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  • A personal interview (in French)

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    Sébastien Flury

    The interviewer”. Stan is a friendly guy, passionate about Public Relations video blogger and former journalist. He is blogging (in French) about what’s happening in Western Switzerland and sharing his thoughts about social media, entrepreneurship, etc. He’s a passionate guy with a extrem talent to make people comfortable… So I’ve easily given away: I gave…

  • 10 questions to the founder of the Festival of Media's Hot Company of the Year… 2012!

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    Sébastien Flury

    Last week, the Festival of Media Global 2013 happened in Montreux. I was fortunate enough to be invited as an official blogger (again!) and I had the chance to interview Mr. Risicato, winner of the startup competition M.A.P. (but in 2012) with his startup VideoHub. Many thanks to Anthony to answer my few questions. Here…

  • A unique chance to network with top media executives

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    Sébastien Flury

    Did you know that one of the biggest media event of the world will happen in Lausanne area end of April? As well as I know that there are many things that I don’t know, this event hasn’t reached my ears… until Eileen asked me if I was interested to attend as an official blogger! Of course,…

  • You'll fail… so what?

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    Sébastien Flury

    funded startups. But how many get financing? One on ten? If we take these (probably wrong) numbers as a basis to evaluate your success chance, we can assume that you have a 3-4% of beeing financially OK with the company you’re putting in so many efforts. OK, here, I’m consciously neglecting lifestyle business (you’re bulding…

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    Where to get the skills you need for your startup journey

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    Sébastien Flury

    Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI – the federal agency of Switzerland) has decided in 2012 to split the national training program into regional programs, supervised by CTI… As well as the academic entrepreneurial programs (venture ideas and venture challenge) are still managed by venturelab, the formerly called Venture Plan program has stopped in 2012. Thanks to the…

  • SBB.connect, an awesome idea! BUT…

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    Sébastien Flury

    SBB/CFF launched a new mobile application to connect rail travelers. The basic idea is to let you check-in for all your trips and… BOOM: you see who is in the place or in the train (Facebook and twitter connections, random people), and you can even chat with them. As well as I didn’t put much value…

  • 10 hot things you didn't know about e-commerce

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    Sébastien Flury

    At LeWeb, I’ve mainly met people rather than listening to keynotes and attending workshops (even if some of them were amazing… it’s unfortunately difficult to duplicate itself!). One of the workshop I have listened to was hold by LaPoste.fr and was about e-commerce. Here after you’ll find some key learning from this workshop! Behind an…

  • Is wine the new goldmine?

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    Sébastien Flury

    In Western Switzerland, the new goldmine seems to be wine, especially wine subscription. In the recent months, I’ve heard about 3 local startups (Vinoabo, Up-To-Wine, Wiine.me)  tackling this opportunity (and I’m sure I’m not aware of many, many other ones – from traditional wine resellers to other startups). The principe is simple: you subscribe to…

  • 7 tips for a successful social media campaign

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    Sébastien Flury

    Last week was LeWeb conference happening in Paris. Again, a lot of interesting talks and amazing people to meet during these 3 crazy busy days. Alexis Thobellem, Global Digital Manager at Evian and one of the guy involved in the amazing “Roller Babies » video clip success (60M + views by now), gave a talk about…

  • HOW TO get press coverage for your startup?

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    Sébastien Flury

    When you’re starting your awesome startup, you’re facing many challenges and you have a lot of assumptions you have to test. For instance, you often don’t know if your Minimum Viable Product will find its market fit (OK, you can meltdown this a bit thanks to customer development), if you’ll be good enough to motivate…