Thomas Mathieu is the co-founder of Guest Suite. He studied business at Audencia in Nantes. He is passionate about new technologies, consumer behaviors, and video. He launched Guest Suite in 2013 with his co-founder to help professionals better manage their online reputation through customer reviews. Guest Suite collects reviews from customers to provide a more accurate reflection of businesses. His goals for the company are to become a leader in Europe for review management and strengthen their presence in France.
Ilfynn Lagarde is the co-founder of Youzd, an online platform for buying and reselling used home goods like furniture and appliances. She has a background in business from HEC Paris and previously worked for 15 years at large companies before launching Youzd in late 2019. Youzd aims to make reselling large used items easy and fun in order to promote more sustainable consumption habits. Lagarde believes the keys to success in entrepreneurship are perseverance, optimism, and the ability to adapt amid opportunities and obstacles.
Salim Lahlou is the founder and CEO of Baobab Lab, a startup focused on sustainable catering and connected canteens. He has always been entrepreneurial, founding a humanitarian association in 2006. In 2013, he had his first professional entrepreneur experience in fast food restaurants. In 2017, he launched Baobab Lab to revolutionize workplace meals by making healthy, homemade food accessible to all. His goals are to develop Baobab Lab's fridge network and team, while contributing to more sustainable consumption habits and local economies.
This document contains an interview with Fedra Djelassi, the founder and CEO of Abacane, a startup that aims to better balance the relationship between brands and consumers in digital communication. Abacane plans to launch a platform in February 2023 where individuals can be privately connected with brands they are interested in, in exchange for their attention and purchase intentions. The platform also allows users to see the value of their data on the advertising market. The goal is for Abacane to become the reference for this new form of connection between brands and consumers in France.
The document summarizes a digital health startup called Appetit that aims to increase daily activity and satisfaction through an integrated mobile service. It discusses Appetit's solution of providing personalized workout and nutrition plans, over 2000 workout sessions, and lifestyle recommendations based on user data. The document also provides details on Appetit's business model, marketing strategy, team members, achievements and financial details as it seeks funding to expand its user base and technical development.
Rupert Schiessl is the co-founder and CEO of Verteego, a predictive AI platform company. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Austria and pursued further education in France, earning degrees in economics. He co-founded Verteego in 2008 focusing on helping large companies reduce CO2 emissions, but pivoted the company in 2017 to focus on predictive AI to help clients understand strategic flows. He emphasizes the importance of finding a true solution to a real customer need.
Gil deBizemont is the founder and CEO of Bilig Mobile, a company that designs and produces electric vehicles. He has always considered himself an entrepreneur and creator, having started his first business at age 16. deBizemont studied art and architecture. He is passionate about design and invention, and aims to create useful products that solve problems. As an entrepreneur, he prefers self-funding his ventures during the early years of research and development. deBizemont believes that true innovation and simple, customer-focused concepts are key to success with startups. His goal for Bilig Mobile is for it to become a leading brand known for quality electric trikes.
Alexandre Hampe is the COO of Portrait, a startup created in 2018. He has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the technology sector, founding and selling several companies. Hubside, his current venture, allows individuals and professionals to easily create personalized websites at no cost. Hampe aims to continue Hubside's international expansion and develop new services like online communities and e-commerce capabilities to further its mission of making the internet more inclusive.
Valentin Konrad is the co-founder and COO of Flatchr, a SaaS solution for recruiters that simplifies candidate acquisition and management. He has experience in various roles within his companies from marketing to sales to operations. He believes in leading by example and aims to digitalize HR for SMEs and ETIs across Europe with Flatchr. Key success factors for entrepreneurs include strong initial hiring and focusing on a niche without diversifying too quickly.
This document contains an interview with Shu Zhang, the co-founder and CEO of Pandobac, a French startup focused on reusable packaging and reducing waste. Some key points:
- Zhang has an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and pursued her passion for cooking by obtaining a culinary certificate.
- She opened her own restaurant in 2014 which gave her the idea for Pandobac after seeing the waste produced. Pandobac launched in 2018 with a team of 10 employees.
