Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

Loic Le Meur publishing a new book

Sortie dans un mois, originally uploaded by loiclemeur.

found on his Flickr photo stream ;) actually I use a screensaver on my mac that displays my contacts / friends pictures...

This book on blogs & podcasts is an update to the previous version, and should make it to the bookstore shelves in about a month.

Pascale Weeks publishes a cooking book

Almost three months now without reading blogs (no time really!). I had missed the launch of the very much awaited book on cooking by Pascale Weeks. I had been reading her blog for a very long time and we all knew she had to produce such a book. Well done.

Looks like the perfect gift for Christmas. Get it on Amazon !

"Le papy-krach" by Bernard Spitz

DSC02047, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

Bernard gave me the book (with a nice dedicace as well) in Monaco the other day, after we started discussing about French society. The man is a well known figure in the French Internet elite (he used to be head strategist at Canal+, Vivendi, etc.).

I heard him comment his book on TV, on radio this week... I thought I might share at least the cover with you. I need to read it just after Nicolas' book.

Nicolas Gaume's autobiography is out

DSC02034, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

Nicolas belongs to that rare breed of true entrepreneurs. At 19, he founded Kalisto that went to to a meteoric rise and fall, after going public. There was much debate about his company, and in this book, Nicolas in his own words and charisma tells his side of the story.

Just got it in, with a lovely dedicace. I will be reading it shortly (Nicolas had given me printouts last year as he was writing it) and update this post with my thoughts.

For a nice video of the man himself, check this impromptu lunch at 3GSM this year!

Happy Birthday, M. Billaut

You might not know it, but Jean-Michel Billaut, the so-called father of the French Internet, turned 61 today !
He's the guy exploding our stats at vpod.tv and the #1 user of our storage... I'm told he shot 41 GB of footage this week at Capital-IT.

Can't wait to see it online :)

By the way, JM, this is my gift to you today: we are going to update YOUR blog design SOON ;)

RSS (I think I'll stop the numbers): meet John-Paul Lepers, journalist with a grain of salt

Download movie (.mov)

John-Paul is a very well known French journalist, covering both international & domestic affairs, with a political twist onto everything. I first introduced him here.

His book was released only 2 weeks ago, and with virtually no TV apperance, his book has had 4 reprints (over 44,000 copies), and is already in the top 20 of book charts here in France… His blog is at johnpaullepers.blogs.com and makes use of video as well !

Emery was kind enough to create a teaser for this interview, as he joined us for a coffee on Place des Vosges, where we used Martin’s FON connection to the Internet…

 

Launch of a book

Front cover, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

Unfortunately I missed the cocktail party last thursday for the official launch of the 2nd opus of Chine Lanzmann & Laurent Edel, 2 former entrepreneurs scouting the world for new business ideas.

Laurent was super kind however to accept my apologies for not showing up (I was on my way back from Geneva), and sent me the book by mail. I'll let you know what I think about it when I get a chance to read it !

All their stuff is online at www.goodfutur.com.

Laurent Edel launches his book on funky business ideas [French]

from the Billaut Show

Laurent Edel is an interesting character. I met him a couple of years ago only, but his Internet heritage is quite long. After talking Jean-Michel Billaut into paying him a plane fare to the US, he stays on there and covers technology for the then hype Internet Think Tank atelier.fr. That experience helped him launch a start-up financing activity when he came back, helping about 30 companies get about 150 million euros in financing. He went on to launch the Republic Alley incubator. I would have interviewed him for you, but Jean-Michel Billaut as already done so in the Billaut show (see above)

Recently, with his wife Chine Lanzmann, he’s been focusing on travelling the world and finding fantastic “New Business Ideas”. He’s already written a first opus, and has just released his new book on the topic “gagner sa vie en se faisant plaisir”.

He’s inviting everyone on his blog to the launch cocktail this week on thrusday in Paris. I expect a lot of bloggers will show up, and I might tape the Mry & Rodrigo Show #6 there, unless I’m elsewhere in Europe that day for something I’ll only be allowed to announce on Monday .

So if you’re into entrepreneurship, new products, or just great fun, make sure you browse his blog, read his books, and come & sip some champaign on thursday.

John Paul Lepers launches his blog on the occasion of his book on Bernadette Chirac !

John Paul Lepers is a very well known French political and sociological journalist in France. He has guts, and treats all his field trips with LOTS of humor, sometimes slight over the border. Impertinent is a word often associated with him. But guys like him make our society freer and his enables free speach.

He has now opened his blog, and is experimenting with video with us at vpod.tv. I’m delighted. If you agree or disagree with him, please do that on his blog.

Oh, he’s releasing a book on Madame Chirac this week. I understand it’s unauthorized and that it was made after the movie he was making on her was censured. Boy boy… do you think he might actually videoblog it ?

Above, is a first extract of the movie indeed…

(there is a slight audio / video out-of-sync problem, but it was edited that way. I’m told the upcoming videos won’t have the problem). Video updated by Jean-Seb with better sync.

The new kid on the block: Julien Codorniou

Julien Codorniou… Don’t know him yet ?

In 2000, the guy used to be an intern in a famous parisian incubator, Tocamak… Later, after business school, he joined the ETF Group as a very young VC. Because he felt he needed to become more savvy in numbers, he became a financial auditor with the entrepreneurs practice at Ernst & Young for 2 years, auditing tech companies. And because he thought that entrepreneurship was not promoted in France as it should, he went on to inspire and co-write one of the best business books this year: the kelbook, or the story behind the great Kelkoo rise.

And because he was not at the center of the action anymore, he joined Microsoft France a few months ago as a business development manager bridging the tech worlds, the entrepreneurs world, and the venture capital world again. Not even a month into the job, a picture of him with Steve Ballmer (Microsoft’s CEO showed up discreetly on his photo stream on Flickr; it’s disappeared dude…). and 3 months into the job, he co-organized a private conference for noone else than Mr. Bill Gates here in Paris, bringing in 500 people in the industry.

At a recent conference of entrepreneurs and VCs at SGAM, his boss, the CEO of Microsoft France, named him as the single point of contact for all entrepreneurs and VCs with Microsoft… Proof in this footage:

Lastly, the world’s #1 blogger, Mr. Robert Scoble himself is giving him a little Google Juice on his blog…

Weakenesses ? his addiction to his mobile phone, he suck at squash, too much sun tan for a serious workaholic, and I beat him on Mario Kart last week!

Oh, and I forgot. He’s 27.