September 2009
65 posts
RT @Franceunquote: Argos Soditic Mid-Market Index, unlisted mid-market companies fall to 6.2x EBITDA from 7.6x in previous semester. #yam
Devant le salon #ecommerce. Taux de cravates: 5%. Taux d’iphones: 60%. #yam
Notation crédit 2.0 : Cortera →
Quelques entreprises sont notoirement connues pour être de mauvais payeurs.
Ils ne le font pas forcément exprès. C’est plus souvent une question de procédures : trop de signatures à…
La bonne question →
La mesure d’opinion est un sujet bien complexe… Pas forcément pour les raisons que l’on pense.
De l’extérieur, la complexité semble être dans les modèles de traitement numérique et statistique,…
Some companies are well known to be awful payers.
Not necessarily on purpose. Usually, it is a question of process: too many necessary signatures, approvals, too many changes needed on the billing statement…
Of course, if a SME tried to do the same, its suppliers would soon panic, think it is in trouble, and stop delivering. However, most bad payers are usually large reputable...
Surveys are not an easy undertaking. Not for lack of answers, but for lack of questions.
Complexity seems to lie in numerical and statistical procedures. However, the best statistician will not get anything out of skewed or faulty data.
Why then are so many surveys so badly written ?
For instance :
many questions have multiple parts (“what is your opinion about this...
I think that yes. RT @andrerib: (thanks mum!) Do dysfunctional families breed entrepreneurs? http://bit.ly/2RKWmI
Finally there is somebody else from NextStage on Twitter. Welcome @ma_gastineau !
RT @epelboin: 10 pistes d’évolution pour la télé (sur Internet) ! http://bit.ly/3OEhI9
Enfin reçu mes nouvelles cartes de visite avec mon identifiant twitter. #yam
RT @Franceunquote: NextStage has invested EUR 1m in Expertissim, an online art retail platform. http://bit.ly/qaB4u
Nouveau post : “travailler dur, c’est surfait” http://bit.ly/JWtM1
RT @oliviermarx: Expertissim (e-Commerce d’objets d’art) lève 1 million d’euros via Nextstage et choisit ALTICS - http://bit.ly/1WNJsI
New post : The problem w/ being certain is getting it all wrong http://bit.ly/17cq01 (En français : http://bit.ly/aOjtk)
The day the media died : Madison Avenue Blues. Right on target and great ! http://bit.ly/M7HLN
“The best way to graduate from beginner is to get in way over your head. Nothing makes you better faster.” http://bit.ly/GsJeh
What’s the point of my credit card’s 3 digit CVV if firefox decides to memorize it ?
New blog post: Working hard is overrated http://bit.ly/7sfrP
Why oh why does #Google Reader’s “mark all as read” act as “just mark some random things as read” ?
Travailler dur, c'est surfait →
Caterina Fake, fondatrice de Flickr.com : Travailler dur, c’est surfait
(traduction KN, lien via Bijan Sabet)
“Quand nous construisions Flickr, nous travaillions très dur. Toute…
Le problème avec les certitudes →
Une vérité fondamentale du capital-risque est que très, très souvent, on se trompe totalement. Les incentives font en sorte qu’il est plus douloureux de croire en une société qui échoue (…
Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr.com : Working hard is overrated
(via Bijan Sabet)
“When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard. We worked all
waking hours, we didn’t stop. My Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon and I were
talking about how hard we worked on our first startups, his being Site
Advisor, acquired by McAfee — 14-18 hours a day. We agreed that a lot
of what we then considered...
A fundamental thruth of Venture Capital: very, very often, we get it totally wrong. All the incentives are there to make it more painful to believe in a company that doesn’t make it (Type I error) than to pass on a company that makes it big (Type II error). As a consequence, from the moment we receive a business plan, assuming we get excited by the company, most of the review process is...
Nouveau post : les mauvais payeurs, et leurs fournisseurs. http://bit.ly/15zPX
New post : deadbeat companies and their suppliers http://bit.ly/2JWuIC (english version of the post) #cortera #creditratings
RT @ev McKinsey did study for AT&T in the 80’s about cell phones. Prediction: 1M units in US by 2000. Actual: 109M. Forecasting is hard.
Notation crédit 2.0 : Cortera →
Quelques entreprises sont notoirement connues pour être de mauvais payeurs.