- Zhang believes identifying problems customers want solved and validating solutions with potential customers are critical success factors for startups.
- Pandobac aims to become a global leader in reusable packaging and help popularize zero
Thomas Binant is the co-founder and CEO of a startup he co-founded in May 2018. As an entrepreneur, he enjoys taking on a variety of roles from software development to sales and marketing. He has a passion for dance since age 5 which taught him teamwork, discipline, and rigor. He tries to find the same adrenaline rush in his work as an entrepreneur.
Lise Hoffmann is the co-founder and CEO of ICEboard, a startup she co-founded in 2017 with two others. ICEboard helps companies better communicate during incidents and crises by providing a clear and targeted flow of information to the right people at the right time through a web and mobile application. Hoffmann has an engineering background and was attracted to the technical aspects of starting a company to address communication challenges during emergencies. She emphasizes the importance of having a strong relationship with co-founders and not being afraid of failure in entrepreneurship.
The document discusses the importance of networking and marketing for both individual survival and business survival. It states that networking and marketing are as essential as breathing to keep a business alive. It emphasizes establishing trust with potential customers through relationships in order to turn them into repeat customers. With new social media opportunities, it recommends creating an online presence and community to share one's passion and brand to maximize returns through networking. However, it warns that an online presence should have a clear vision and purpose in order to effectively attract and engage others.
The document contains responses from various entrepreneurs about their business challenges in 2009 and advice for 2010.
1) Entrepreneurs faced challenges such as organizing growing companies, generating business in a tough economy, ensuring infrastructure supported rapid growth, and managing a multi-directional business approach.
2) Marketing tools used included networking, websites, brochures, social media, and branding. Location and community involvement also helped some businesses.
3) Tips for 2010 included finding a niche, having passion despite economic challenges, balancing work and life, underpromising and overdelivering, and making plans with accountability.
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This document discusses how companies need to change their approach to better meet changing consumer expectations. It emphasizes that companies should focus on acting and communicating in remarkable ways, rather than just talking. It also stresses capitalizing on existing resources like employee knowledge and produced content, using pilots to drive change, and empowering employees as advocates. The key messages are that consumer expectations have changed, companies should leverage existing resources, and use pilots to facilitate organizational change.
Here are four tips for setting up your startup's central blog:
1. Choose a simple, memorable domain name that reflects your brand and story. This will be the home for all your content.
2. Optimize the design and user experience. Keep it clean, fast-loading and easy to navigate on any device.
3. Establish a consistent publishing schedule. This helps build trust and loyalty with your audience.
4. Prominently feature your buyer persona(s) and core story. Weave these into every blog post to resonate strongly.
You have an idea for a new software business and the passion to make it succeed. But, there are things still keeping you at your current job. People like you are called Micro Independent Software Vendors or MicroISVs, and they are very successful and happy. In this webinar with Mike Taber, co-founder of the Micropeneur Academy and President of Moon River Software, we'll explore this first infancy stage of your MicroISV and give you a roadmap that you can follow to successfully make the transition from working for someone else, to working for the boss you know you'll love - you.
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Packed with expertise from Fortune 500 marketers and SMB consultants, Get Scrappy provides real-life examples on how organizations, even those on less time and money, can make seemingly tactical objectives become strategic initiatives that generate results.
Do more on less. GET SCRAPPY.
The document discusses why various businesses use social media. It provides quotes from business owners explaining their social media strategies and goals. They aim to engage customers, build their brand, gain feedback, stay connected with their community, reach new audiences, and more. The low cost of social media makes it accessible for small businesses to promote themselves.
Max Collins is the founder of Social Media Business Boosters (SMBB), Australia's first social media marketing franchise. SMBB has experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2011, now having a network of franchisees across Australia and plans for international expansion. Collins discusses how SMBB provides structure, training, and results to its clients in social media marketing, which has become a critical channel for businesses. The franchise continues to grow its network of franchisees to expand its services and better serve multi-location clients.
