On December 13, 2011, really great ambiance, just *full*!
Pictures and videos taken with my new iPhone 4S, not bad ;-)
Red Hot Chili Peppers concert in Zurich, Switzerland
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Countdown started for Saint Barth 2012 ;-)
So, in exactly 2 months (yyyeeeesss), we will be in Saint Barth for our 10th stay there (celebrate!), our 15 years of marriage anniversary (celebrate!), and my 40 years (celebrate!).
Wow, the restaurants selection will be tough!
Villa for the first time “on the beach” (one of the few possibility on the island) ;-)
4th time at LeWeb…
…just realized that it is my 4th time at LeWeb conference (2005, 2006, 2007, 2011).
Funny to have a look back at “Les Blogs 2.0” (yes it was called in this way in 2005) with some “known faces” ;-) And … 350 participants!
Loic LeMeur!
Anina, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble
Jeff Clavier, Rodrigo Sepulveda, Dave Siffry, David Hornik
Souvenir, souvenir :-)
On my way to LeWeb11 conference in Paris
So, it’s time this year to go again to the biggest European Internet conference, LeWeb’11, in Paris with Laurent. 3’268 participants are now registered for the conference, wow.
Topics this years around: SOLOMO, Social-Local-Mobile
Some of the interesting speakers:
- Mike McCue (CEO Flipboard)
- Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman Google)
- Joanna Shields (VP & Marketing Director EMEA Facebook)
- Axel Dauchez (CEO Deezer)
- Kevin Systrom (CEO Instagram)
- Allen Blue (Co-Founder & Vice President of Product Management LinkedIn)
- Dennis Crowley (Co-Founder & CEO Foursquare) with Scoble
- George Whitesides (CEO Virgin Galactic)
- Money Panel moderated by Jonathan Goodwin, CEO & Partner J Goodwin & Co LLP, with:
- Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
- Harry Nelis, Partner, Accel Partners
- Danny Rimer, Partner, Index Ventures
- Eric Archambeau, General Partner, Wellington Partners
- Phil Libin (CEO Evernote)
- Marissa Mayer (VP Product Management Google)
- George Colony (Chairman & CEO, Forrester Research)
- Panel “How is Social Local Mobile changing enterprise” moderated by: Paul Papadimitriou, VP & Analyst, Constellation Research, with:
- Nigel Beck, Vice President, Business Development and M&A Social Software, IBM
- Auren Hoffman, CEO, Rapleaf
- JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist, Salesforce.com
- Plus: Om Malik, Niklas Zennstrom, etc.
And the LeWeb’11 Official Party by Deezer on Thursday evening at … Le Carrousel du Louvre! Outch :-)
So, I’m quite sure, we will a quite intensive time!
Dropbox in Forbes
via Forbes.com
As a happy customer (50GB plan) of Dropbox since years now, I was very interested by this article in Forbes. Some insights (even if I encourage you to read the full article):
- Dropbox has today 50 million users, one new user per second joining
- 96% of the users pay nothing
- 325 million files saved per day
- Steve Jobs/Apple wanted to acquire Dropbox in 2009 for a nine-digit price
- 2008: 9 employees. 200k customers
- 2010: 14 employees, 2 million customers
- Revenue 2011: $240 million, already profitable, 70 employees
- Revenue 2012: even if they would not sign one single new customer, their sales will double
- Dropbox started with $15k from Y Combinator
- 1st VC round from Sequoia of $1.2 million
- VC round in 2008, $7.2 million raised
- VC round in August 2011, $250 million raised with a valuation of around $4 billion, VCs participating: Index Ventures (lead), Sequoia, Greylock, Benchmark, Accel, Goldman Sachs and RIT Capital Partners
- Competitors perceived: Apple iCloud, Google Drive
Impressive story, wow…
Visit the zoo this Sunday…
With an August weather…just crazy!
"Perfect Pairs" photo contest
Just to inform you (hope I’m not bothering…) that I’m participating to a photo contest organized by SmugMug and BayPhotoLab with an unusual topic: "Perfect Pairs" (they are celebrating their partnership).
Have a look at the submissions (already 900!), some of them are really good.
I have submitted 3 pictures from our last Winter trip to Saint Barth in February.
I you like one of them, you can help me and vote (comment, Facebook or Twitter) after having clicked on the picture below. And if you don’t like them, just forget this post ;-)
Saint Barth Winter skies
Two columns by night in Saint Barth
Tender moment of Mother & Son in Saint Barth
Saint Barth Summer 2011 – Day 15
So, we are back at home, uneventful trip back, all flights on time :-)
We almost couldn’t sleep in the flight Saint Martin – Paris, so now completely jetlagged, arrggghhh….
Last pictures, taken from the plane!
Saint Barth Summer 2011 – Day 14
Wednesday
So, yesterday (Wednesday) was our last full day in Saint Barth, whole morning at Saline, again. Very breezy, quite a lot of seaweeds on the beach, less in the water ;-) Crazy how this evolved within 2 days!
Thursday
Today, we are flying back to France, holidays are over! Almost 24 hours of travel, brrr… We were again at Le Gaiac yesterday evening, just great moment and the right place to "close" our stay in Saint Barth.
Saint Barth Summer 2011 – Day 13
Wow, writing this post from the terrace, protected from the heavy rain showers, eating a banana ice cream from "Le Petit Deauville". So, no beach today, as we went for shopping this morning (very breezy), and had a good lunch at Le Repaire.
Open air cinema
So, back to one event on Sunday evening: we were for the first time at the Open air cinema (AJOE in Lorient), which was a great experience (movie was X-Men the Origins, in French ;-). First you have to take a chair and to choose the place where you want to put your chair, very funny (see below). The sky was enough clear – almost full moon – to see a lot of stars. I was quite disturb by this nice spectacle in the sky beside the movie itself!!
Villa nightly shots
I have also done some pictures by night from the villa in the last days. As a reminder, I took these pictures at 11pm, i.e. it was fully dark ;-)
