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Best business model? |
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Get 30M pageviews of user generated content, syndicate it and aggregate it in a book, and sell it for $11.95.
Boom!
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What is the best James Bond |
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Over the last 3 months, I have been watching the entire James Bond collection, in chronological order. It’s been hard, it’s been long, but gosh it’s been good !! ;)
This morning, a colleague asked me the decisive question: which one is my preferred James Bond. Tough questio!
So here is a list (chronological order) of the James Bond I loved the most:
Two funny anecdotes about Bond #6, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969):
As a real James Bond geek, I gathered some other stats on James Bond movies.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the Top 5 is held by Dr. No (98%), From Russia With Love (97%), Goldfinger (96%), Casion Royale (94%) and Thunderball (90%). 4 out of the 5 are Sean Connery movies.
On IMDB, the highest score goes to Casino Royale (8/10), followed by Goldfinger (7.90/10), From Russia With Love (7.5/10), Dr. No (7.3/10) and The Spy Who Loved Me (7.1/10). Sean Connery is in 3 out of the 5, Roger Moore is in the 5th one.
Click here to see the whole list in PDF: James Bond movies - Reviews on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes
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-20°C in New York! Global warming they say… |
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I woke up to this this morning:
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Blackberry Curve, don’t cry anymore: I am back! |
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I had the chance to use the Google phone G1 for a week, kind of crash-testing it to make up my mind.
The HTC is a really cool phone, but today, a week later, I’m happy to get back to my Blackberry Curve. However, I am not sure whether it’s because I am disappointed with the G1 or if it’s just because the Curve is unsurpassed …
It’s now been 24 hours that the Curve is back in my pocket, and no I don’t miss the G1!
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My life without Facebook and Google? |
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I commented yesterday on a TechCrunch France post: Everything you always wanted to know about Google… (here in French). My point was basically, as it’s been the subject here and there over the last months, that Google is everywhere and all over my life online. Even offline actually. Allen Stern from CenterNetworks sums it quite well here.
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Execution, execution |
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Two years ago, I met for the first time in my life a successful web entrepreneur: Fabrice Grinda. I was working with a few friends on my first startup project, SubMate, a site allowing subway, bus and train commuters to discover the people that share their commutes.
I did all the wrong things I could do, but you got a start somewhere! With Fabrice, it was a first meeting and we didn’t know each other, we presented a business plan that no one with experience had reviewed, and we tried to convince him to invest in our project. We didn’t know him before, and had no recommendation. Boom. Shameless presumptuous first time entrepreneur. Fabrice was kind enough to stay with us until we were done though ;-)
As the end of that meeting, Fabrice asked us how far we were in the development of SubMate. I replied in a flash, full of a naive and inexperienced over-confidence, that the development was outsourced in India for the v1 and would ship within 4 weeks.
It never shipped. Fabrice was the first to tell us that an idea is worthless without its execution, which is worth everything.
A bit later that year, I met with Darren Herman, another successful New York entrepreneur. Darren told me the same thing. Darren also told me that when talking about production time-lines, you should hope for 1 (whatever unit of time), expect 2 and plan for 3. If it takes less, you’re lucky.
Yesterday, Venture Hacks twittered that “The ‘Execution Gap’ is the space between the astronomical opportunities before us and our ability to grasp them”. It reminded me of that first meeting two years ago. Darren and Fabrice were right. I learnt it the hard way.
Fabrice sums it up in that post: Fund Raising 101.
For CabEasy.com, I took a complete different route than for SubMate. A route that actually makes sense. It allowed me, 2 months after the initial idea, to get a product out the door, get some initial reviews and feedbacks, get some users, and lots of contacts. Now that it’s there in the wild, there is visibility on its improvements, and the execution risk is taken care of. But especially, I have something to sell.
On to the next steps: finding customers, paying or potential, and then get some funding to scale the service!
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The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup |
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An interesting and funny article from GigaOM that dates from April, but I just re-read it: The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup.
According to Stacey, the five stages are …
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A great kickoff for CabEasy.com! |
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CabEasy was launched just over a week ago (in its first infant version). Since then, thanks to a few blog posts, I have received tons of feedback, positive overall, and very encouraging !
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In a startup world |
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I love the crunchvision map that Mapeed, a french startup, created using the Crunchbase API. There have been other maps of startups done in the past, but this comes from a list of more than 11,000 companies, so it gets some authority ;)
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