Good strategy translates complex issues into a manageable plan. It focuses resources on prioritized goals, making decision making easier. This allows businesses to proactively manage growth and achieve their potential, rather than reacting to issues and letting priorities shift unpredictably. Strategy helps businesses breathe more easily by decomposing challenges into steps that can be addressed systematically.
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In todays ever changing economy being an entrepreneur is very tempting proposition and a path that can lead to having the freedom, the flexibility, and the lifestyle that goes with it.
Whilst some women entrepreneurs create a reality in which they climb the ladder of success and enjoy the many benefits that come with it, the truth remains, many other women have to face the reality of their present awareness of struggle, working long hours, and becoming fearful of what the future may hold.
For them the dream of building a successful business is very far into their future and out from their reach.
From working with hundreds of women entrepreneurs, I noticed that many of them who approach me for coaching are doing so for two main reasons. Some women are unhappy at work, they lack clarity of what they want to do, and are in the process of leaving their jobs to become Entrepreneurs.
Others, on the other hand already are Entrepreneurs, have an amazing business that they love and have worked very hard to build, but struggle to make meets end, have families that they need to support and lack the necessary mindset, skills and the processes that are required to expand their business.
The common mistakes most entrepreneurs do is that in the early stages of building their business many end up working in the business and forget to re-evaluate and to switch to a new role and start working on the business.
Silently they adopt I can do it all attitudes and due to some kind of fears they fail to take the next step and invest in building a team that they can use to delegate low priority tasks and free up valuable time. Time, which they can use to help them focus their energy on the high priority tasks and on the business itself.
Some of you that are reading this article maybe either of these women. You know that to quit, loose or leave a job to be an Entrepreneur is far from easy. You also may be aware of the many struggles, obstacles and the failures women entrepreneurs go through on their journey to climb the ladder of success.
The document summarizes discussions from a virtual strategy session for event professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key topics discussed included:
- CEO strategies for keeping companies financially stable through cost-cutting and pivoting to virtual events.
- Preparing for and engaging audiences at virtual events, as over 40% of professionals have no experience with online events.
- Adjusting marketing messaging to focus on support and relationship-building during uncertain times when clients aren't spending.
- Generating new business opportunities through collaboration and communicating openly with clients about future planning.
- Negotiating contract cancellations through transparency and finding win-win scenarios for venues and planners. The focus is on kindness between parties.
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The idea behind Designing Strategy isnt simply about building a slick-looking website with all the latest bells, whistles, and social media plug-ins. Instead, its about asking oneself all of the questions that need to be answered when building an online presence, and using those answers to form an outreach, engagement, or marketing game plan.
In boardrooms around the world, senior executives are discussing a common dilemma: how to create transformative experiences and business models that improve their customers lives, drive growth, and boost profitability and efficiency. Now is the time for leaders to reflect and consider the fundamentals of value creation in the business to go beyond the immediate, incremental change.
In this 200-page book, we explore how CEOs, boards and executives should compete in the digital age with a combination of experience, management consulting and technology expertise.
Editor: Hilding Anderson
Valentin Konrad is the co-founder and COO of Flatchr, a SaaS solution for recruiters that simplifies candidate acquisition and management. He has experience in various roles within his companies from marketing to sales to operations. He believes in leading by example and aims to digitalize HR for SMEs and ETIs across Europe with Flatchr. Key success factors for entrepreneurs include strong initial hiring and focusing on a niche without diversifying too quickly.
This document contains an interview with Shu Zhang, the co-founder and CEO of Pandobac, a French startup focused on reusable packaging and reducing waste. Some key points:
- Zhang has an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and pursued her passion for cooking by obtaining a culinary certificate.
- She opened her own restaurant in 2014 which gave her the idea for Pandobac after seeing the waste produced. Pandobac launched in 2018 with a team of 10 employees.
- Zhang believes identifying problems customers want solved and validating solutions with potential customers are critical success factors for startups.
