Vittorio Pasteris

Jack Dorsey fondatore di Twitter ha presentato a Leweb, Square un piccolo device in grado di collegarsi ad un iphone ed ai telefoni cellulari per leggere i dati delle carte di credito e fare acquisti on-line.

Parla la Regina Rania e di capisce quando si ha carisma e idee chiare

Via Techcrunch

Le Web in Paris kicked off today and as we’ve previously mentioned, TechCrunch Europe is co-organising the Startup Competition. We’re breaking the news about the startups launching at the event as they happen, so please tune in to our RSS feed and our Twitter account @TCEurope to get the latest updates. Tomorrow we’ll be publishing as wrap on the finalists and the winner.

We’ve already blogged the launch of companies like CloudSplit, Task.ly, Tigerlilly, Stribe, and Friendbinder. And there’ll be plenty more throughout the day. As Mike Arrington says, Le Web isn’t just Europe’s most important tech event any more, it’s turning into a must-attend event for people around the world.

La famiglia Lemeur al gran completo presenta la prossima sontuosa edizione di LeWeb

Sperando in un futuro migliore. Le web09: ci saremo se tutto andrà bene

Michael Arrington via Techcrunch

The crowd jeered but the stark reality of it all is unavoidable. And the fact that the panelists on stage, all either American or living in America, suggested that you can somehow succeed with a startup while maintaining a healthy work-life balance is unfortunate. Too many people choose to be entrepreneurs as a lifestyle, without realizing that it takes everything you have and more to win. And if you aren’t in it to win, why not just take that nice job down the street that gives you five weeks of vacation.

Two hour lunches are great. But when you have investors to answer to and employees (and their families) to provide for, something has to give. Perhaps that’s why many of Europe’s hardest charging and most successful entrepreneurs tend to move to Silicon Valley, where they are surrounded by like minded people.

The panelists would have better served the audience by urging them to help shift European culture to be more supportive of their entrepreneurs. These people need a fighting chance to survive, and just telling them what they want to hear isn’t helpful. Joie de vivre is fine once you’ve sold that startup and have a summer house in the south of France. In the meantime, get to work. Le Web needs more Europeans on stage next year, and it just may be you up there telling the world how you overcame European culture and grew a successful company.