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		<title>Singularity: 2010 exclusive preview of our 14 projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Closing ceremony today at Singularity!
Here is an exclusive preview of our 14 projects:
Home Energy Generation
AMUNDA: Powering Humanity
To create a transparent World Energy Market Place where all energy-related information for every location of the world will be visualized, and where buyers and sellers of energy products and services can meet to profitably satisfy their energy needs

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Closing ceremony today at Singularity!</p>
<p>Here is an exclusive preview of our 14 projects:</p>
<p><strong><a rel="attachment wp-att-1938" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1936-singularity-2010-exclusive-preview-of-our-14-projects/energy-thumb-2"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1938" title="energy-thumb" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/energy-thumb1-168x200.jpg" alt="" width="138" height="163" /></a>Home Energy Generation</strong></p>
<p>AMUNDA: Powering Humanity<br />
To create a transparent World Energy Market Place where all energy-related information for every location of the world will be visualized, and where buyers and sellers of energy products and services can meet to profitably satisfy their energy needs</p>
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<p><strong><a rel="attachment wp-att-1939" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1936-singularity-2010-exclusive-preview-of-our-14-projects/food-thumb-2"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1939" title="food-thumb" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/food-thumb1-168x200.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="159" /></a>Food for Cities</strong></p>
<p>Opportunities in Controlled Environment Agriculture and Vertical Farming<br />
Application of hydroponic food production for decentralized, controlled agricultural production in urban environments</p>
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<p><strong><a rel="attachment wp-att-1940" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1936-singularity-2010-exclusive-preview-of-our-14-projects/upcycle-thumb-2"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1940" title="upcycle-thumb" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/upcycle-thumb1-168x200.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="158" /></a>Upcycle</strong>: Waste Reduction and Reprocessing of Waste Materials Into Useful Products</p>
<p>BioMine – remediating precious materials for reuse using biological means</p>
<p>Fre3dom – distributed manufacturing to promote self-sustaining communities</p>
<p>i2cycle – innovating industrial cycles to create global materials ecosystems</p>
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<p><strong><a rel="attachment wp-att-1941" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1936-singularity-2010-exclusive-preview-of-our-14-projects/water-thumb-3"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1941" title="water-thumb" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/water-thumb2-168x200.jpg" alt="" width="144" height="171" /></a>Sustainable Water Assets</strong><strong>: From Water Poverty to Abundance</strong></p>
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H2020 –application of data integration technologies new forms of data collection, crowdsourced GIS location specific data and AI tools to identify and match needs and solutions</p>
<p>Sensoria – low cost identification of pollutants through biotech and sensors using new genetics approaches</p>
<p>Naishio – looking at the exponential growth of converging technologies to accelerate low cost desalination and abundant water</p>
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<p><strong><a rel="attachment wp-att-1942" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1936-singularity-2010-exclusive-preview-of-our-14-projects/space-thumb-2"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1942" title="space-thumb" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/space-thumb1-168x200.jpg" alt="" width="141" height="167" /></a>Space – To Boldly Stay </strong><strong><strong><br />
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<p>Extending humanity into the Solar System: Biologically Enhanced Space Technology – biological materials and biology inspired structures</p>
<p>Cheap Access to Space – Developing a fully reusable externally powered space launch system</p>
<p>Small Satellite Swarms – Building a shared cloud of nano-satellites in Low Earth Orbit to enable space-based services with zero infrastructure investment</p>
<p>AI Labs – An R&amp;D firm to apply general artificial intelligence to increasingly autonomous teleoperated robots and synthetic biology to help create survivable environments, overcome disease and aging, and extend human presence in space</p>
<p>Made in Space – Build spacecraft, tools, and other infrastructure in space using 3D printing technologies</p>
<p>SpaceBio Labs – Providing cheap and easy access to highly functional biological experiments in space on automated platforms that are reliable for long duration experiments</p>
<p>Eugénie</p>
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		<title>Upcycle project: Fre3dom and 3D printing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kidist, student from Ethiopia, give us a first glimpe of Fre3dom, their Upcycle project.

About Fre3dom – distributed manufacturing to promote self-sustaining communities
About Kidist: Born in 1983, in a small village called qufanziq in the eastern part of Ethiopia. She joined the Addis Ababa University, and graduated with a mathematics degree. She went to the African [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kidist, student from Ethiopia, give us a first glimpe of Fre3dom, their Upcycle project.</p>
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<p>About Fre3dom – distributed manufacturing to promote self-sustaining communities</p>
<p>About Kidist: Born in 1983, in a small village called qufanziq in the eastern part of Ethiopia. She joined the Addis Ababa University, and graduated with a mathematics degree. She went to the African Institute for Mathematics, in Cap Town, South Africa. Now, she is a third year PhD student at the University of Houston, TX.</p>
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		<title>Singularity: dernières heures avant les présentations: Eau et nouvelles technologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dernières heures avant la présentation de  nos projets:
Comment impacter 1 milliard de personnes de manière positive sur les problématiques de l&#8217;eau.