- Pandobac aims to become a global leader in reusable packaging and help popularize zero
Thomas Binant is the co-founder and CEO of a startup he co-founded in May 2018. As an entrepreneur, he enjoys taking on a variety of roles from software development to sales and marketing. He has a passion for dance since age 5 which taught him teamwork, discipline, and rigor. He tries to find the same adrenaline rush in his work as an entrepreneur.
Lise Hoffmann is the co-founder and CEO of ICEboard, a startup she co-founded in 2017 with two others. ICEboard helps companies better communicate during incidents and crises by providing a clear and targeted flow of information to the right people at the right time through a web and mobile application. Hoffmann has an engineering background and was attracted to the technical aspects of starting a company to address communication challenges during emergencies. She emphasizes the importance of having a strong relationship with co-founders and not being afraid of failure in entrepreneurship.
The document discusses the importance of networking and marketing for both individual survival and business survival. It states that networking and marketing are as essential as breathing to keep a business alive. It emphasizes establishing trust with potential customers through relationships in order to turn them into repeat customers. With new social media opportunities, it recommends creating an online presence and community to share one's passion and brand to maximize returns through networking. However, it warns that an online presence should have a clear vision and purpose in order to effectively attract and engage others.
The document contains responses from various entrepreneurs about their business challenges in 2009 and advice for 2010.
1) Entrepreneurs faced challenges such as organizing growing companies, generating business in a tough economy, ensuring infrastructure supported rapid growth, and managing a multi-directional business approach.
2) Marketing tools used included networking, websites, brochures, social media, and branding. Location and community involvement also helped some businesses.
3) Tips for 2010 included finding a niche, having passion despite economic challenges, balancing work and life, underpromising and overdelivering, and making plans with accountability.
Social media and internal communications: "Consumers want another kind of com...Polle de Maagt
油
This document discusses how companies need to change their approach to better meet changing consumer expectations. It emphasizes that companies should focus on acting and communicating in remarkable ways, rather than just talking. It also stresses capitalizing on existing resources like employee knowledge and produced content, using pilots to drive change, and empowering employees as advocates. The key messages are that consumer expectations have changed, companies should leverage existing resources, and use pilots to facilitate organizational change.
Here are four tips for setting up your startup's central blog:
1. Choose a simple, memorable domain name that reflects your brand and story. This will be the home for all your content.
2. Optimize the design and user experience. Keep it clean, fast-loading and easy to navigate on any device.
3. Establish a consistent publishing schedule. This helps build trust and loyalty with your audience.
4. Prominently feature your buyer persona(s) and core story. Weave these into every blog post to resonate strongly.
You have an idea for a new software business and the passion to make it succeed. But, there are things still keeping you at your current job. People like you are called Micro Independent Software Vendors or MicroISVs, and they are very successful and happy. In this webinar with Mike Taber, co-founder of the Micropeneur Academy and President of Moon River Software, we'll explore this first infancy stage of your MicroISV and give you a roadmap that you can follow to successfully make the transition from working for someone else, to working for the boss you know you'll love - you.
Get Scrappy: A (Small) Business Owner's Guide to Marketing on LessMichelle Fitzgerald
油
Get Scrappy is a pared down, practical guide about how to incorporate marketing into the heart of any business plan.
Packed with expertise from Fortune 500 marketers and SMB consultants, Get Scrappy provides real-life examples on how organizations, even those on less time and money, can make seemingly tactical objectives become strategic initiatives that generate results.
Do more on less. GET SCRAPPY.
The document discusses why various businesses use social media. It provides quotes from business owners explaining their social media strategies and goals. They aim to engage customers, build their brand, gain feedback, stay connected with their community, reach new audiences, and more. The low cost of social media makes it accessible for small businesses to promote themselves.
Max Collins is the founder of Social Media Business Boosters (SMBB), Australia's first social media marketing franchise. SMBB has experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2011, now having a network of franchisees across Australia and plans for international expansion. Collins discusses how SMBB provides structure, training, and results to its clients in social media marketing, which has become a critical channel for businesses. The franchise continues to grow its network of franchisees to expand its services and better serve multi-location clients.
