I like a lot the idea to work for something that has a positive impact on others and the planet. Go beyond profits. So much has been done recently for making it easier to do something good. Job Sense: french job board https://jobsense.fr/ 80.000 hours is the number of hours you’ll work in your life, …
Seotesteronline.com Optimize SEO on WordPress: Yoast SEO Adwords Keywords Planner : my go to place for keyword search… Ahrefs Sistrix SEM Rush : used that one a lot, not cheap but still ok price as long as you use it a lot MOZ Screaming Frog’s SEO Spider Keywords Websites ranking Alexa Similarweb Youtube and social …
For many years, Sketch.com was my go to place for designing logos, banners, prototypes. But now there are other tools that I use or consider using… figma.com : strongest competitor to Sketch at the moment, so much that Sketch plans to implement some of its collaboration features in 2020. It’s also what I use now …
otter.ai I totally love what that startup does. Techcrunch Disrupt was using them on their main stage. They automatically translate conferences live. Afterwards, they even automatically assign the sentences to each speaker. Very well done, makes me think of this need for people wearing hearing aid or having unsolved hearing impairment. otter.ai/disruptberlin
Nect.com : onboarding of users with selfie ident, card ident. Validates remotely the identity of your new customers. Leadrebel.io : only B2B for SMB visitors of your website by analysing IP address of visitors… Lots of data scrapping around the web. Makes the link to CEO and other decisions makers who might be interested in …
https://www.atomico.com/ One of the largest VC Funds in Europe. Quite surprised by how empty their website looks like. Niall Wass, Partner Atomico Lots of talk on stage about the fact that men still get a huge majority of the funding, women’s share still 10% (???) Some partnerships: Korukids provides after school nannies, childcare in the …
(Roxanne Varza interviewed by Romain Dillet) It’s like a universty for startups 30 programs. from companies (Facebook, Microsoft, Apple…), from universities, management schools (HEC, Insead)… Minimum 1 year engagement Until then just one partner left. Try to avoid competition between programs. Flatmates: 600 entrepreneurs coliving space. One third non-french. Starting 399 euros per room per …
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Interesting first person on stage at Techcrunch Disrupt: Hiroki Takeushi, co-founder of Gocardless. He launched this service enabling Small and Middle Businesses to offer Direct Debit Payment. Direct debit is quite different in every country. Gocardless connects all direct debit systems into one platform. Used to be UK focused. Now they can collect payments from …
I like to binge listen to podcasts, especially in the winter I go for one or two walks every day for a total of two hours, which enables me to listen to 2 to 3 podcasts at normal or 150% speed. I’m nevertheless frustrated by the design of podcast apps. For example Apple’s own podcast …
The grand father of my grand father has a special place in the history of my family. Even if of course I’m just so far away from him, his life inspired me and if I start a PhD some day, he will certainly have had an impact on my motivation. Only memorabilia I have of …