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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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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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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