tips for the wannabe Net Jet Setter:
#NJStip 12: always put “great”, “super”, “amazing” and “awesome” in ur twit, you’ll only need a few more words to complete it to 140c.
#NJStip 10: always infer that your “friend” Vladimir Putin came to this conference to meet you, not to address...
June 2010
5 posts
“I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at Old Vic”
– Richard Burton
(via @davidblerner)
12 ans d’historique de l’Indicateur Chausson Finance nous on poussés à nous pencher sur l’importance qu’ont pris, en quelques années, les FCPI et les FIP dans l’écosystème du capital risque français.
Les FCPI, fonds commun de placement dans l’innovation, ont été créés en 1997. Les FIP, fonds d’investissement de proximité, sont venus compléter ce dispositif de soutien aux PME depuis 2003. Les FCPI...
Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer une levée de €3,8m pour Hydrelis, auprès de A Plus Finance et de ses actionnaires historiques, Patrick Dupuy et Vincent Schürr. L’opération a été conseillée par Chausson Finance.
Fondée par Thierry Sartorius, Hydrelis est l’inventeur du « disjoncteur d’eau ». Autonome et simple d’utilisation, le disjoncteur d’eau surveille en permanence le débit d’eau de la...
May 2010
3 posts
Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la levée de fonds de 1,8 million d’euros de la société Geolid auprès du fonds d’investissement A Plus Finance. L’opération a été conseillée par Chausson Finance.
Fondée en mai 2008 par Gautier Cassagnau, Mickaël Cabrol et Guillaume de Neuvier, la société développe et distribue une suite complète d’outils permettant d’optimiser la visibilité locale sur Internet des...
April 2010
2 posts
Fairy tales
Here’s the most important graph in the recent report issued by the French COR about our beloved and costly retirement system:
As you can see clearly, there’s been a kind of dip in 2009/2010 and people blame the crisis for that. Fine. It’s more that they’ve done nothing for the last 30 years to prevent this from happening, but it’s OK, let’s put it on the...
Death Trap
…or perfect vicious circle, or clear path to oblivion, whatever you call it there is a certainty about the current debate in France about the exhausted public retirement system and ways for the governement to cure it (ot not). Here it is:
- raising social taxes on active people’s income will increase cost of labor,
- increased cost of labor will deter companies from hiring people and...
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
3 posts
Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer la levée de fonds d’Arturia, d’un montant de 1,5 million d’euros avec OTC Asset Management.
Arturia est le premier éditeur français d’instruments virtuels pour la production de musique. La société édite une suite logicielle d’instruments virtuels associée à un synthétiseur hardware, Origin, proposés aux professionnels de la production de musique et de bandes son.
Ces...
January 2010
70 posts
“The backs? They’re all fake tan and shaved legs.”
– Adam Jones
Douchebag Festival #1
François Fillon, the brilliant prime minister of France, was all over the economical press today with a marvelous announcement: the country’s growth next year will be TWICE the last prediction. You get the message: it will DOUBLE. Great. Celebrate Bonnes Gens! Crisis is over, future is bright, government is powerful.
Alas for this neat PR trick from Matignon (the prime minister’s...
Forget China, focus on your own evil politicians →
Developing countries must acknowledge that they will not go through the US-style petroleum based growth and prosperity phase. Far too late.
“Un jour, tout ce que j’ai fait, se vendra très bien.”
– Charles Baudelaire (lettre à sa mère)
Chinese Math
http://www.lesechos.fr/info/auto/020306944439-la-chine-devient-officiellement-le-premier-marche-automobile-du-monde.htm
In 2009, the Chinese bought 13.5M vehicles (cars and trucks) boosting the market to a shiny +45% increase year-on-year. Experts (not me) think the yearly growth rate will remain in the 5%/10% range for the foreseable future. Let’s say its 10% (we like to be frightened).
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distribuée par Fax, bonne idée RT @Frederic: @Tedesign alors lance une newsletter professionelle payante… it’s so 1990s
Dear Orange, I don’t need you to think for myself. Give me coverage, bandwith and flat rate. I’ll take care of the remaining.
J’ai envie de lancer un blog, mais en même temps, je sais que c’est un combat d’arrière garde et une marque de ringardise. Que faire?
Seems like the big names in French VCland are fading out and a new generation takes the helm (ISAI, Serena, Alven, Seventure/Protard).
Making a lot of noise (aka buzz) helps you more in raising funds than the intrinsic value of your business
Impressed by VMware numbers. No wonder why Cytrix got Xen for $500M.
aaaah RT @slashdot: Star Trek Online Open Beta Starts Today http://bit.ly/6Y5NQ1
you’d better make it work first place ;) RT @rodrigue: I’m implmenting the support process for BonitaSoft with #bos5 ;)
The appstore ecosystem thrives http://bit.ly/5WyeRi this is good news for all startups involved
Great to hear about Sopera, cool SOA Eclipse Framework RT @industrialtsi: Integrating Sopera with Talend for data integration services.
LOPPSI c’est contrôler toutes les 5mn le permis de conduire des automobilistes parce qu’il y en a 2 ou 3 qui roulent sans. totalitaire.