All posts in SoLoMo

Tigerlily teams up with Insert to bring a truly SoLoMo experience to street-side advertising

Tigerlily has always been at the forefront of digital marketing: they were one of the first certified Facebook marketing partners in France, their services provide analytics value on top of Facebook & Twitter advertising, and they also presented their vision of the SoLoMo experience just last October. Previously just a video, which integrated Apple’s Passbook, […]

As SMS begins to die, InZAir is adding new dimensions to text messaging

As SMS begins to die, InZAir is adding new dimensions to text messaging

We announced earlier this week that SMS has perhaps hit its peak, as other smartphone apps begin to rise; there’s no better app to talk about than InZAir, which launched last December its messaging application in order to add two new dimensions to text messaging: location & time. While group messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, […]

Can France do Social?

Can France do Social?

In my most recent efforts to understand how to take a city and turn it into a startup city, I’ve been toying with an idea given to me by Jason Calacanis: I posed him the question of how European cities could create an ecosystem on the same level as (note: not “replicating”) the Silicon Valley. […]

3 Takeaways from Deloitte's Fast 500

This past week, Deloitte released it’s annual list of the 500 fastest growing EMEA technology companies, and the results are pretty interesting. The most interesting point is probably that Logic Bilisim, the top growing technology company with %28617 gr0wth, is from Turkey. I thought I’d take look at the list and find some takeaways that could […]

Do French Entrepreneurs have Enough Experience?

The startup mentality is great: “this is wrong; I’m going to fix it.” This kind of innovative thinking disrupts how we travel, talk to friends, look at data, keep track of fans, spread music, and more…. In the startup world, quite often we see former employees of big companies creating a startup because their experience […]