Notre réponse: H2020, The Water Hub

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dernières heures avant la présentation de  nos projets:</p>
<p>Comment impacter 1 milliard de personnes de manière positive sur les problématiques de l&#8217;eau.</p>
<p>Notre réponse: H2020, The Water Hub</p>
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		<title>Innovation in the slums : Interview with Julian, Singularity student</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian, amazing Singularity student, is telling us about his work in Chile and on his experience experience at Singularity:

About Julian:
Julian Ugarte, is an industrial designer and Director and Founder of the Un Techo para mi Pais Innovation Center, the world&#8217;s largest social innovation organization, that partners university faculty and students with thousands of people who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Julian, amazing Singularity student, is telling us about his work in Chile and on his experience experience at Singularity:</p>
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<p>About Julian:</p>
<p>Julian Ugarte, is an industrial designer and Director and Founder of the Un <a href="http://www.centrodeinnovacion.org/" target="_blank">Techo para mi Pais</a> Innovation Center, the world&#8217;s largest social innovation organization, that partners university faculty and students with thousands of people who reside in slums.</p>
<p>Through creating business solutions for social problems, this center has positively impacted 80 million people in 18 different countries.</p>
<p>As a global leader in design-thinking methods, Julian has created a partnership with the Art Center College of Design, the world&#8217;s leading design educational institution.  A number of his Innovation Center Fellows are faculty members at leading academic institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford University.</p>
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		<title>Beaux gosses au Startup Bootcamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotties at Startup Bootcamp
Translated in english below
Un jour comme les autres à Startup Bootcamp commence à 8h45 avec une intervention de Linda Hickman, Entrepreneur, mentor et educator of entrepreneurs à la London School of Economics. Elle offre les leçons de son expérience de plusieurs années chez Oracle.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>Hotties</em> at Startup Bootcamp</strong><br />
<em>Translated in english below</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Un jour comme les autres à <a href="http://www.startupbootcamp.dk/">Startup Bootcamp</a> commence à 8h45 avec une intervention de Linda Hickman, Entrepreneur, mentor et <em>educator of entrepreneurs</em> à la London School of Economics. Elle offre les leçons de son expérience de plusieurs années chez Oracle.<br />
Tout ce qu&#8217;elle raconte,  c&#8217;est de la théorie applicable maintenant pour son auditoire, c&#8217;est un cours qui donne une vision de la stratégie à mener. Sans recette magique, elle délivre pourtant les erreurs à ne pas commettre, les phases classiques de lancement d&#8217;un produit, les clients, et quels clients il faut aller chercher en 1er&#8230;<br />
Je retiendrais surtout une anecdote à propos de la persévérance d&#8217;un élève qu&#8217;elle a connu, qui alla frapper à la porte de la chambre d&#8217;hôtel du CEO constructeur n°1 de voitures pour lui présenter son idée : la voiture du futur.<br />
Ce ne sont pas tant les compétences de ce culotté qui ont séduit le CEO, mais sa volonté.</p>
<p>Le message est clair : &#8220;Allez directement vous adresser au partenaire de rêve&#8221;, le <em>just do it</em>, encore et toujours !</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">J&#8217;ai la chance de pouvoir m&#8217;immiscer dans l&#8217;intimité du face à face entre une équipe et Linda. Le &#8220;one to one&#8221; qui permet à chacun de trouver son mentor et de bénéficier de conseils personnalisé. On entre dans le vif du sujet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">LH :&#8221;Avez-vous réalisé le prototype fonctionnel ?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Non, pas encore, c&#8217;est moi qui m&#8217;en charge et je sais comment je vais faire&#8221;<br />
LH :  &#8220;Ah oui? Les développeurs disent tous ça au début&#8221;&#8230;<br />
LH : &#8220;Dans votre business model, vous n&#8217;intégrez pas le chainon de la distribution, pourquoi?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Nous allons entrer en partenariat avec des entreprises expertes pour cela&#8221;<br />
LH : &#8220;C&#8217;est votre priorité.&#8221;<br />
LH : &#8220;Quels sont les chiffres qui prouvent l&#8217;existence d&#8217;un marché?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Justement, c&#8217;est très difficile d&#8217;en trouver des précis, sauriez-vous où nous pourrions les trouver ?&#8221;<br />
LH : &#8220;Ok, alors vous pouvez contacter de ma part&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Et voila, 100 heures de gagnées à chercher des études introuvables.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Je déjeune ensuite à côté d&#8217;un des membres de la Startup Local Measures, Arturas. Local Measures est une plate-forme sociale pour de la publicité ciblée. &#8220;Nous aidons à améliorer l&#8217;impact de la publicité en créant des profils sociaux à vos visiteurs.&#8221;<br />
Encore un qui veut réinventer Facebook? Non, pas du tout, il a compris comment réutiliser tous nos avatars, que ce soit Facebook, twitter, nos blogs, pour analyser les profils de visiteurs sur des sites commerciaux et s&#8217;en servir pour rendre plus pertinentes les publicités. Je lui demande alors si les règles de droits qui encadrent les données de nos avatars ne sont pas un obstacles pour lui, &#8220;il y a déjà beaucoup de données inexploitées, sans avoir à rentrer dans les profils privés !&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ça me rappelle alors cette fois où, en voyant systématiquement une pub pour adopter un chat sur ma page facebook, moi qui n&#8217;avais encore rien compris, je demande à une amie :<br />
- &#8220;Franchement, les animaleries ont tant d&#8217;argent que ça pour faire de la pub sur facebook?&#8221;,<br />
avant qu&#8217;elle ne me réponde :<br />
- &#8220;C&#8217;est les chats pour toi, les bottes pour moi&#8221;.<br />
- &#8220;Ah, ok, Facebook rentre dans notre subconscient alors&#8230;&#8221;<br />
- &#8220;ben non, tu n&#8217;as qu&#8217;à pas <em>raconter ta life</em> dessus&#8221;, me renvoya-t-elle à la figure.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Bref, les startupers repartent travailler.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A 16h, je pense à partir quand Alex, l&#8217;organisateur du Startup Bootcamp, me rappelle à l&#8217;ordre :<br />
