French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
China is entering a new stage of development. Expanding overseas to sustain growth, Chinese companies now threaten the GAFA’s territories. In the last two years, news on Chinese companies have frequently hit the headlines: Telecom equipment giant Huawei became #3 behind Samsung and Apple in the smartphone market. Suning Commerce Group accepted a $6 billion tie-up with Alibaba in…
In this new world of Unicorns, the closed (but growing) club of $1bn+ startups, it’s definitely a hard time to be a Dinosaur, as MNCs are often dubbed in comparison. They’re slow and take months, if not years, to go from the idea to the product, as R&D seems unfit to “fail fast” and iterate…
Universities are both a place for innovators to learn and grow, and sometimes an obstacle to innovation. On the one hand, companies like Google are tightly intertwined with the support from their universities, a place to grow ideas, research, patents, and to find sometimes a first driver for growth. On the other hand, many universities…
Getting the trends out of the interactive festival of SXSW in Austin is always quite a challenge when you know there’s more than 1000 events, conferences, demo, startup pitches, not including the famous parties. Still, this year was one of objects rather than apps, of hardware more than software, in a nutshell: the real world…
 If Singapore is not (yet ?) famous for its tech scene, it’s gradually growing as such with a cosmopolite bunch of people, events and media outlets building the beginning of a comprehensive and efficient tech/digital/social community. Check out Tech in Asia, e27 or SGEntrepreneurs on the media side, Blk71, The Hub or the Kennel for…
“Normally you don’t wake up early on a Saturday morning. But you’re not normal, you’re entrepreneurs !“, and that’s a great kick-off and summary of the Ideas.Inc StartingUp 2012 Grand Finale, that took place on September 22nd at Sentosa.The events puts an end to a business challenge that builds startups and help develop a culture…