Οι ελληνικες startups ειναι εδω
Ακολουθούν οι διαφάνειες παρουσίασης του Play247 στη 2η συνάντηση Open Coffee της Πάτρας.
Το Play247 είναι μια κλασική επιχείρηση εμπορίας μέσω Internet, που όμως μέσα από την επιτυχία του αποδεικνύει ότι οι απλές ιδέες έχουν γενικά πολύ μεγάλες πιθανότητες επιτυχίας.
Οι διαφάνειες ξεκινούν από τα δύσκολα χρόνια, και συνεχίζουν στη σημερινή ημέρα όπου το Play247 έχει πια ετήσιο τζίρο 2.2 εκ €.
a guest post by Yorgos Dedes, winner of the contest for a semi-free LeWeb ticket
Another LeWeb has reached its end. LeWeb 08, Paris – the major annual international internet conference in Europe, organized by Loic Le Meur (founder of Seesmic) and his wife Geraldine, has been a controversial event. More than 1700 participants from all over the world, a cast of international names, a start up competition, big sponsors, demo rooms-workshops, two French government ministers and two after-show parties can sum up what Le Web 08 was all about.
This event didn’t meet the expectations of many of its participants. That was obvious. Some people called it “No Web” since you had to pray for some minutes of internet. Room temperature for the first day was too low to survive without wearing your coat. The food was really tasty if you had the luck to taste it. Loic describes the problems much better than me and I really like the way he does it. Except for the infrastructure issues, Loic got critised about his softball interviews, especially these ones regarding the sponsors.
But still, Le Web is about networking. Le Web is people from around the globe, gathered in the same place in order to meet old friends and make new ones. A place where you can meet in personal people who you only know through the web, pitch your ideas and get feedback. So, for a newbie like me, Le Web was a great experience! The content may not have been always of high level, but there were times that I really enjoyed being there. I feel really lucky for attending Le Web and I want once more to thank opencoffee.gr who gave me this chance.
So, let’s go through the highlights of Le Web 08. On day one, David Weinberger with his presentation entitled “leadership at the end of the age of information” pointed out that leadership is property of a network. In the past information naturally flowed up to the leaders, at the top. Now information is everywhere and available for everyone. So, a leader nowadays has to get the best of the best network.
Helen Fisher gave a long presentation trying to explain how love works and how important it is for us to clear this out. One thing among the many points that caught my attention was that after experiments, love and coccaine activate the same part of the brain!
Then, Paulo Coelho, the famous Brasilian author and blogger, made clear that “You’ll have to share in order to get some revenue”. He has tested this policy, against his publicers willing, and he found out that people download the book but don’t read it, they just wait for the hardcopy.
In what was probably the OpenCoffee session with the most startups or projects (to play along with recent complaints that the term ‘startup’ is used rather loosely) presenting, here’s what you missed if you didn’t make it to the event – nor tuned in its live coverage.
First of all, there were 3 presentations from the by most accounts successful Athens Startup Weekend. Blognudge to begin with is trying to solve the problem that some bloggers (hint, hint) fail to update on a regular basis and (nudge, nudge) even weeks intervene between their posts. What this service does is that it simply allows you to install a widget/button on your blog that visitors can push to urge you to write a post. Although this is the only feature offered at the moment, future versions will allegedly include the option of suggesting a topic, donating to the blogger or donating to a charity. A number of revenue streams have also been thought of for Blognudge including a monthly charge on bloggers using it, requesting a cut from (non-charity) donations and also exploiting the statistics and the data generated by the ‘nudgers’.
howsocial.ru is a service that aims to measure the combined social impact users of social media have on their online environment of followers and connections and rank them accordingly. Their goal is to include all important platforms starting with Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and the blogosphere – although at the moment the service operates using just Twitter as a proof of concept. The business model is based on the fact that knowledge of the most influential nodes in the social graph (i.e. how people are interconnected in the various platforms through following etc) is highly valuable to anyone who would be interested to get their message across. As such possible paying customers of this service are marketers, startups or even individuals willing to identify who to approach for their promotion goals. At the same time, analytics on particular topics/keywords will be provided under the lens of who propagates such information – and their importance. (Disclaimer: I am a member of the Athens Startup Weekend team that put together this project.)
Σε συνέχεια του Calacanis effect, συνεχίζουμε τις περισσότερο καθετοποιημένες -σε επίπεδο αναφοράς- συναντήσεις, αυτή τη φορά όχι με θεματολογία ανάπτυξης λογισμικού, αλλά εξόρυξης δεδομένων. Αν μη τι άλλο τα δεδομένα και η επεξεργασία αυτών συνιστούν σήμερα το καύσιμο για οποιαδήποτε καινοτομία, η συνάντηση προβλέπεται εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσα.
Ο χώρος είναι το γνωστό μας από τα ggd Nixon, Αγησιλάου 61Β στον Κεραμεικό, ακριβώς πίσω από το bios, με την εκλεκτή αίθουσα προβολών δίπλα από το bar. Οι ώρες λίγο πολύ όπως τις ξέρετε για ένα τυπικό Open Coffee event, προσέλευση, καφέδες και πρώτες συστάσεις στις 18.00, εκκίνηση των ομιλιών λίγο πριν τις 19.00, από τις 20.00 και μετά έντονο networking συνοδεία αλκοόλ, σε ποσότητες της επιλογής σας. Όλα αυτά την ερχόμενη Πέμπτη, 11 Δεκεμβρίου, με ομιλίες που προβλέπονται εξίσου ενδιαφέρουσες:
Αξίζει να αναφέρουμε πως η χωρητικότητα για καθήμενους στην αίθουσα προβολών δεν ξεπερνά κατά πολύ τα 60 άτομα, οπότε χρειάζεται να απολογηθούμε προκαταβολικά για όσους απαιτηθεί να ξοδέψουν το απόγευμά τους σε ένα από τα πιο ζεστά bar της πόλης. Μπορείτε να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή είτε με σχόλιο εδώ, είτε στο σχετικό facebook event, σε κάθε περίπτωση ωστόσο να είστε βέβαιοι πως -τόσο από τις ομιλίες, όσο κυρίως από τις επαφές- πρόκειται να εξορύξετε αρκετή γνώση κατά τη διάρκεια της συνάντησης αυτής.
update: Λόγω των γεγονότων των τελευταίων ημερών, κρίνεται σκόπιμη η αναβολή της συνάντησης, σε ημερομηνία που εκκρεμεί προς ανακοίνωση.
We initiated kind of an experiment yesterday night, trying to come up with a list of the Open Coffee Athens XVII participants and extending the network effect in the dimension of time. So, we created a typical form and asked whoever wanted to go and submit her details (name/title (required), url, twitter and a short message, plus her email if she wanted to be submitted in our mailing list to receive announcements of our future events).
It’s clear that the process wasn’t flawless and the bottleneck in the one laptop receiving all submissions was significant, nevertheless the list of a small portion of the attendees follows here, while the rest of you may submit your details now, or leave a comment (the post will be updated). And, of course, we’re waiting for your feedcack on this very rough idea!
Ο χώρος για να αφήσετε τις εντυπώσεις και τα σχόλιά σας για την 17η αθηναϊκή συνάντηση του Open Coffee που ολοκληρώθηκε πριν λίγο.