- &#8220;Alice, ne pars pas maintenant, il y a deux jeunes <em>serial entrepreneurs</em> qui débarquent, 22 et 25 ans.&#8221;<br />
- &#8220;Ah! Je ne veux pas rater ça !&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Les voila, jeunes, sûrs d&#8217;eux, <em>beau gosses ! -</em>comme dirait l&#8217;autre.<br />
Michael Bodekær Jensen et Niklas Stephenson, a-tten-tion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.michaelbodekaer.com/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1862" title="Capture d’écran 2010-08-19 à 22.00.48" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Capture-d’écran-2010-08-19-à-22.00.48.png" alt="" width="106" height="166" />Michael</a>, le plus âgé, 25 ans, est le co-fondateur de 8 startups, dont la 1ère il y a 12 ans -donc, effectivement, il avait 13 ans quand il a monté sa 1ere startup. Sur son site, il recommande d&#8217;aller lire ce post : &#8220;<a href="http://zenhabits.net/productive-and-smiling/.">How to be Insanely Productive and Still Keep Smiling</a>&#8220;. Un simple regard sur sa photo et on comprend. ; )<br />
Sur ses 8 startups, 2 ont bien réussi, il s&#8217;agit de <a href="http://www.smartlaunch.com/webpages/">Smartlaunch</a> et de <a href="http://lejebolig.dk/Default.aspx">Boligplus.</a><br />
Il commence sa présentation par l&#8217; &#8220;entonnoir des investisseurs&#8221;, c&#8217;est-à-dire, le chemin qui va de l&#8217;idée à la levée de fond, les étapes intermédiaires étant : la démo, le prototype fonctionnel, les utilisateurs, les clients.<br />
- &#8220;Je vois beaucoup de boites qui restent concentrées sur le développement de leur prototype plutôt que d&#8217;aller trouver des clients. Vous devez tous les jours vous poser la question de ce qui va susciter l&#8217;intérêt de l&#8217;investisseur. Il doit pouvoir trouver dans votre modèle, l&#8217;ensemble de ces points de l&#8217;<em>entonnoir</em>. &#8220;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1863" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1861-beaux-gosses-au-startup-bootcamp/niklas_115"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1863" title="niklas_115" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/niklas_115.jpg" alt="" width="117" height="133" /></a>Sur cette phrase, <a href="http://niklasstephenson.com">Niklas Stephenson</a> enchaîne :<br />
- &#8220;5 jours après avoir créé un projet au <a href="http://copenhagen.startupweekend.org/">Startup Weekend de Copenhague,</a> j&#8217;étais en face de VC qui voulaient investir. Pourquoi? J&#8217;avais un produit à moitié fini, mais le concept, l&#8217;équipe et tout le reste étaient déjà présents&#8221;.<br />
Il parle de <a href="http://memolane.com/static/about">Memolane</a>, une startup lancée il y a 5 mois, d&#8217;une idée assez géniale -je trouve, qui consiste à mémoriser l&#8217;ensemble des tweets, headlines Facebooks, infos données sur last.fm et autres, sur une seule et même plate-forme. C&#8217;est en quelque sorte archiver l&#8217;éphémère de nos pensées de manière pro-active (à la différence d&#8217;Internet qui garde nos infos à notre insu ou presque).<br />
Niklas est drôle, il joue avec son personnage de super-vorace-des-profits :<br />
- &#8220;Partout où vous allez, dans la rue, en soirée, pendant vos courses, vous vous adressez à 2 catégories de personnes : des investisseurs ou des clients. J&#8217;accompagnais mon père qui aime les bateaux, dans un magasin spécialisé pour les marins. Aujourd&#8217;hui, c&#8217;est toute la chaîne de ces magasins qui est équipée avec mon logiciel de Telco.&#8221;<br />
Au delà de ce côté &#8220;funny funny&#8221;, c&#8217;est avant tout un type qui croit en lui et qui saisit les petites opportunités qu&#8217;il a. Il se rend à Silicon Vanlley avec son équipe, il n&#8217;a alors qu&#8217;un seul contact là bas. Il &#8220;donne tout&#8221; pendant son pitch, d&#8217;un VC, il y en a 5  qui dans la journée entendent parler du projet, de ces 5, il y en a un qui va investir sur une de ses boites, <a href="http://www.firmafon.dk/">Firmafon</a>, je crois.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ces 2 garçons sont un vrai boost pour les participants du StartUp Bootcamp, on entre dans le concret. Tous écoutent avec attention, réagissent, posent des questions, ça sent l&#8217;émulation et les neurones qui cogitent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Je vous laisse sur une petite blague -histoire vraie?, que racontait <a href="http://es.linkedin.com/in/luisrivera">Luis Riviera</a>, l&#8217;un des mentors de Startup Bootcamp :<br />
<em>On demande à un VC de choisir la startup sur laquelle il va investir parmi les 200 dossiers qu&#8217;il reçoit.<br />
&#8220;Je prends les dossiers, je les lance en l&#8217;air.<br />
Celui qui atterrit ouvert sur mon bureau, c&#8217;est le bon.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Pourquoi investirais-je sur des gens qui n&#8217;ont pas de chance?&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">A typical day at <a href="http://www.startupbootcamp.dk/">Startup bootcamp</a> starts at 8:45 with a speech by Linda Hickman, entrepreneur, mentor and <em>educator of Entrepreneurs</em> at the London School of Economics. She offers her experience’ s lessons of many years at Oracle.<br />
Everything she says is theory applicable now for her audience, it is a class that gives a vision of the strategy to pursue. Without magic formula, she gives the mistakes not to make, the standard stages to launch a product, clients, and which clients must be approached first&#8230; I will primarily remember her story about the perseverance of a student she knew who knocked at the door of the hotel room of the No. 1 car manufacturer CEO to present him his idea: the car of the future. It is not so much the skills of this cheeky guy that seduced the CEO, but his will.<br />
The message is: &#8220;Go directly contact the partner of your dreams, the <em>&#8220;just do it</em> “ again and again!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I have the chance to meddle in the intimate encounter between a team and Linda. The &#8220;one to one&#8221; that allows everyone to find his mentor and receive personalized advice. We enter the heart of the matter.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">LH: &#8220;Have you done the working prototype?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Not yet, I am responsible for it and I know how I’ll do it.&#8221;<br />
LH: &#8220;Yeah? Developers all say that at the beginning&#8221; &#8230;<br />
LH: &#8220;In your business model, you do not include the link of the distribution, why?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;We are going to partner with expert companies for that&#8221;<br />
LH: &#8220;This is your first priority.”<br />
LH:&#8221; What numbers prove the existence of a market?&#8221;<br />
