Attending your first conference? Take advantage of your position with solid branding

The following post is sponsored by online printing & design company MOO. For more information about our Sponsored Content policy, click here.  Thanks to Rudebaguette and MOO, get your free pack of 50 business cards here. First times can be stressful events, especially if you’re a startup planning to attend your first conference. Leaving a great first […]

Why you should care about the LeWeb Startup Competition: the Winners always raise money.

Why you should care about the LeWeb Startup Competition: the Winners always raise money.

LeWeb is only a week away, and those who plan ahead have already begun looking at the Speaker Schedule to figure out when to listen & when to network. Personally, I’ve blocked off most of the first morning to sit and listen to speakers – it’s a pretty strong line-up to start – but I’ve […]

500 Startups’ Warmgun conference recap: we’re all designers

500 Startups’ Warmgun conference recap: we’re all designers

The following is a guest post from Michael Ferranti, a marketer and product guy living and working in San Francisco, USA. You can follow him on Twitter @ferrantim where your tweets in English and français are welcome, or on his blog. For the last three years, a highlight of my year has been a design conference called Warmgun organized by […]

Smart connectivity, video as a service and more take center stage at DigiWorld Summit November 19-21st

One of Europe’s longest running (35 years!) and most impactful conferences is getting ready to kick-off this November 19th in Montpellier. The DigiWorld Summit is organized each year by iDATE, one of the world’s leading think tanks and research organizations focusing on telecoms, media and internet technology. Having focused on the theme  ‘Game changers’ – Mobile-Cloud-Big […]

The Maturing of HTML5: 5 Lessons from HTML5 Developers’ Conference

During his conference Keynote, Intel’s VP Christos Georgiopoulos brought up the Gartner Growth Cycle and ventured that we had finally entered the era of productivity for HTML5. If the activities, professionalism, and presentations delivered during the HTML5 Developers’ Conference are any indicator, Christos is spot on in his assessment.  This spring the conference was held […]

Founder Pierre Carde on Game Connection Europe’s big, innovative 2013 edition

Since 2001, Game Connection has been one of the top events, if not the top event, focusing on the B2B side of the games industry. As a result, it offers a perfect environment for not only networking and connecting with other professionals in the industry, but also creates an environment where actual business (partnerships, deals, […]

APIs & the future of software on the top of the program at this year’s APIdays on December 4/5th

FABERNOVEL AND WEBSHELL are once again brining their highly successful APIdays conference to Paris which offers participants the opportunity to better understand paradigms behind APIs as well as get up-to-date on the latest thinking on the future of Software through APIs, on Cloud, Big Data and Internet of Things. As the API community has continued to […]

Disrupt Europe: Will the Hardware revolution take roots in Europe?

Lots of people complained about Disrupt Europe as sponsors being too influential or the sales focus. The fact is the Startup Battlefield was controversial, some of the startups having already raised money, one of them up to $8 mil. Then there was this tweet where Michael Arrington proposed to not choose a winner for this […]

USAWeek to bring high-level VCs & Business Angels to Europe

Speaking of business opportunities in Europe, The European American Entreprise Council is organizing the first edition of USAWeek Europe, a must go to event to be held at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain from November 11 to 14. The California-based Council is run by leading executives and advisors with a broad experience and know how […]

10 Tips for building a killer startup, according to Moshi Monsters CEO Michael Acton Smith

The following is a guest post from Mike Sottak, President of Wire Island International. You can follow him on Twitter at @WiredIslandPR Everybody loves Top 10 lists so it only seemed fitting that the Dublin Web Summit included a version of its own, aptly aimed at the entrepreneurial crowd. Playfully presented by kid’s entertainment ‘rock star’ […]