Good strategy translates complex issues into a manageable plan. It focuses resources on prioritized goals, making decision making easier. This allows businesses to proactively manage growth and achieve their potential, rather than reacting to issues and letting priorities shift unpredictably. Strategy helps businesses breathe more easily by decomposing challenges into steps that can be addressed systematically.
12 Key Mistakes Women Entrepreneurs Make Migrant Women Article Tony Jeton Selimi
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In todays ever changing economy being an entrepreneur is very tempting proposition and a path that can lead to having the freedom, the flexibility, and the lifestyle that goes with it.
Whilst some women entrepreneurs create a reality in which they climb the ladder of success and enjoy the many benefits that come with it, the truth remains, many other women have to face the reality of their present awareness of struggle, working long hours, and becoming fearful of what the future may hold.
For them the dream of building a successful business is very far into their future and out from their reach.
From working with hundreds of women entrepreneurs, I noticed that many of them who approach me for coaching are doing so for two main reasons. Some women are unhappy at work, they lack clarity of what they want to do, and are in the process of leaving their jobs to become Entrepreneurs.
Others, on the other hand already are Entrepreneurs, have an amazing business that they love and have worked very hard to build, but struggle to make meets end, have families that they need to support and lack the necessary mindset, skills and the processes that are required to expand their business.
The common mistakes most entrepreneurs do is that in the early stages of building their business many end up working in the business and forget to re-evaluate and to switch to a new role and start working on the business.
Silently they adopt I can do it all attitudes and due to some kind of fears they fail to take the next step and invest in building a team that they can use to delegate low priority tasks and free up valuable time. Time, which they can use to help them focus their energy on the high priority tasks and on the business itself.
Some of you that are reading this article maybe either of these women. You know that to quit, loose or leave a job to be an Entrepreneur is far from easy. You also may be aware of the many struggles, obstacles and the failures women entrepreneurs go through on their journey to climb the ladder of success.
The document summarizes discussions from a virtual strategy session for event professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key topics discussed included:
- CEO strategies for keeping companies financially stable through cost-cutting and pivoting to virtual events.
- Preparing for and engaging audiences at virtual events, as over 40% of professionals have no experience with online events.
- Adjusting marketing messaging to focus on support and relationship-building during uncertain times when clients aren't spending.
- Generating new business opportunities through collaboration and communicating openly with clients about future planning.
- Negotiating contract cancellations through transparency and finding win-win scenarios for venues and planners. The focus is on kindness between parties.
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油
The idea behind Designing Strategy isnt simply about building a slick-looking website with all the latest bells, whistles, and social media plug-ins. Instead, its about asking oneself all of the questions that need to be answered when building an online presence, and using those answers to form an outreach, engagement, or marketing game plan.
In boardrooms around the world, senior executives are discussing a common dilemma: how to create transformative experiences and business models that improve their customers lives, drive growth, and boost profitability and efficiency. Now is the time for leaders to reflect and consider the fundamentals of value creation in the business to go beyond the immediate, incremental change.
In this 200-page book, we explore how CEOs, boards and executives should compete in the digital age with a combination of experience, management consulting and technology expertise.
Editor: Hilding Anderson
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2. propos
Commentvous d辿cririez-vousentantqu'entrepreneur?
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nourris de mon quotidien, de mes lectures, de mes passions pour
servir lentreprise et la mener au plus haut niveau.
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souhait辿 poursuivre en entamant un master en communication, que
jai arr棚t辿 pour justement lancer Guest Suite.
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travers la presse ou les livres.
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monte toutes les vid辿os de nos s辿minaires. Je fais 辿galement des
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inspir辿. Jai eu lopportunit辿 de rencontrer des personnes passionnantes et lire de nombreux livres, notamment des
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sinspirer des autres et du quotidien qui nous entoure. Le
troisi竪me, cest de savoir sentourer des bonnes
personnes, ceux qui pourront aider, apporter leur vision et
inspirer.
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clients. En adoptant cette mentalit辿, on est en mesure de
proposer un produit ajust辿 et qui satisfait le march辿.