“Well, it&#8217;s actually very difficult to find accurate ones, do you know where we could find some?&#8221;<br />
LH:&#8221; Ok, then you can contact on my behalf&#8230; &#8220;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Here you go, 100 hours won on searching for mysterious studies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I then have lunch next to a member of the Startup Local Measures, Arturas. Local Measures is a social platform for targeted advertising. &#8220;We help to improve the impact of your advertising by creating social profiles to your visitors.&#8221;  Another one who wants to reinvent Facebook? </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">No, not at all, he understood how to reuse all of our avatars, be it Facebook, Twitter or our blogs, to analyze patterns of visitors to commercial sites and use them to make them more relevant advertisements. I asked him if the rules that govern the rights over the data of our avatars are not an obstacle for him :<br />
&#8220;There are a lot of unexploited data, without having to go into private profiles !&#8221;, he said to me.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">It reminds me of the time when, systematically seeing an ad for cat adoption on my Facebook page; I did not understand yet; I ask a friend :<br />
- &#8220;Frankly, pet shops have so much money that they can advertise on Facebook?&#8221;<br />
Before she answered:<br />
-&#8221;It&#8217;s cats for you,  boots for me.&#8221;<br />
-&#8221;Ah, ok, Facebook enters our subconscious, so&#8230;&#8221;<br />
She dismissed me with:<br />
-&#8221; Pff, you should just stop telling your li<span style="color: #0000ff;">fe</span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"> on it.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Anyway, the startupers go back to work.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">At 4pm, I got up to leave; Alex, the organizer of Startup Bootcamp, call me back:<br />
- &#8220;Alice, do not go now, there are two young <em>serial entrepreneurs</em> who are arriving, 22 and 25 years old. &#8221;<br />
- &#8220;Ah I do not want to miss this!”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Here they are, young, confident, winner or  <em>hot!</em> <em>–</em>As another would say.<br />
Michael Bodekær Jensen and Niklas Stephenson, be-ca-re-ful.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.michaelbodekaer.com/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1862" title="Capture d’écran 2010-08-19 à 22.00.48" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Capture-d’écran-2010-08-19-à-22.00.48.png" alt="" width="88" height="139" />Michael</a>, the eldest, 25 years old, has co-founded just eight startups, the first 12 years ago, at 13 years old. On his website, he recommends reading this post: “<a href="smili">How to be insanely productive and still keep smiling</a>”. To look at him, we understand.<br />
From his 8 startups, two were successful, <a href="http://www.smartlaunch.com/webpages/">Smartlaunch</a> and <a href="http://lejebolig.dk/Default.aspx">Boligplus</a>. He begins his presentation with &#8220;funnel investors&#8221;, that is to say, the road from the idea to the fundraising, the intermediate steps being: the demo, the functional prototype, the users, the customers. - &#8220;I see a lot of businesses that remain focused on the development of their prototype rather than go out there to find clients. You must ask yourselves every day what will attract the interest of the investor. He should find in your model all of these points of the <em>funnel.</em> &#8220;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1863" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1861-beaux-gosses-au-startup-bootcamp/niklas_115"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1863" title="niklas_115" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/niklas_115.jpg" alt="" width="89" height="101" /></a>At this point, Niklas Stephenson continued:<br />
- &#8220;five days after having created a new project at the <a href="http://copenhagen.startupweekend.org/">Startup Weekend of Copenhagen</a>, I was in front of VC who wanted to invest. Why? I had a half-finished product, but the concept, the team and the rest were already in place.” He talks about <a href="http://memolane.com/static/about">Memolane</a>, a startup launched five months ago, a fairly brilliant idea according to me, which is to memorize all the tweets, Facebook’s headlines, news, last.fm information’s and so on, on a single platform. It&#8217;s sort of the ephemeral archive of our thoughts in a pro-active way (unlike the Internet that keeps our information without our knowledge or almost).<br />
Niklas is funny, he plays with his character of super-greedy-for-profits:<br />
- &#8220;Wherever you go, in the street, at parties, during your shopping, you are addressing two categories of people: investors or customers. I accompanied my father who loves boats to a store specialized for sailors. Today, it is the entire chain of stores that is equipped with my </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">Telco</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">software.”<br />
Beyond this &#8220;funny funny&#8221; side is above all a guy who believes in him and seized the small opportunities he has. He went to Silicon Valley with his team, with only one contact there. He &#8220;gave everything&#8221; during his pitch, a VC, there are 5 who in the day heard about his project, of these five, there&#8217;s one that will invest in one of his business, <a href="http://www.firmafon.dk/">Firmafon</a> I think.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">These two boys are a real boost for the participants of Startup Bootcamp; we entered the real. All listen intently, respond, and ask questions, it smells of emulation and neurons cogitating.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I leave you with a joke: true story? <a href="http://es.linkedin.com/in/luisrivera">Luis Riviera</a>, one of the mentors of Startup Bootcamp said: </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>We asked a VC to choose which startup he will invest in among the 200 records he receives.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>“I take the files, I throw them in the air.<br />
Whichever lands open on my desk is the right one.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Why would I invest in people who have no chance?&#8221;</em></span></p>
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		<title>Martin Cooper : mobile, bande passante et Singularité</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ce monsieur à barbe blanche, portant avec classe sur la photo un téléphone géant, est l’inventeur du téléphone portable ! Nous avons notre dernière conférence avec lui ce soir, dans l’amphithéâtre de Singularity.
