Hop-Cube is selected to present at European Investor Summit!
Posted on April 30th, 2009
Another surprise this morning when arriving: Hop-Cube is one of 23 European companies selected to present their project to an audience of investors from all walks of life. A unmissable opportunity for us who are currently looking for funding!
The 6th European Investor Summit is an annual event proposed by Microsoft and Europe Unlimited to be held next May 13th in Prague. It is part of the first European SME Week initiated by the European Union.
It is Thomas who will represent Hop-Cube on-site and who will showcase our business to the audience of European VCs and Business Angels (brilliantly, as usual:)).
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Hop-Cube invited to the lauching event of the Imagine Cup 2009 competition !
Posted on November 14th, 2008
Hop-cube has been invited by Vincent Bouatou, Microsoft France, to respond to a small interview at the press launch of the French edition of the Imagine Cup international competition for the year 2009. We will express the course of the competition last year and our experience as an entrepreneur.
If you plan to go to this event, please feel free to make sign to us and to come and discuss with us! : D
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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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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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EFREI students qualified for the worldwide ImagineCup final!
Posted on May 26th, 2008
As you know, we failed to qualified for the worldwide final in the “Software Design” category, two other teams from our school (Efrei), qualified themselves for the worldwide final in Paris, in the ”Interface Design” category.
You will find in their blog “Le blog des équipes de l’Efrei pour l’Imagine Cup 2008“, the description or their projects and all of the Imagine Cup adventure!
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Coaching & rugby
Posted on April 16th, 2008
Welcome to Marcoussis National Rugby Center, the place where the "XV de France" (the french national rugby team) train itself.
Last week end, a part of our team (Romain Vailleux and Benjamin Talmard) spent 2 days in this place, working on our project, thanks to Microsoft France. They were coached by professionals from the IT sector, the environnemental sector and the business sector.
It was very interesting for us to get a large range of advice and opinions, in order to be ready for the french final in one month… In an other hand, it was really great to live during 2 days where french national rugbymen lived during weeks.
IT is a sport ! 
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Bienvenue au centre national du Rugby de Marcoussis, le lieu où s'entraine l'équipe du XV de France, l'équipe nationale française de rugby).
La semaine dernière, une partie de l'équipe (Romain Vailleux and Benjamin Talmard) a passé 2 jours là bas, pour travailler sur le projet, grâce à Microsoft France. Ils ont été coachés par des professionels de tous horizons et de tous les domaines : techniques, environnement, business.
C'était très interessant pour nous d'obtenir autant d'avis et de conseils, dans le but d'être prêts pour la finale française, dans un mois… D'un autre côté, c'était vraiment génial de pouvoir vivre pendant 2 jours où les rugbymens français vivent pendant des semaines…
L'informatique est un sport après tout
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