Ils ne le font pas forcément exprès. C’est plus souvent une question de procédures : trop de signatures à…
Some companies are well known to be awful payers.
Not necessarily on purpose. Usually, it is a question of process: too many necessary signatures, approvals, too many changes needed on the billing statement…
Of course, if a SME tried to do the same, its suppliers would soon panic, think it is in trouble, and stop delivering. However, most bad payers are usually large reputable...
Merci @kapeos pour le post (et le petit clin d’oeil) !
New blog post : Surveys and Jeopardy http://bit.ly/qmvNC
Nouveau post : “Mesure d’opinion - La bonne question” http://bit.ly/2cuD77
La bonne question →
La mesure d’opinion est un sujet bien complexe… Pas forcément pour les raisons que l’on pense.
De l’extérieur, la complexité semble être dans les modèles de traitement numérique et statistique,…
Surveys are not an easy undertaking. Not for lack of answers, but for lack of questions.
Complexity seems to lie in numerical and statistical procedures. However, the best statistician will not get anything out of skewed or faulty data.
Why then are so many surveys so badly written ?
For instance :
many questions have multiple parts (“what is your opinion about this...
PEHub : “Entrepreneurs view VCs like voters view Congressmen. They hate ‘em all, except for their own.”
Art…rebooted. Very proud to announce our €1m investment in Expertissim.com ; congrats to both founders and nextstage team.
J’aime bien la synthèse de Tvnomics sur les start-ups vidéo française. Mais un peu dispersé comme échantillon… http://bit.ly/drkUm
Congrats @LvP for launching Zoond ! TV finally reinvented — and I’m really glad to see Fair Play Interactive succeed.
Iranian president just told the UN to prepare for the coming of the last Imam AND Jesus Christ. I just can’t process this…
This is just fabulous ! E-mail error ends up on road sign http://bit.ly/u9S3L (via @monkchips)
Bande Passante et Synchronicité →
Une proportion (trop) élevée des dossiers d’investissement que nous recevons contient un “mapping” popularisé par Gartner positionnant la société et ses concurrents selon deux axes, judicieusement…
Où est mon jetpack ? →
Brad Feld poste sur ce que lui apporte la science-fiction dans le quotidien du métier de VC : cela se résume surtout à accumuler les idées, pour ensuite en faire sens. Réfléchir aux visions du…
Neutralité du net - La position de la FCC →
Dans une confirmation importante de sa précédente prise de position, la FCC a fortement confirmé aujourd’hui, à travers son nouveau président Julius Genachowski, son attachement aux principes de…
Le Fluctuant paysage du travail →
Une visualisation fascinante de l’évolution de la répartition de la population active américaine par métier entre 1850 et 2000 - ou comment une population de fermiers est devenue un pays de cols…
A fascinating visualization of the evolution in kinds of jobs held in the US between 1850 et 2000 - showing the move for an agricultural country to a blue collar, then white collar, nation.
The tool also shows the speed at which women entered the workforce in the 50’s, and then moved on to ever more qualified jobs.
The interactive tool is available here.
(Via : Paul Kedrosky)
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Brad Feld posting on what science fiction does for him in his day-to-day work as a VC. Sums up in the accumulation of ideas, and the extraction of meaning. Thinking about visions of the future that might come through, and those that should have but didn’t.
The post deserves reading, if only for this great The West Wing quote :
“Leo McGarry: My generation never got the future...
Far too many of the business plan we receive include the Gartner mapping positionning the company in the magic upper right quadrant - with a judicious choice of the two dimensions to achieve this result.
The discussion never is on the actual mapping, but on the strength of these dimensions : do they matter ? are they differenciating ?
I stumbled across an interesting...
In a momentous confirmation of its previous position, the FCC strongly confirmed today, through its new chairman Julius Genachowski, its belief in the net neutrality principles.
Net neutrality is an often overlooked but fundamental issue affecting the prospects of development of the Internet. Simply stated, this principle requires that providers of net access only manage the pipe, and let through...
RT @alexkjerulf: “When I was a Catholic priest, 20% of my superiors thought they were Divinely inspired. Now, in business, it’s 80%.”
Great post by Seth Godin on Business Development http://bit.ly/QAl66
New blog post - Net Neutrality and the FCC: http://bit.ly/15ltvi (En Français - Neutralité du net et la FCC : http://bit.ly/NlMeh)