En 1973, alors directeur général de la division communication de Motorola, Martin Cooper passe le premier appel mobile dans une rue de New York [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-1847" href="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/1845-martin-cooper-mobile-bande-passante-et-singularite/martin-cooper-2"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1847" title="Martin Cooper" src="http://ygaw-bysiliconsentier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Martin-Cooper1-149x200.jpg" alt="" width="149" height="200" /></a>Ce monsieur à barbe blanche, portant avec classe sur la photo un téléphone géant, est l’inventeur du téléphone portable ! Nous avons notre dernière conférence avec lui ce soir, dans l’amphithéâtre de Singularity.</p>
<p>En 1973, alors directeur général de la division communication de Motorola, Martin Cooper passe le premier appel mobile dans une rue de New York à… Joel Engel, son rival de chez AT&amp;T.</p>
<p>Il n’essayait pas de rentrer dans l’histoire mais de vaincre la concurrence. Cette innovation extraordinaire est venue des utilisateurs, et Motorola a su avoir une écoute attentive de leur besoin de mobilité.</p>
<p>Martin est un futuriste, il prédit les prochaines révolutions du mobile.</p>
<p>L’extraordinaire opportunité liée au secteur de la santé: son marché représente 30% du PDP américain, principalement pour guérir les maladies, et très peu pour les prévenir. On peut facilement imaginer que dans le futur, grâce aux capteurs, nous suivions la santé en temps réel, que les crises cardiaques par exemple, deuxième cause de mortalité aux Etats-Unis, soient annoncées par des indicateurs entre 2 et 24 heures à l’avance, lors d’une modification du flux sanguin. Les mobiles seront spécialisés, liés à des patchs qui mesureront la pression sanguine ou encore, communiqueront avec des médicaments, nous confirmant l’assimilation des substances par notre organisme.</p>
<p>L’ouverture des plates-formes et des dispositifs : le contournement du fameux <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology)" target="_blank">« Walled garden »</a> ou le contrôle des opérateurs, fournisseurs de services…(Verizon, AT&amp;T…). Les technologies seront intuitives, transparentes et ouvertes.</p>
<p>Mais de nombreux enjeux restent à relever : l’urgence est à la bande passante. 250 MHz pour les US aujourd’hui, alors que les lobbies en demandent 800 de plus, et d’ici 10 ans nous aurons besoin de 40 fois ce montant. Il faudra inventer un monde et les technologies ou chacun utilisera uniquement la bande passante dont il a besoin, grâce aux antennes intelligentes, au spectre dynamique. Nous pourrons alors avoir mille fois plus de données échangées.</p>
<p>Des nouvelles formes de communication : les gens qui parlent plusieurs langues sont des meilleurs communicants. Comment faire pour contourner le problème de la langue, et arriver à faire de la traduction parfaite et simultanée.  Apres la <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularit%C3%A9_technologique" target="_blank">Singularity</a> un nouveau language sera créé. L’oreille des machines sera plus fine que celles des humains, et permettra la création d’un tout nouveau langage.</p>
<p>Pour en savoir plus : regardez une de ces dernières videos sur CBS: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6512514n&amp;tag=related;photovideo" target="_blank">ici</a></p>
<p>Eugénie</p>
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		<title>Labitat &amp; Illutron: artists and technologists in Copenhague</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice</dc:creator>
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Johan a 19 ans, il n&#8217;ira pas à la fac comme la plupart de ses anciens camarades de classe, il vient de trouver un travail de développeur. C&#8217;est un autodidacte, il a commencé à programmer sur 2d life il y a 3-4 ans, quand le phénomène était alors à son apogée au [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Translated in english below</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mrbichel.com">Johan</a> a 19 ans, il n&#8217;ira pas à la fac comme la plupart de ses anciens camarades de classe, il vient de trouver un travail de développeur. C&#8217;est un autodidacte, il a commencé à programmer sur 2d life il y a 3-4 ans, quand le phénomène était alors à son apogée au Danemark, des grandes boites qui voulaient exister sur la plate-forme ont fait appel à ses services, il a appris sur le tas.<br />
Il y a un an, il s&#8217;engage avec 9 autres personnes à monter un hackerspace à Copenhague : <a href="https://labitat.dk/index.php/Main_Page ">Labitat</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rendez-vous sous une pluie battante, devant un immeuble qui semble abandonné où Johan m&#8217;attends, il passe sa carte bleu dans la borne magnétique &#8220;fait-maison&#8221;, la porte s&#8217;ouvre, nous entrons.<br />
Je dois dire que je suis impressionnée par le nombre de machine professionnelles qui s&#8217;y trouvent : laser cutter, 3D printer, imprimantes géantes, table multitouch&#8230;Tout à l&#8217;air en parfait état. Il s&#8217;agit de matériel apporté par des membres eux même. Moins d&#8217;un an d&#8217;existence et Labitat cumule déjà 70 membres qui paient une 12 euros par mois pour un accès total au lieu.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Très investi dans la free culture, cela ne fait pas de doute pour ce jeune garçon, le monde de demain sera Open Source ou ne sera pas. Sans dogmatisme aucun, son ton est doux, sa pensée fluide, à l&#8217;écouter, ça coule de source. Une mère chanteuse, expérimentatrice de projets avant-garde -à prononcer à l&#8217;anglaise et un beau père programmeur ont suffi pour que Johan devienne ce mélange entre art et technologie. Il est naturellement attiré par les projets d&#8217;artistes pour leur environnement dénué a priori de contraintes techniques et au service du concept.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nous quittons le hackerspace pour aller dans un autre endroit : &#8220;<a href="http://www.illutron.dk/">Illutron</a>&#8220;, un bateau investi par des artistes. Illutron et Labitat se ressemblent sur bien des aspects, pourtant, si Johan préfère aller à Illutron, c&#8217;est parce que ce sont des artistes qui dirigent l&#8217;espace. Les projets sont différents, on n&#8217;y explore pas la technologie mais on sert une vision à travers elle. A Illutron, en plein mois d&#8217;aout, nous tombons sur <a href="http://longingfastforward.gl/artists/ole-kristensen/">Ole</a>. Depuis sa cabine, l&#8217;artiste finalise une pièce qui sera montrée à Ars Electronica. Ole ne me demande pas d&#8217;où je viens, ni pourquoi je suis ici mais me raconte <a href="http://longingfastforward.gl/">son prochain projet</a>. Avec 3 collaborateurs, ils vont partir au GroenLand, ancienne colonie du Danemark pour filmer pendant un an la vie de ses habitants,&#8221;Aujourd&#8217;hui, plus besoin d&#8217;être la BBC pour faire ce type d&#8217;expédition&#8221;. A force d&#8217;entendre que la glace fond et que les animaux disparaissent, ils se sont demandé pourquoi on ne parlait pas des habitants.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Avec Ole et Johan, je resterais bien parler encore pendant des heures.<br />
J&#8217;ai souvent entendu dire des hackers ou des fondateurs de lieux alternatifs que pour qu&#8217;il marche, c&#8217;est avant tout une question de culture propre aux gens qui l&#8217;incarnent. A Illutron, ça m&#8217;a tout l&#8217;air d&#8217;être ça. En témoigne le manifeste ci-dessous :</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Manifesto 1.1</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Illutron is a haven for innovative thinking between art and technology. The physical location is a rusty barge in Copenhagen Harbour.<br />
