{"id":31472,"date":"2015-11-10T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=31472"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:23:18","slug":"web-summit-2015-10-things-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/11\/web-summit-2015-10-things-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Summit 2015: 10 things you need to know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Web Summit, also called \u201cthe Davos of geeks\u201d (Bloomberg) welcomed 42000 people from 134 countries, 2141 startups, 1000 investors, 1231 journalists, almost 200,000 tweets and of course, a dozen sheep! <\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31473 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/imm1-e1447168176819.png\" alt=\"imm1\" width=\"680\" height=\"449\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>1) \u00a02015 changes, learning from 5 years Web Summit<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>650+ meetings during mentor hours for investors to advise startups on their challenges<\/li>\n<li>Startup University: a tiny stage for startups to question speakers about critical issues. The \u201cYoung, brilliant and underground 23: meet the leaders of today\u201d with William LeGate, Rachel Fox and Riley Ennis was a real success. They shared a couple of tips such as: \u201cwith investors, make it about you rather than money\u201d and \u201cyour personal brand is what people say when you leave the room.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>2) Paddy Cosgrave takes over the world<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After the Web Summit and Collision (US), Paddy Cosgrave and his team have decided to take over the world with web conferences. In 2016, four major events will take place: RISE in Hong Kong, SURGE in Bengaluru, Collision in New Orleans and Web Summit in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>3) 10,000 free tickets for female entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">10,000 female entrepreneurs will be invited as guests to Paddy Cosgrave\u2019s teams conferences in America, Hong Kong, India and of course, Lisbon. If you\u2019d like to invite a female entrepreneur, just send her an invitation via <a href=\"https:\/\/websummit.net\/change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/Web Summit.net\/change<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>4) \u201cIn Dublin, Tinder is bigger than Guinness.\u201d<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sean Rad, cofounder of Tinder (the LA-based company founded by Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen and Sean Rad in 2012), was in conversation with Steven Bertoni, Forbes Senior Editor. \u201cWe are connecting people and making the world a better place with more than 1.5 million dates per week, 30 million matches per day\u201d says the (once again) CEO of the dating app.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><b>5) French gatherings<\/b><\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Axelle Lemaire\u2019s visit at the Web Summit on Wednesday, the entire French community gathered up for a Reviens L\u00e9on party at Yap Me\u2019s offices with a great panel:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philippe Cayrol, Growth manager at Blablacar<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Matthieu Laporte, ancien joueur de rugby pro<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stan Massueras, cofounder of YapMe<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Pauline Brown, Marketing director at Dataiku<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Bertrand Jelensperger (LaFourchette\/TheFork\/El tenedor CEO &amp; cofounder) :\u00a0whose startup was bought by TripAdvisor for an estimate $140 million in 2014.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Julien Hervouet (iAdvize CEO &amp; cofounder) : the amazing startup that helps develop an e-relation client relationship (click to chat, click to call, click to video) with 70+ employees and a presence in 38 countries.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laurent Muzellec, teacher at ESSCA and Trinity<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/imm3.png\" alt=\"imm3\" width=\"700\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The night ended at Opium with the French Tech ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">6)\u00a0<b>From #FOMO to #DemDebates<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dave Jakubowski, the Head of Adtech at Facebook gave us his main tips concerning marketing : <\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social connected the world<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Focus on insights from real people<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mobile broke the internet<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Native is king<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be where your customers are<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to him, the key to an efficient marketing strategy is for it to be: accurate, persistant and scalable.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>7) Pitch competition sponsored by Audi<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From 200 selected startups to 40 in the semi-finals, the winners are : <\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the alpha category : <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecterra.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connecterra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u00a0the \u2018Fitbit for cows\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the beta category <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizimply.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bizimply<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the all in one restaurant management software<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A special congrats to Jaclyne Clarke, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he Lady Pitch Night (organized by Girls in Tech Paris) winner, who made it to the semi-finals with her startup <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/findify.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Findify<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the intelligent<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> e-commerce search powered by machine learning and big data.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><b>8) \u201cI would never use wifi here\u201d<\/b><\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nico Sell was on stage to talk about how to protect the digital soul. Privacy, the new fame ? \u201cEvery company should hire hackers\u201d according to the founder of Wickr, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cself-destructing, secure, private, anonymous\u201d communication tool<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><b>9) \u201cToy Story will be turning 20 this month\u201d<\/b><\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Pixar\u2019s president, Ed Catmull, was on stage for the Web Summit closing act. He shared his vision of business and his team: \u201cAlways allow practical jokes and childishness in business. You should measure the team NOT by output but by spirit and laughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/imm4.png\" alt=\"imm4\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>10) Bye Bye Dublin, hello Lisbon<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After 5 years in Dublin, Web Summit will be moving to Lisbon for 2016. The Irish RDS will be replaced by<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> MEO Arena and FIL Feira Internacional de Lisboa.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first event was small, with just 400 attendees. Within 5 years, it has grown to 42,000 attendees. 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