As many of you know, I’m a huge startup lover and I also love academia. That’s why, the Startup Genome project has me amazed! Someone finally started tackling an analyzing why startups fail and how to fix it (we are working on our side of that equation at Press42). Some…

Yesterday I attended the LeWeb Startup Competition Day 1, today we finished with all the startup pitches. I have to say I was surprise by a couple of startups, but all in all, I underline what I said yesterday, the quality was so-so. Most of the startups don’t seem to solve…

First of all, welcome to Press42, my new project. So, many of you wonder what’s Press42 about. For me, it’s been an evolution of what I’ve already been doing in the startup value chain. When I started doing startups 4 years ago, one of the things I saw after a while was that there was a huge gap between…

Among the many startup related things this year, the StartupBus is one that’s really cool. A week ago I wrote about this program which I saw the first time during SXSW this year. The bus arrived 2 days ago and since then their buspreneurs have been running all around the place. I…

I’m getting tired of explaining to people why, if you’re a startup, you should be pitching in English, even in your home country. I’m so tired that, even though this has been stressed out by my friends Mike Butcher from Techcrunch Europe or Paul…

Hi everyone, so I’m here at LeWeb covering all startup related things. So, the first thing I did was to go and talk to the Startup Competition finalists. As I don’t have their emails I went through their websites and started either contacting…

Hi from Poland! I’m currently attending one of my favorite tech conferences in Europe, e-nnovation conference in Poznan. It’s a conference sponsored by the Allegro Group, Poland’s eBay and I must say, one of the becons of entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe.

Everyone that either has a startup or works in this space knows that entrepreneurs are now trendy. So trendy that most governments have made it their own personal crusade to swing the entrepreneur flag…

Yeah, one more year, we’ll be attending LeWeb (7th, 8th, 9th December 2011)! Not only we’ll be attending the conference, but we’ll be covering all the startup related things during the conference. We’ll also try to showcase or more of dry run the prototype we have during the conference…

One of the things that have been bothering me this year at LeWeb is the whole conference theme issue. While I think it’s great to have it on a conference wide level, I don’t feel the same when it comes to the startup competition. This year LeWeb decided to use the SoLoMo theme…

Yesterday I had the chance to watch half of the startup competition pitches at LeWeb. I really don’t want people to get offended but some of the presentations where rather weak. Having judges like David Hornik from August Capital and failing to talk about your business…