Here submarines and space rockets are built. Scrapped industrial robots are brought back to life. Here singing plants grow and classical music plays together with electronic music.<br />
illutron is a space for adventures and experiments. Artistic and technological frontiers are challenged. Experiments can be based on intuition instead of reason.<br />
Here people are creators, not consumers. Here the audience are participants, not passive observers. Here anything can happen.<br />
Creative thinking emerges from below, as long as a fertile creative environment is fostered, where small seeds can find nourishment and grow roots and flower.<br />
Technological progress happens in dialog with the surrounding society and refers to both the past and the future. Our art is a joint creative process in a group, a dialog between the group members and with cultural undercurrents in society. Art involves the audience, they become actors in dialog with the work of art, with its story.<br />
Illutron offers collective illusions, fascinating illustrations and blinding illuminations, embracing new inspirational stories in and about the world.<br />
We make the works of art and source code available under Creative Commons. We encourage others to expand on our work.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Our art</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* Fosters interaction with the audience<br />
* Is a living process and not a static product<br />
* Is based on recycled materials<br />
* Refers to its inspiration in society<br />
* Credits all involved (including the tea person)<br />
* Make the works of art and ny source code available under Creative Commons.<br />
* Encorage others to expand on the work, as long as Illutron is given credit.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This manifest may not be printed on dead trees, but must be in dialogue with the times/our time and Illutrons members. If it takes on fixed and recognisable form the project has stranded/run aground.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://mrbichel.com">Johan</a> is 19; he won&#8217;t go to college this year; he has found work as a developer. He is self-taught, he  began programming on 2d life 3-4 years ago, when the phenomenon was at  its peak in Denmark, large businesses that wanted to exist on the  platform have used its services, he learned on the job. A year ago, he  joined nine other people and set up a Hackerspace in Copenhagen: <a href="https://labitat.dk/index.php/Main_Page"> Labitat</a>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Meeting in the pouring rain, in front of a building that  looks abandoned; he places his debit card into  the homemade magnetic terminal, the door opens, we enter. I must say  that the number of professional machines therein impresses me: laser  cutter, 3D printer, giant printer, multitouch table &#8230; Everything looks  in perfect condition. Members themselves provided these materials. Less  than a year old and Labitat already has 70 members who pay 12 euros per  month for full access to the site.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Intensely interested in free  culture, it is evident to this young boy, the world of tomorrow will be  Open Source or won&#8217;t be. Without any dogmatism, his tone is soft, his  thoughts are smooth, listening to him, it just makes sense. A singer  mother, experimenting avant-garde projects and a programmer stepfather  were enough for Johan to become this mixture of art and technology. He  is naturally attracted to artists&#8217; projects for their environment  seemingly devoid of technical constraints and in service of concept.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">We  leave the Hackerspace to go to another place: “<a href="http://www.illutron.dk/">Illutron</a>&#8220;, a boat taken  over by artists. Illutron and Labitat are similar in many respects;  however, if Johan prefers to go to Illutron it is because artists run  the space. The projects are different; they do not only explore the  technology but a vision through it. At Illutron, in the middle of  August, we meet <a href="http://longingfastforward.gl/artists/ole-kristensen/">Ole</a>. From his cabin, the artist completes a piece that  will be shown at Ars Electronica. Ole does not ask me where I am from or  why I&#8217;m here but he tells me about <a href="http://longingfastforward.gl/">his next project</a>. With three  collaborators, they will go to Greenland, a former colony of Denmark, to  film the lives of its inhabitants for a year: &#8220;Today, there is no needs  to be BBC to be able to do this type of expedition.&#8221; Hearing about the  ice melting and the animals disappearing all the time, they wondered why  no one spoke of the inhabitants.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I would like to chat with Ole  and Johan for hours. I have often heard from hackers or founder of  alternative places that for a place to work, it is primarily down to the  own culture of the people who embody it. At Illutron, it seems to be  just that. Proof with the manifest below:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Manifesto 1.1</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Illutron  is a haven for innovative thinking between art and technology. The  physical location is a rusty barge in Copenhagen Harbour.<br />
Here submarines and space rockets are built. Scrapped industrial robots  are brought back to life. Here singing plants grow and classical music  plays together with electronic music.<br />
illutron is a space for adventures and experiments. Artistic and  technological frontiers are challenged. Experiments can be based on  intuition instead of reason.<br />
Here people are creators, not consumers. Here the audience are participants, not passive observers. Here anything can happen.<br />
Creative thinking emerges from below, as long as a fertile creative  environment is fostered, where small seeds can find nourishment and grow  roots and flower.<br />
Technological progress happens in dialog with the surrounding society  and refers to both the past and the future. Our art is a joint creative  process in a group, a dialog between the group members and with cultural  undercurrents in society. Art involves the audience, they become actors  in dialog with the work of art, with its story.<br />
Illutron offers collective illusions, fascinating illustrations and  blinding illuminations, embracing new inspirational stories in and about  the world.<br />
We make the works of art and source code available under Creative Commons. We encourage others to expand on our work.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Our art</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">* Fosters interaction with the audience<br />
* Is a living process and not a static product<br />
* Is based on recycled materials<br />
* Refers to its inspiration in society<br />
* Credits all involved (including the tea person)<br />
* Make the works of art and ny source code available under Creative Commons.<br />
* Encorage others to expand on the work, as long as Illutron is given credit.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">This  manifest may not be printed on dead trees, but must be in dialogue with  the times/our time and Illutrons members. If it takes on fixed and  recognisable form the project has stranded/run aground.</span></p>
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		<title>Startup Bootcamp, c&#8217;est parti !</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startup Bootcamp, here we go!
