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Hold-up!
Last week at Le Camping, we organized a ?hold-up? with Kiva en Français (a non-profit organization which connects people through lending); MakeSense, which connects social entrepreneurs with individuals ready to take up their challenges; and HappyLife, created by Humanogames, a Facebook game born with the same idea of helping social entrepreneurs : the virtual players help social entrepreneurs in real life.
What exactly is a "Hold Up"?
It?s a tried and true method of brainstorming.
The goal is to extract original ideas from a group of about 15 people, revolving around a specific theme. This time it was
Version française plus basTraveling Campers: Mesagraph heads to Amsterdam! Billions of pieces of information are produced and exchanged on the internet everyday. How do you benefit from it without feeling overwhelmed? That?s the underlying question at Mesagraph, a platform that searches relative information in social media. A small interview with Sebastian Lefebvre, CEO of Mesagraph, who just returned from Amsterdam where he took part in The Next Web conference April 27-29.Hi Sebastian. What was your overall impression? Hi Elise. It was a great conference that really incorporated the different aspects of the web. Of course I?
Campers from Seasons 1 and 2 are very supportiv. Based on the emulation of a community of peers, the sharing of experiences and of best practices helps the Campers considerably.
Key #1: The team, your team!
"Startups, you will no doubt come up against a number of obstacles, from pivots to mini-failures: if the team is not up to the challenge, the project might just go under" explains Benjamin Hardy, co-founder and CEO of Kawet.
"Each one in the team must have its own technical domain, and thus have a feeling of responsibility for it. Go in vacation together in
Manal Aboutayeb has been Community Manager at Explee for just under two months (an online software which allows non technical users to create amazing and pedagogical videos). I found out about her through her posts on the Explee Blog, which I really enjoyed. She gave us a straight-forward explanation of her job: Community Manager, a position that came into existence around 10 years ago with the advent of the digital world.
To find out more, check out this infographic on the place of the Community manager in a company and an article outlining the pitfalls to avoid as a Community
Teeniz, the social game that gets children learning English in a fun way, is changing its name. The artist formerly known as Teeniz is now... Babble Planet!
The name chosen for a startup is quite important. It's the first thing that anyone sees and the starting point of communication with the user or investor community. A kind of emotional and symbolic attachment is developed as well.
So when the time comes to change it, for various different reasons (the domain name's already been bought by someone else, impossible to buy it off them, another site carrying a similar name might
Start-up Anatomy with Fadi Bishara. Many organizations are striving to be "intrapreneurial". Fadi shared his insights gailed in 2 decades of entrepreneurial work. Permission to fail, pay-it forward attitude, relationship at the base...
What is the Skerou story?
Skerou is a tale of three young entrepreneurs : Gregory was sick and tired of losing track of all his purchases and having to make shopping list upon shopping list, only to head back to the supermarket to buy those forgotten groceries... not to mention wasting time cutting out coupons for discount items!
Together with Ludovic, he got started on this project: the creation of a mobile application that is able to collate all your purchases by scanning your receipts, in order to help you draw up shopping lists and take advantage of any special promotions.
A few days before the Demo Day, Yoann and Erika sent us an email to participate in Demo Day. As their field of study is innovation, we eventually agreed to let them take part in Demo Day but on one condition... that they give us their opinion! That's what they did, and we liked it.
By Erika Batista
"After listening to all the pitches from the different startups, I was left with one major feeling: effervescence.
It is not a feeling that comes very often. In fact, more often than not, throughout our education we?re trained not to be
Written by Manal Aboutayeb on the - very good! - blog of Explee
Last Thursday Clément Cazalot, founder of docTrackr - a startup devoted to the control and protection of documents - shared his experience as a young entrepreneur at Le Camping. He drew attention to the 10 most commonly committed mistakes among emerging startups.
#1 Reading too many articles
In some articles success is shown as if it were some kind of magical phenomenon. Often people lie about what they've done and tend to overestimate their work, above all in the United States where "Magic Success" is an integral part of their