Meeting with Pierre Perrot from IncubAlliance
Posted on July 24th, 2008
In the continuity of the launch of our project, we discovered IncubAlliance incubator, located in Orsay whose activities cross sets up pre-incubation, incubation and even post-incubation project.
IncubAlliance’s mission is to support projects from public research or whose holders are students of schools and universities. EFREI is a member of this partnership, we had the opportunity to talk with Pierre Perrot, Business Manager at IncubAlliance about business and marketing aspects of our project.
We listened to impressions and feelings of this expert who conducted a technical and commercial career and once again, we continued learning about entrepreneurship, but more particularly on the approach to identify the outline of a solid business model.
How to fit in the market? What is our value chain? What is our market positioning? What is our value proposition? Who are our customers and who pays? What is our entrepreneurial strategy and long-term impacts arising on our schedule? These are simple questions we did not raise so clearly before.
In short, we have emerged from these two hours of discussion with questions head full of meetings and reflections in perspective.
Brainstorm is good! Eat it!
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Greennovative.com is launching !
Posted on July 22nd, 2008
A new blog about green, ethics and new technologies matters : Greennovative.com!
In this blog, you will find a ton of information on new technologies that are aware of their environmental impact or which try to reduce the footprint of Mankind on the Earth. The editorial focus of this blog is meant definitely innovative, mixing high-tech and environmental protection, bringing fresh and relevant news to all those who are near or below those topics.
Examples of what has already been published? Virtualization and ecology: strengths and future of this technology…, A software to optimize impressions: ecological and economic! Concept of non-stop train: a revolution?, How to attract users on sites carpool: you play! A phone solar motive for the future?
In short, plenty of news in perspective! Go ahead and tell us!
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Meet Vincent Bouatou, head of Imagine Cup at Microsoft France
Posted on July 15th, 2008
Last Friday, we had an appointment with Vincent Bouatou, head of Imagine Cup at Microsoft France to discuss our project, how it improved after the Imagine Cup 2008 and our future prospects. it was also an opportunity to meet Antoine Emond, Audience Marketing Manager of the Division Plateforme and Ecosystem, who is in charge of live content and community gathered around the platform MSDN (and you will find also GameBible…:)).
We discussed several aspects both technical / technological and in terms of marketing (web 2.0) and in particular the power represents a strong community as the community of Sustainable Development and Green.
It shows two major difficulties: to mix merchant & community functionalities and to gain enough credibility to assert our criteria for selecting products / partners that we offer through Hop-Cube.
In short, almost 2h worthy exchange that will allow us to complete our offer when it was released!
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Our visit at Imagine Cup 2008 worldwide finals
Posted on July 7th, 2008
Even if we left the french Imagine Cup 2008 competition, we continued to follow the adventures of the worldwide finalists, espacially because the final is taking place in Paris nowadays !
So we went to the Novotel, where all the finalist teams are accomodated, and visited the running competitions.
At first, we went to see IT Challenge competition and entered that concentrated atmosphere where the 6 best IT Challengers were at work while about 8h. Still 16h remaining, be brave guys !
You recognized him, Je@nb (Jean-Benoit Peaux) is the french competitor in this category.
Oh ! Isn’t it the machine room for the IT Challange category ? What monsters !
Then, just few meters far from that room, we meet the Project Hoshimi Teams, conding hard their strategies. Here again, the competitors have to be concentrated on their development during 24h non-stop ! A hard time for them !
We ended our tour by visiting our collegues, the teams Edelweiss and Jivad which are composed by one student from EFREI technology institute and one other from the Strate College, a designer school. Here is their blog !
They started to imagine a new interface about 8 hours ago when Jivad team gave us their comments about the running work.
And as you can see, they were in a quiet and peaceful place, giving them all the space they needed to create and imagine without constraints.
Smartcooking, the winning project of the french competition final was about to present face to the judges for the first time ! Unfortunetely, a technical issue appeared just during their preparation !
After 10 minutes of tangible tension, they finally reboot all their system and all was done and the problem was solved miraculously !! That is we call the “demo effect” and always appends when you prepared something for hours.
Quoting some judges, they had all their chances, making demonstrative presentations and holding a strong project.
However, their adventure stopped among the 12 world firsts finalists. We are impatient to know if they continue to develop their project by creating a company. Here is the blog.
Finally, we finished our visit to the Imagine Cup 2008 competition finals by walking through the showcase room, where all the projects were exposed. At that occasion, we meet the algerian software design team and we talked about their project for few minutes! Here is their blog where you can find much more information about their initiative.
Much more information at http://www.imaginecup.com
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Some pieces of news !
Posted on July 6th, 2008
Hop-Cube Team is not dead ! Actually, we are making some deep refreshes of the concept of the project to make it clearer to explain and more consistent with the situation. As the evolution was almost continuous last days, we can’t expose the changes for now. But, be assured, we will post all the details when the idea will be fixed !
For the moment, the main idea of the project stays to gather ecology businesses and give them the opportunity to get more and more customers.
More details here !
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L’équipe Hop-Cube n’est pas morte ! En effet, nous faisons actuellement des remaniements profonds du concept du projet pour le rendre plus facile à expliquer et plus pertinent face à la situation des entreprises “vertes” du moment. Et comme l’évolution a été à peu près continue ces jours derniers, nous ne pouvons pas encore exposer les changements pour le moment. Mais soyez rassurés, nous posterons tous les détails quand l’idée sera enfin fixée !
Pour le moment, l’idée principale du projet reste de rassembler les entreprises “vertes” et de leur donner l’opprtunité d’obtenir de plus en plus de clients.
Plus de détails ici !
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