Translated in english bellow
J&#8217;ai rencontré Alex Farcet par l&#8217;intermédiaire de Franck Nourygat, l&#8217;un des 3 permanents du Startup Weekend qui s&#8217;est tenu à La Cantine. De passage à Paris, il ne restait à Alex que 2 mois avant le lancement du petit frère européen de Techstars : Startup Bootcamp.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">J&#8217;ai rencontré Alex Farcet par l&#8217;intermédiaire de Franck Nourygat, l&#8217;un des 3 <em>permanents</em> du <a href="http://paris.startupweekend.org/">Startup Weekend</a> qui s&#8217;est tenu à La Cantine. De passage à Paris, il ne restait à Alex que 2 mois avant le lancement du petit frère européen de <a href="http://www.techstars.org/">Techstars</a> : <a href="http://www.startupbootcamp.dk/">Startup Bootcamp</a>.<br />
Comme <a href="http://ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a> ou Techstars, Startup Bootcamp est un <em>accelerator</em>, c&#8217;est-à-dire un programme intense de développement de 10 jeunes boites sélectionnées parmi des centaines, qui vont vivre ensemble pendant 3 mois, entourées de s meilleurs &#8220;mentors&#8221; -coachs et références en terme de &#8220;business sucess story&#8221;, avec l&#8217;objectif de lever des fonds à la fin.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cela fait 2 ans qu&#8217;Alex en rêve, 6 mois qu&#8217;il rassemble les pointures du business. Il s&#8217;est adressé aux fondateurs de TechStars, c&#8217;était pour lui un gage de légitimité dans une Europe dite frileuse : &#8220;J&#8217;ai envoyé un long mail à David Cohen de Techstars, deux mois plus tard, je recevais une réponse. Une longue liste détaillée du process pour y arriver&#8221;. Puis Alex a passé 6 jours en immersion dans l&#8217;<em>accelerator </em> américain avant de créer Startup Bootcamp, 1ère version <em>franchisée</em> de Techstars, en Europe.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Emballée par son idée, billets d&#8217;avion en poche, je débarque à Copenhague.<br />
Nous y voila, lundi 16 Août 2010, dans les locaux du coworking space <a href="http://http://www.videnshuset.com/index.asp">videnshuset</a>, 10 startups ont rendez-vous avec Alex pour le Startup Bootcamp.<br />
Beaucoup des personnes présentes ont quitté leur job pour l&#8217;aventure de l&#8217;entrepreneuriat, elles tiennent un pari risqué quand on sait que seules 10% d&#8217;entre elles survivront.<br />
L&#8217;idée, voire le prototype son déjà en place, leur sélection parmi plus de 200 projets est un gage de qualité. Startupbootcamp va accélérer leur vie, vers le pire comme le meilleur. Au pire, elles échoueront à convaincre un investisseur, mais elles auront moins perdu de temps et d&#8217;argent que n&#8217;importe quelle autre startup isolée.<br />
Il y a comme une ambiance de 1er jour de classe. Assez sages et réservés, les participants s&#8217;observent. Très vite, Alex brise la glace, il parle vrai, il raconte son histoire et comment il en est arrivé là, il se livre à son auditoire comme un père à ses enfants, bien qu&#8217;il leur dise également : &#8220;je ne veux pas jouer la nounou, je ne veux pas être votre associé, je ne veux pas de <em>bullshit</em> non plus. La réussite de votre boite passe par la réussite du Startupbootcamp, vous êtes responsable du groupe entier&#8221;. La communauté est créée, une bienveillance s&#8217;installe et chacun pitch sa boite en 20 secondes, les critiques -constructives, fusent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">L&#8217;expression est importante, l&#8217;expérience des uns, la jeunesse des autres, tout se ressent dans le <em>pitch</em>. Un bon pitch n&#8217;assure en rien la solidité d&#8217;une startup mais c&#8217;est la clef qui ouvre à l&#8217;écoute, à l&#8217;intérêt des autres, c&#8217;est par le pitch qu&#8217;on  accède au  plus important : l&#8217;humain. C&#8217;est donc le 1er exercice à Startup Bootcamp. 24h plus tard, c&#8217;est devant 60 mentors que ça se passe! Tout va très vite, il n&#8217;y a que 3 mois.<br />
La salle est pleine de serial-entrepreneurs, de Venture Capitalists, de coachs et gourous de la technologie&#8230;J&#8217;observe les participants. Comment se défendent-ils dans cette <a href="http://www.startupbootcamp.dk/mentors/">jungle</a>? Pas mal du tout, les règles du jeu sont intégrées, chacun cherche celui qui deviendra son mentor, &#8220;let&#8217;s network !&#8221; lance Alex.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ils vont passer 3 mois à travailler dans les meilleures conditions : un programme accompagné et progressif en 3 temps, &#8220;shape, prototype, sell&#8221; ; à la clef, un rendez-vous avec plus de 100 investisseurs pour le grand décollage et enfin, +3.3500 euros par personne en poche contre 5 à 10% du capital.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Vous trouvez ça cher? Ces boites sont toutes jeunes, aujourd&#8217;hui, elles ne valent pas grand chose et cet argent, c&#8217;est déjà beaucoup, c&#8217;est ce qu&#8217;Alex appelle le <em>get you going cash</em>, juste ce qu&#8217;il faut pour n&#8217;avoir que son projet en tête. Au delà de l&#8217;aspect financier, elles vont surtout bénéficier d&#8217;un intense soutien de la part de <em>successuful businessman</em>, d&#8217;un accès à un réseau  précieux et d&#8217;un coup de projecteur inespéré pour elles. <em>Money is good, smart money is better</em> : l&#8217;argent ne fait pas tout, avoir des personnes de renom et d&#8217;expérience engagées dans son idée de boite pour l&#8217;emmener vers la prospérité, c&#8217;est ça la &#8220;smart money&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Arrêtons de complexer face à la Silicon Valley et faisons avec nos différences, tel est le message d&#8217;Alex et la vision que nous partageons chez <a href="http://siliconsentier.org/">Silicon Sentier</a>.<br />
Comme il a pu l&#8217;écrire sur son <a href="http://www.startupbootcamp.dk/blog/">blog</a>, revenant sur les excuses que nous nous donnions pour justifier l&#8217;assoupissement européenne : &#8220;Avons-nous les talents ? Avons-nous les investisseurs ? Avons-nous le marché?  et blablabla(&#8230;). Nous avons un marché fragmenté et polyglotte? Nous savons comment conquérir les marché internationaux depuis  toujours ! Les talents ne sont pas concentrés sur un espace particulier ? Nous savons comment attirer et manager les profiles internationaux ! Nos <em>Business Angels</em> ne sont pas actifs? Nous serons meilleurs au <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping">boostrapping</a>! &#8220;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Je suis séduite à la fois par l&#8217;humilité avec laquelle le personnage porte ce projet lourd de responsabilités, mais également, j&#8217;ai l&#8217;intime conviction que notre rencontre n&#8217;est pas fortuite. Et si, plutôt que de monter un simple incubateur à la Bourse, Silicon Sentier devait créer un programme intense d&#8217;accélération? Nous qui avons accueilli le 1er StartupWeekend français et en avons compris tous les bienfaits, nous qui avons monté ensuite le <a href="http://artgameweekend.com/">ArtGame Weekend</a> duquel 9 applications dont 3 téléchargeables et jouables sont sorties, comment ne pas y avoir pensé plus tôt? Ces événements sont des <em>beta</em> d&#8217;accélérateurs : l&#8217;émulation par le groupe, le temps condensé, l&#8217;aide des mentors, le jury final, la médiatisation&#8230; Tout cela démultiplie les capacités de création. Mentors, manifestez-vous, ça va décoller à Paris également&#8230;!