Starbucks n’a plus qu’à bien se tenir. Café Coffee Day, une chaîne indienne de 1 300 cafés est à ses trousses. Les variétés sont différentes mais la qualité du café qu’on y boit est comparable. L’avantage, paradoxal quand on se rappelle que le quartier général de la chaîne américaine se trouve à Seattle, pas loin […]
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How Innovators Get Funded – Part One – Francis Pisani
Entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers are crucial for turning ideas into innovations. The same goes for investors, people prepared to invest in risky projects. Most start-ups would have a hard time launching without them, or at least reaching a point where they become relevant. The good news is that innovators are beginning to find investors, no […]
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Social Media’s new Generation should worry Facebook – Francis Pisani
What if Facebook’s long-term outlook is hindered by the fact that it began on computers and not on mobile phones? This is something you start to wonder when you look at three Asian companies that have, between them, nearly 400 million users. And they are still growing. The difference between them and the social networking […]
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Taxibeat: A Greek Startup Makes Finding a Cab Easier and More Reliable – Francis Pisani
There were a lot of good startups at LeWeb . Startups hailing from northern Europe, Canada and the United States … but the most impressive startup was from Greece. Taxibeat, developed in Athens, helps users find taxis in cities major cities, from Paris, São Paulo and Rio to Bucharest and Oslo – with more and more cities being […]
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LeWeb shows part of the Innovation World’s Diversity, but needs more Southern Exposure – Francis Pisani
The best thing about LeWeb (December 3-6, Paris) is the the huge amount of countries represented. The 3,500 attendees came from “almost 70 countries,” says event co-founder Géraldine Le Meur, who founded the conference – now in its ninth year along with her husband, Loïc. The couple, originally from France, are based in California.Conferences are a vital part of […]
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Chocolate and Creative Diasporas – Francis Pisani
In today’s world of innovation, creative diasporas are everywhere. I saw one of the best examples of how the entrepreneurial spirit drives them in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta, two French entrepreneurs based in the Vietnamese city for several years, don’t make mobile phones or disruptive apps. They make chocolate. […]
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China’s Social Entrepreneurship, Part Two: Relevant to Us – Francis Pisani
Social entrepreneurship helps Chinese citizens fight social problems without resorting to politics. Perhaps we can learn something from them.In my last post, I profiled Isaac Mao, who is building a platform to bring his IT and business skills to the service of social activists.We-Impact approaches things from a different angle. The Shanghai-based company offers organizations a […]
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Social Entrepreneurship In China, Part One: Isaac Mao, Advocating Sharing – Francis Pisani
One of the biggest surprises I’ve had recently was seeing the importance of social entrepreneurship in China. In a country that is often described as combining the worst of the capitalist and communist worlds, I found people who are trying to change both, and now. Currently there are few in number, but they are part […]
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Enswers: Korea’s “Google for Video” – Francis Pisani
With Imideo – immediate video – you only need a single still image to find what video it comes from, and then find and play that video. Shazam does this with audio and Google does it with text, but moving images are more difficult – more difficult for everyone except Enswers (‘E’ for entertainment), a […]
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The Impact of China’s Population on the Future of IT – Francis Pisani
The 1,300,000,000 population of the Chinese nation is seen by foreigners as an enormous potential market. Since the labor there is cheaper than developed nations, companies line up to manufacture and sell there. But this is changing, and the implications for information technologies are complex and, perhaps, surprising.The size of the market won’t change – […]