French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
As I’m starting to work back from a coworking space, and before Singapore fully reopens its economy in Phase II, I wanted to share some thoughts about the last 2 months. Lockdown started here on April 7th, after already three weeks of advise from local authorities to work from home. Like many others, I guess…
A year ago this day, I began my path as an entrepreneur in Asia. The start was harsh, as I decided to join a local startup first, but the seed of setting our own co was neatly set up by my partner Mathieu who (courageously) stayed in Paris. After (not even) two months of marketing…
We talked last time of what worked and not during a crowdfunding campaign, using both social media and IRL connections to get a project funded. I’d like to write a bit about the way we covered the SXSW Interactive conference, because as far as I know, it’s not been done before, and we’re only at…
A professional and personal life experience, that’s how I would sum up my first successful crowdfunding campaign. A few elements of context : Our objective was to fund a new media/community-based coverage of SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, looking specifically how this Texan city created and sustained its successful ecosystem. We needed the money no…
Qu’elle est jolie, cette expression, le “journalisme entrepreneurial” ! Ou comment inventer des dispositifs médiatiques qui forcent les narrateurs, conteurs, explorateurs, décrypteurs, à sortir du confort douillet de la commande pour aller chercher avec la foi et les foies les moyens et l’audience autour d’un événement. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oXBYrOGjKr8] Ci-joint un échange avec Damien du Lab Davanac, dont le slogan “First learn…
Life is full of these moments when different things and paths seem to converge. When the convergence is reached, it then seems obvious it could not have been different, and still, there’s some magic in this. I’m launching a crowdfunding campaign in France, on KissKissBankBank, to attend the innovation festival SXSW in Austin, Texas, thus…
Day #1 : The heat of the night The first thing I want, before even to get the Nokia Lumia at the airport, is to have a taste of the air, and of the heat… I still have my ski jacket on me, and want to forget about Europe’s snowy winter. Even the Airbus A380…