As is usual when I take a long break from writing, my blog posts end up becoming insanely long. Take it as you will, but I’ve tried to make it as coherent a post as possible. P.S. this is a post written under de cover of my “leave of absence,” which means I still write, [...]
Where does most radical innovation come from? Where, as an individual, can you expect to get plenty of access to that type of information? If your answer isn’t universities, please let me know! As promised, I’ll be focussing more on innovation on Tech IT Easy these coming months, and you can be sure that my [...]
I usually don’t ‘steal’ posts from others -especially without adding any value-adding comment, but I couldn’t help sharing this one – found on Richard’s blog thanks to Twitter (follow him). Here’s a very inspiring slideshow by Index Ventures VC & founder of Open Coffee Saul Klein: The slideshow speaks for itself, doesn’t it? And even if you [...]
In chess, a gambetto – say it with an Italian accent, consists in sacrificing a piece at the beginning of a game to gain a competitive position on the exchequer – for example through the control of the center of the chessboard or one of the long diagonals. Getting back to business (we’ll get back [...]
In response to Ouriel who claims he found the best jazz piano – voice extract ever, here’s Tuck & Patti (I saw them live in Paris @ Vincennes floral park in 2006, and they’re just amazing) performing a jazzy medley of bluesy Jimmy Hendrix’s Castle Made of Sand and Little Wing. This is probably the [...]
This another part in the saga of my thoughts on ‘Grinding it out‘, an account of Mcdonalds, written by Ray Kroc. I’m about 3/4 into the 210-page book. Let me start with a disclaimer: ‘Grinding it out’ is a book written to promote the McDonalds way and aimed at motivating existing staff and operators, as [...]
Tech IT Easy is dead, long live Tech IT Easy! Today is our Independence Day: this blog is now fully accessible through www.techiteasy.org. All existing jeremyfain.wordpress.com/something trackbacks are automatically redirected to www.techiteasy.org/something. Our search engine referencing might suffer for a couple weeks, but since I noticed we have quite a captive audience (people coming back [...]
Yesterday, while browsing Facebook, I decided to test my market traction: I turned my availability details from “in a a relationship” to “single”. Just to check. I was far from imagining that it would put me back in the poker game so quickly. Today, although I hardly checked my personal emails and mobile voice mail, [...]
” Message from Jeremy : For those new to Tech IT Easy, who could obviously not remember the initial announcement, I have invited my friend and fellow Alexandre Lucas to help me try to provide you, dear readership, with everyday better analyses on software, telecom & Internet trends. Alex’s mission statement is basically to go [...]
I found through Cyril Attias‘s blog (in French) a funny website named MyHeritage. MyHeritage has a buzz feature named MyHeritage Face Recognition, that tells you which celebrities looks like you most. As far as I’m concerned, I’m not especially proud of the results – except for Dudi Balsar, an Israeli lawyer and model that according [...]
I’m very impressed with what IBM Research Lab based in Haifa, Israel, just came out with: an Ajax-powered web app that allows non developers to build form services. I’ve been playing with IBM Development Engagement Service (lousy name though) and indeed, built in 3 simple & natural steps: Name your application and describe it (max. [...]
I had recently posted a few excerpts of an interview, given at a venture capital event in Paris, of Bernard Charlès, the CEO of Dassault Systèmes. This time this post is about Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in product life cycle management (PLM) solutions aimed soon to turn to B-to-C 3D environments. An public company [...]
Unlike in the software industry, 0-default in terms of integration is the quality standard of aeronautic giants Airbus, Boeing, Dassault, Cessna and Embraer. It takes thousands of suppliers to manufacture a plane. And guess what? Suppliers don’t immediately get paid for their work. Airbus, for instance, has built risk sharing partnerships with all its suppliers [...]
Whilst taking a look at my Silicon Valley study trip announcement published a few days ago, Conor O’Neill from Web 2.0 Ireland, an excellent blog for those interested in the developments of technological start ups in Ireland, decided he too was ready to lead such an initiative if you people were willing to join (group [...]
Kari (TeliaSonera) and I (Delta Airlines) have complained about these companies doing a very, very bad job at treating their customers well. Just for them to know: a company without a customer is a failed company. If there’s one thing entrepreneurs should do, even before cranking a decent product, it well is in showing respect [...]
