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Lessons learned in Silicon Valley

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  • Be open about your ideas/startup. Just pitch them constantly. The feedback is amazing, especially in the Tech Mecca.
  • Be bold when it comes to meet Valley superstars. They are much more open than what we think, here, in Europe.
  • Be ready for a culture shock when you land in the middle of Bay to Breakers after a 11 hours flight.

A few highlights for BeeBole

On Tuesday, we had a 5 min pitch/demo on the stage of SF Newtech.

A big thank you to Myles from SF Newtech who gave us this opportunity. And a big thank you to Rudy Demotte, Chief Minister of Wallonia (the Belgian region where BeeBole is located) for his presence and support.

On Wednesday and Thursday we lost our voices in the Developer Sandbox at the Google IO.
It was an amazing experience and the feedback we received was really good. It also created great opportunities we are now digging into. Thank you to all the Google fans, developers and partners who passed by. I have shared a few picture of our booth.

Last but not least, the Webmission San Francisco 2010.
Thank you to Jenny for making this a huge success. Thank you to the webmissioners for bringing so much energy. It was, really, an incredible team.

San Francisco, Google IO… See you next year !

Our team is in San Francisco

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We landed this week-end in San Francisco, for a full week of work and fun.

First, we will be presenting BeeBole on the 18th at the SF Newtech “The Belgian’s are back”
with a few other Belgians startups.

Free Tacos at the after party!

On the 19th and the 20th, we will be demoing our application in the Developer Sandbox
at the Google IO.

If you have the chance to have a ticket, just come by our booth! We will show the last goodies.

The rest of the week is full of visits, meetups and talks with our Belgian Webmission.

BeeBole Goes To Sevilla

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We took a multi-lingual approach for our web app from the very first day we started developing and even if our beta is not public yet, our private beta testers can already play in four languages: English, French, Dutch and Spanish.

In a few weeks, we will have a unique opportunity to meet the Spanish web scene.

BeeBole in Spanish Thumbnail

On the 13th, 14th and 15th of November, the biggest Spanish web event, Evento Blog, will occur in Sevilla.

Thanks to the continuous effort of Ramón Suárez, a Spanish expatriate well known in the little web arena of Brussels, a Belgian web mission will take place.

This will give the chance to a few Belgian start-ups to discover the Spanish market a little bit deeper and meet its main actors (medias, VCs, …).

Robin Wauters, writer for the famous blog Techcrunch, is joining the mission and will also be a keynote speaker.

If you are a Belgian start-up interested in the Spanish market, I can only invite you to join this wonderful opportunity. All the information is available here and there are still a few seats left: http://wiki.webmission.be/ebe09

For the others, I hope to see you there!

And thanks again Ramón.

We Are Movie Stars!

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Mike Butcher just posted on TechCrunch Europe: GeeknRolla – The Movie

And Guess what? BeeBole is in!

Geek ‘n Rolla was a day long (April 21, 2009) conference for startups created by TechCrunch Europe. As part of the day we asked startups around Europe to celebrate with a little rocking out. This video was created by Bonney and Klein, conceived by Stradbroke Advisors. GeeknRolla was sponsored by Viadeo, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, School for Startups and Bootlaw.

GeeknRolla – The Movie from Mike Butcher on Vimeo.

On Behalve of BeeBole, I have to thank Bonney and Klein and Inma Martinez from Stradbroke Advisors for inviting us to participate to the video and of course TechCrunch Europe.

It feels good to be considered as a rocking start-up.

BeeBole Elevator Pitch @ Plugg

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Last Thursday in Brussels, we attended the Plugg conference, which focuses on celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation in Europe.

First of all, a big thanks to Robin Wauters and Veronique Pochet for the organization: it was a success!

Secondly, as I announced 3 weeks ago, BeeBole had been selected to do an elevator pitch of 2 min on stage.

You can watch it hereunder (It is not the same as the one appearing in the previous post) and find the slides on Slidehsare:

Plugg – BeeBole Elevator Pitch

We didn’t make it to the final but we’ve had wonderful feedback during the rest of the event and even got some press on TechCrunch.

Mic also held a small interview in Spanish for Ramón Suárez and his blog. (Thank you Ramón).

To end up, I would like to congratulate Mendeley and Myngle for winning the Start-Up Rally. Both have not only good products; they are also great people to meet.

You can find all the other videos, pictures and presentations of the conference here.

London Calling – FOWA 2008

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Early tomorrow, we will be leaving Brussels to attend the Future of Web Apps event in London.

The event is one of the major event in the apps industry in Europe.

Well known names are joining the party: Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, Kevin Rose from Digg and many others.

Just leave a comment if you plan to attend the event and we might try to meet each other.

Future of Web Apps – London 2008

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In the new flourishing market of Web 2.0 events, we decided to attend the Future of Web Apps event.

It will happen in October (8-10 October) in London at the Excel (in the docks area).

Future of Web Apps

Just like its US equivalent in Miami last March, big names from well known companies are coming: Kevin Rose from Digg, Erick Schonfeld from Techcrunch, etc., …

We will attend the conferences on the 9th and the 10th of October.

If you plan to attend the event and look for company while there, just post a comment.