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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 […]
Rude VC: Tech Designers – Hurry over to London by July 10
No, this is not an encouragement to would-be fiscal exiles or pigeons. Nor do I have any specific conference or startup networking event in mind as I write this. In fact, the reason has nothing to do with tech, at least not in a directly obvious way. It’s about an art exhibition. Specifically, Shiro Kuramata, […]
Rude VC: Silicon Valley’s secret sauce
Over the past few weeks in this space, inspired by Fleur Pellerin’s current government initiative to replicate Silicon Valley, I’ve recapped some of the history of the region and reconsidered the wisdom of attempts to reproduce the Silicon Valley model elsewhere. I submit that trying to imitate Silicon Valley is futile. However, France’s government and […]
UXD4Startups announces 1st UX-dedicated event in Paris Jan. 15th
January 15th, the shared office space LeChaudron will be host to one of Paris’ first English-lange UX-oriented events – UXD4Startups. Organized by notable Paris UX Designer Olivier Desmoulin, Skimm UX/Product Designer Amine Bellakrid, & Skimm Visual Designer Christine Tong, the evening event will welcome 3 notable UX speakers. Sponsored by Fabernovel, dotCloud, and Stupeflix, the […]
Apple purchases Swiss clock trademark for $21 million
Hans Hilfiker of SBB national railways designed the analog alarm clock for your iPhone back in 1944. True, Apple didn’t come into existence until April 1, 1976-but today, Apple avoids a lengthy and costly litigation process with the Swiss railway in a $21 million purchase. This is creating a lot of buzz on the internet partly because […]