Archive for December, 2007
Virality: independence from Google
With a market share of 60% in the US, and reaching 90% in my home country (France), and while many websites receive more than 50% of their visits from Search Engines, the independence from Google is a true concern : Jobetudiant.net is clearly very dependent from Google and might always be… Most of our new [...]
Raising funds : less is more
When you raise funds for your start-up, the valuation question [FR] is key. Despite what you can read pretty much everywhere, you’re goal shouldn’t only be to have the biggest “pre”. First, this can easily be tricked by some obscure mechanisms that you’re VC will require if you want an higher valuation (Ratchet, bonds…). Second, [...]
Join us (me!)
It’s not a scoop to say that I am trying to build a new startup, here in San Francisco. Contrary to my previous venture, Jobetudiant.net, I do not want to be alone on this one. The main reason being that it’s going to be BIG! Anyway, for now, I am looking for a CTO who [...]
Google’s biggest asset
Google’s market capitalization is now well over $200Bn, and this will probably last. First, this is clearly the consequence of Google’s strategy to be actually internet’s infrastructure. Google and internet’s fates are more than ever related. Then, it’s also the valuation of Google’s biggest asset : it’s data!
Referencement : bilan 2007
La fin de l’année annonce l’époque des bilans. Sur 2007, Jobetudiant.net a subi de plein fouet un déclassement dans Google. Pourquoi? Pas facile de savoir, en revanche, la suppression des échanges de liens a amélioré les choses 2 mois après. Vous verrez sur le graphique ci-contre la courbe du nombre de visiteur par les moteurs [...]
Here comes winter
It’s been a week that the video “Here Comes another bubble” has been circulating through the web and blogs. Check the video :
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Writing about Jack Dorsey and Twitter
First, I must say that I am using twitter on a daily -if not hourly- basis : I’ve even integrated it to l’Ouvre-Boite, as you can see just below the header. It’s a new approach to online communication between people : one-to-many, asynchronous and efficient (short) and a very well built tool with API’s and [...]
Amazon EC2 et S3
Amazon fournit de très nombreux outils pour webmasters. Parmi les plus “emblématiques” on trouve Simple Storage Service (S3) et Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Dans les deux cas, l’accent est mis sur la flexibilité et la qualité de l’infrastructure : vous etes chez Amazon!
Teen Blog platforms: mature?
It’s only Tuesday and yet, 2 very big blogging platform have been put for sale : LiveJournal which has actually already been sold to SUP and Skyblog, the biggest European blogging platform/network. Correct me if I am wrong but these platforms are a lot comparable and I am sure that we could get some lessons [...]
RSS : is it over?
One of my favorite french bloggers, Eric -from La Croix Rousse, not from Lyon ;p- thinks that Feeds will never get any attention from the public : I totally agree and I think that it is actually a good thing. RSS (and/or atom) is a technology… nothing like a product, and “the rest of us” [...]
