Entrepreneur
Learning Patience
Entrepreneurship is all about time management. Many people say money is the scarcest resource… It’s actually not as scarce as time. It is not bad to have no money, if you have time to pay your bills, employees and suppliers.
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Getting an E2 Visa to work in the USA
I started the the application in June 2008, and I received my E2 visa today… it took roughly 5 months to get it! The E2 visa is the option I chose to work in the US as a foreigner and entrepreneur/investor.
First, I have to repeat that the ‘rules’ around this visa are all but precise. No [...]
Busy Week at Notifixious
Even though I was stuck in France way longer than expected, the nights (thx jetlag!) have been pretty productive and I have a great load of good news to share with you!
Visa : it should be fine… so hoepfully, I’ll be back in sunny California by the end of the week, with my precious E2 [...]
Keep the risk-taking spirit
The financial world is collapsing and several start-up are already taking measures to cope with the crisis. I am taking a few days of, outside of California and it’s a great time to think a little bit about it. I brought with me some books and among them “Once you’re good, twice you’re lucky” by [...]
Hackathon @ SixApart!
I just spent a full day in SixApart offices, here in San Francisco and that was great! As you know, we’re working on several plugins for most of the blogging platforms. Joe who initially helped me with the MovableType plugin has some other projects (understand for which he’s paid) and couldn’t finish it. Bad news [...]
Startup Booster FACCSF
Last spring, Notifixious Inc was selected by the French American Chamber of Commerce, here in San Francisco to be part of the candidates for its Startup Booster. The Booster is a 8 weeks program where entrepreneurs in very early stage companies can receive mentoring from experts in the various domains that entrepreneurs will have to [...]
GetSatisfaction : better customer service
It’s no secret, even though many large companies tend to forget it (ATT, read this!), a good Customer Service is a key success factor for many startups. On the web, your users are alone, so you need to make sure they don’t feel alone : help them, answer their questions and listen to their suggestions [...]
Notifixious use case #2 : monitoring search results!
It’s just the begining for Notifixious and I am already happy to see that some people are making great feature request and are using Notifixious in ways I would not have expected : monitoring search results!
Most of “modern” search engines are now providing RSS/Atom feeds for their results, such as Summize (now Twitter Search), Technorati, [...]
Notifixious is up… and running!
Everything is in the title So, yes, after a few weeks of silence, Notifixious‘ new version is now online, up and running : go check out, you do not need invites anymore!
The users from the early days will notice that we removed some functionalities. That’s true, but 1) less is more and 2) it gives [...]
