LeWeb3: New Edition of the ´Start-up Competition´ on 11 and 12 December 2007
33 Start-Ups out of 120 Competing Companies Have Just Been Short-Listed for the Competition Organised as Part of Leweb3
On 11 and 12 December, following the initiative by Geraldine and
Loic Le Meur, the 4th edition of LeWeb3 (www.leweb3.com) will be held
in Paris - Les Docks de Paris (Porte de la Chapelle). This event
represents Europe´s largest gathering of bloggers with
1 500 participants and brings together the key players in the Internet
as well as innovative entrepreneurs.
Once again this year, LeWeb3 is focusing the spotlight on
entrepreneurship with the Start-Up Competition, organised in
partnership with leading French TV channel TF1, which is aimed at
promoting new initiatives. The 33 finalists will have chance to
present their project in a dedicated area - the Start-Up Corner - in
front of a jury of 25 opinion leaders, journalists, entrepreneurs and
investors.
The five winners will take part in the plenary session held on the
2nd day before LeWeb3´s 1 500 participants. Their profile boost will
serve as a platform for finding sources of funding and help them to
quickly gain awareness in the Internet sector. Furthermore, TF1 will
give one of the five winners a special "TF1 Group director coaching"
award.
To ensure that the start-up business spectrum is evenly
represented, the competing companies have been divided into four
categories - B2B/enterprise, video, mobile and consumer. Their
geographic origins have also been taken into account for a more
effective worldwide representation.
The criteria chosen by the jury include:
-- What problem is the company looking to resolve? Is the company
breaking out into an existing, growing or emerging market?
-- Is the solution/service proposed by the company really
differentiating?
-- Does the company have a clearly defined economic model?
-- Is there a real-life demonstration of the benefits of the
solution?
-- Is the company going to present itself as a new entity or is
it announcing a new product/service?
Members of the jury for this new edition: Scott Rafer - Lookery;
Mark Oiknine - 3i; Julien Codorniou - Microsoft; Eric Archambeau -
Wellington Partners; Andreas Schlenker - Partech International; Ouriel
Ohayon - Lightspeed Gemini Internet Lab; Thomas Crampton - Journalist;
Rodrigo Sepulveda - Vpod.TV; Simon Levene - Accel Partners; Martin
Duval - Orange; Ola Ahlvarsson - Result; Steffi Czerny - Hubert Burda
Media/DLD; Erik Stuart - eBay ; Mattias Ljungman - Atomico
Investments; Alex Vieux - Red Herring; Saul Klein - Index
Ventures/SeedCamp; Cecile Moulard - Badiliz; Guillaume Buffet - CRM
Company Group; Olivier Abecassis - TF1; Om Malik - GigaOM; Pierre
Kosciusko-Morizet - PDG PriceMinister; Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf - YL
Ventures; Michael Arrington - TechCrunch; Christian Lindholm - Fjord;
Frederic Court - Advent Ventures
Timetable for the Start-Up Competition - 11 December 2007
Presentation of the 3 sponsor Start-Up
10:30 - 10:40 Ekaabo
10:40 - 10:50 GooJet
10:50 - 11:00 Nomao
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11:00 - 11:10 Zyb 14:30 - 14:40 LouderVoice
11:10 - 11:20 Wichro 14:40 - 14:50 WooMe
11:20 - 11:30 Erepublik 14:50 - 15:00 WaveStorm
11:30 - 11:40 Yooplus 15:00 - 15:10 Wixi
11:40 - 11:50 RTGI 15:10 - 15:20 Zoomorama
11:50 - 12:00 Yoowalk 15:20 - 15:30 Alenty
15:30 - 15:40 DIGICorp
15:40 - 15:50 Holistis
12:30 - 12:40 Siteheart (Walk2Web) 15:50 - 16:00 CodaSystem
12:40 - 12:50 Creative Ions
12:50 - 13:00 Studio Melipone
13:00 - 13:10 Floobs 16:30 - 16:40 Babelgom
13:10 - 13:20 Scopa.TV 16:40 - 16:50 Wuala (Caleido)
13:20 - 13:30 PLYMedia 16:50 - 17:00 eXo Platform
13:30 - 13:40 Screenvision 17:00 - 17:10 G.ho.st
13:40 - 13:50 SplitGames 17:10 - 17:20 BlueKiwi
13:50 - 14:00 CTXGames 17:20 - 17:30 SaleMiner
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About LeWeb3:
The first edition of LeWeb3 was masterminded by Loic Le Meur
(http://loiclemeur.com/France). The idea is simple: turn Paris into
the world´s Internet and blog capital for two days.
In 2006, LeWeb3 was a sell-out. Shimon Peres opened an edition
featuring 1 350 participants from 36 countries, who had come to
exchange points of view during talks involving Niklas Zennstrom -
founder of Kazaa and Skype, Reid Hoffman - founder of LinkedIn, Tariq
Krim - founder of Netvibes, and Marc Simoncini - founder of Meetic...
LeWeb3 today is Europe´s leading Internet-dedicated event.