French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
I’m happy to have done this mentoring project at Change Ventur.es in the end! Fit into a hell of a schedule, I was invited by Grace Clapham, the women of several networks, to talk to a group of 20 people on social media. I’ve taken the time, at last, to put in slides my theory…
I’ve been given the opportunity to write a chapter of a book by EGE, the Economic Warfare School based in Paris, which I attended in Master a few years ago. This is the leading training program in France and Europe on Business Intelligence, as ranked by SMBG over the years. The book is about the…
I’ve recently published an article in a collective book in French about online influence. I’ve long been curious, researching and working on, with, and for online as well as offline communities, and I felt, as a Frenchman, that this word was not innocent, as it conveys a history of more than 200 years and a…
During Tech in Asia, I had the opportunity to write about tech trends in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, without moving from Singapore. This time, I went to Jakarta for real, and met a dozen entrepreneurs and support services such as Ubifrance to discuss about the opportunities in digital marketing and social media in Indonesia. The…
Telecom operators (telcos) have long had a bad reputation of customer (mis)management, abusive prices, overall poor service and rigid mindset. This can be partly explain by their business model. Having invested billions into a fast-changing infrastructure, they want their money back. Be it at the expense of consumers who in any case have little choice…
Once your brain achieves “mobile thinking”, you can try to make your app with simple tools and methodologies. A good starting point when you have found the “job to be done” by the app is to draw the screens of the apps on a wireframe. It will allow you to count every possible step and…
Let’s try to wrap-up a week of workshop at Hyper Island on “Mobile Lab”, or how to think mobile, do it, test it and sell it without reaching the cemetery of these thousands of unknown, poorly designed or simply not marketed apps. Mobile, says Jonathan Briggs, a veteran of computer science and founder of Hyper…
You know I’m obsessed with the concept of communities, ecosystems, as I’m convinced it’s a long-time trend that is disrupting, bits by bits, our ancient world made out of companies, states and organizations that adapt too slowly and too badly to the empowered people grouped in communities, across genders, race, countries (end of the…
The AppStore, and Google Play to a lesser extent, are closed and mysterious worlds, especially when you compare them with “the web”, yes, you know, this old thing whose “end” is proclaimed by Wired every other year. The one with lolcats, if you still didn’t make the difference.
Mugunth Kumar, a pro iOS developer, gave us yesterday at the Plug-In in Singapore a good overview of the appstore economics, and began with a truth: “don’t lament over it, except if you’re a journalist, and learn to play within these closed walls.”
Startup Asia is one of South-East Asia main tech conferences, with two days of speeches, demo, contests and networking. The opening pre-event talk this week in Singapore was an opportunity to learn more about the differences between South-East Asia countries, and how you have to adapt to a large area made of different languages, religions,…