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.startupbootcamp.dk/">Startup Bootcamp</a> en images :</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I met Alex Farcet through Nourygat Franck, one of three <em>permanent</em> at the <a href="http://paris.startupweekend.org/">Startup Weekend</a> held at <a href="http://lacantine.org/">La Cantine</a>. On a trip to Paris, Alex only had two months left before the launch of the European’s little brother of Techstars: <a href="http://www.startupbootcamp.dk/">Startup Bootcamp</a>. Like <a href="http://ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a> and <a href="http://www.techstars.org/">Techstars</a>, Startup Bootcamp is an <em>accelerator,</em> that is to say, an intensive development of 10 young businesses selected from hundreds that will live together for three months, surrounded by the best mentors, coaches and references in terms of &#8220;business success story”, with the objective of raising funds at the end.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">It has been two years Alex dreams about it, 6 months since he started gathering the best of the business. He spoke to the founders of Techstars, for him a guarantee of legitimacy in a chilly Europe: &#8220;I sent a long mail to David Cohen of Techstars. Two months later, I received a reply. A long list of detailed process to get there. Alex then spent six weeks immersed in the U.S. accelerator before setting Startup Bootcamp, the first <em>franchised</em> version of Techstar in Europe.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Excited by the idea, tickets in hand, I arrived in Copenhagen. Here we are, Monday, August 16, 2010, in the local coworking space <a href="http://http://www.videnshuset.com/index.asp">videnshuset</a>, 10 startups have an appointment with Alex for the Startup Bootcamp. Many have left their job for the adventure of entrepreneurship, a high gamble when you know that only 10% of them will survive.<br />
The idea, even the prototype, is already in place, a selection from more than 200 projects is a guarantee of quality. Startup Bootcamp will accelerate their life towards the worst or the best. Worst comes worst, they will fail to convince an investor, but they will have wasted less time and money than any isolated startup.<br />
There is a first day of class’ feeling. Quiet and reserved, the participants observe each other. Soon, Alex breaks the ice, he speaks “truth”, he tells his story and how it got there, he engages his audience like a father to his children, although he also says: &#8220;I do not want to play the nanny, I do not want to be your partner, I do not want bullshit either. The success of your business will come through the success of Startup Bootcamp, you are responsible for the entire group.” The community is created; a good will is installed and each one pitches his business in 20 seconds, the constructive critics fusing.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">The expression is important, the experience of some, the youth of others comes through in the <em>pitch.</em> A good pitch does not guarantee the soundness of a startup but it is the key that opens to listening and to the interests of others; it is via the pitch you access the most important: the human. So it is the first exercise of Startup Bootcamp. 24hrs later, it happens in front of 60 mentors! Everything goes very fast, there are only three months.<br />
The room is full of serial-entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, coaches and gurus of technology&#8230; I observe the participants. How do they defend themselves in this jungle? Not bad at all, the rules of the game are digested, each seeking someone who would become his mentor, &#8220;let&#8217;s network!&#8221; says Alex.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">They will spend three months working in the best conditions, with a progressive program in 3 parts: &#8220;shape, prototype, sell&#8221;. At the end, a meeting with more than 100 investors for the big launch, and finally, + 3.3500 euros per person against 5-10% of the capital.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">You find it expensive? These businesses are very young, they are not worth much at the moment and that money is already a lot: it is what Alex calls the <em>get you going cash,</em> just enough to have nothing but your project in mind. Beyond the financial aspect, they will mainly benefit from intensive support from <em>successful businessman,</em> access to a valuable network and an unexpected spotlight on them. <em>Money is good, smart money is better:</em> money is not everything, having prominent, experienced persons involved in your business’ idea to take it to prosperity, that&#8217;s what is &#8220;smart money&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Let’s stop comparing with Silicon Valley and do with our differences, that is the message from Alex and the vision we share at Silicon Sentier. As he wrote on his blog, referring to the reasons we give ourselves to justify the European slumber: &#8220;Do we have the talent? Do we have the investment dry powder? Do we have the market&#8221; and on and on(&#8230;). We&#8217;ve got a fragmented, multi-lingual market? We know how to conquer  international markets from the get-go!  The talent isn&#8217;t concentrated in  one place?  We know how to attract and (remotely) manage international  talent!  Our angels aren&#8217;t as active?  We&#8217;re better at boostrapping! &#8220;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I am fascinated by the humility with which the character runs this heavy responsibilities’ project, but also, I firmly believe that our meeting is not coincidental. And if, rather than set up a simple incubator at <em>La Bourse</em> in Paris, <a href="http://siliconsentier.org">Silicon Sentier</a> created an intense program of acceleration? We, who have hosted the first French StartupWeekend and have understood all the benefits, we, who have then organised <a href="http://artgameweekend.com/">ArtGame Weekend</a> from which 9 applications -3 downloadable and playable- came out, how could we have not thought of it sooner? These events are <em>beta</em> accelerators: emulation by the group, restrained time, the mentors’ help, the final jury, the coverage by the medias&#8230; All this multiplies the capacity of creation. Mentors, get ready and show yourselves, it will also take off in Paris&#8230;!</span></p>
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