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chances sont faibles, il faut se lancer et essayer petit
petit pour ensuite gravir les 辿chelons. Le deuxi竪me
conseil cest den parler autour de soi. On a souvent cette
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contexte, il est plus que jamais essentiel pour les entreprises de bien gerer leur reputationen ligne et de sassurer que celle-ci soit
le reflet le plus fidele de la realite de leur entreprise. Cest la que Guest Suite intervient, puisque nous avons developpe un outil
SaaS qui permet de mesurer la satisfaction des clients et de la faire savoir. Grace a des enquetes envoyees au bon moment avec
les bons canaux de communication (Email, SMS, Tablette, QR Code...) les professionnels recueillent des avis clients en grande
quantite et peuvent les diffuser sur nos plateformes partenaires. De cette fac箕 on, les feedbacks des clients sont visibles du plus
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Pourquoi cechoix de produit /service ?
Nous avons d辿cel辿 une r辿elle souffrance chez les professionnels, une douleur quils ne pouvaient jusqualors, pas ma樽triser. Le
fruit de leur travail n'est pas toujours r辿compens辿 sa juste valeur, notamment en ligne. Tous leurs clients nont pas
lopportunit辿 de sexprimer, et si la majorit辿 ne peut pas donner son avis, limage en ligne nest plus le reflet de la r辿alit辿, mais
seulement lavis de quelques-uns. Cest pourquoi nous avons cr辿辿 Guest Suite, pour r辿aligner la valeur per巽ue par les prospects
(e-r辿putation)avec la valeurr辿ellementressentieparlesclients(la satisfaction).
Quels sontvos ambitions, vos objectifs pourvotreentreprise?
Nous poursuivons notre acc辿l辿ration massive, en ayant pour objectif de nous positionner comme leader europ辿en sur le Review
Management. Courant 2019, nous avons ouvert notre produit aux professionnels de tout secteur dactivit辿. Cette ann辿e, nous
renfor巽ons donc notre pr辿sence sur le march辿 fran巽ais en mettant laccent sur notre notori辿t辿. Le tout, en conservant un haut de
niveaude qualit辿et daccompagnementpourservirnosclients.
6. Lauteur.
S辿bastien Bourguignon
Auteur | Influenceur | Speaker
Expert Digital & Blockchain
Pour une transformation digitale r辿ussie !
Directeur Conseil au sein de Sopra Steria Next et CEO de la soci辿t辿
Chain Guru, il est dans le domaine du Digital, du Management, de
lInnovation et de lAgilit辿 depuis 2000. Sa vision de demain est un
monde num辿rique dans lequel les changements profonds de comportements
des hommes, les interactions au sein des entreprises, la comp辿tition
internationale des grands groupes, le management et les organisations
seront compl竪tement remis en question. La soci辿t辿 bouge vite, tr竪s
vite, linnovation et la n辿cessit辿 de plus dagilit辿 dans les
organisations doivent 棚tre une pr辿occupation majeure, il n'y a plus de
doute l-dessus.
Passionn辿 par linnovation, le num辿rique et le management, il
sint辿resse particuli竪rement aux m辿canismes li辿s lentreprenariat et
en particulier aux startups. Cela la amen辿 r辿aliser une s辿rie de
portraits de startupers pour les partager sur son blog. Son objectif
est multiple, comprendre les parcours de ces cr辿ateurs de startups, les
difficult辿s quils ont rencontr辿es, et comment tout cela se mat辿rialise
concr竪tement, finalement un vrai feedback dentrepreneur.
Par ailleurs, il est auteur de nombreux articles sur Les Echos, La
Tribune ou encore Si竪cle Digital. Il est aussi lauteur des livres
blancs de 束 #80PortraitDeStartuper 損 et 束 100 #PortraitDeStartuper
Saison 2 損, ainsi que du livre 束 Portraits de startupers 辿dition
2017 損 aux 辿ditions Maxima. Il est enfin co-fondateur et animateur du
podcast Tech Me To The Moon.
http://sebastienbourguignon.com/ http://www.sebastien-bourguignon.fr