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TweetDeck should sell licenses to enterprises (to reach consumers)

Posted Feb 27 2009 by Julien Le Nestour in Start-Up musings with View Comments

Sev­eral really smart investors have recently funded Tweet­Deck, an advanced twit­ter client. The mon­e­ti­za­tion in the con­sumer mar­ket is still an open ques­tion, as there are few bar­ri­ers to entry and sus­tain­able dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion will be hard to achieve.
What­ever the mon­e­ti­za­tion option, it can already be accel­er­ated and increased, by play­ing at the edge of the …

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A few thoughts on Yammer, a twitter-like for organizations

Posted Dec 19 2008 by Julien Le Nestour in Start-Up musings with View Comments

Yam­mer is an SAAS clone of Twit­ter, pro­vid­ing pri­vate net­works for groups and com­pa­nies. See this post for a good descrip­tion of the ser­vice.
When Yam­mer won the TC50, we wit­nessed two sequen­tial waves of reac­tions. The first was lauda­tory and praised a com­pany that found how to mon­e­tize a ser­vice like Twit­ter, where it had …

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Do you know I have 8 children ?

Posted Jun 30 2008 by Julien Le Nestour in Corporate musings with View Comments

Well, I don’t. But if I did, by read­ing my tweets, you would surely know. And if we met, that’s one pecu­liar­ity about me you would already know. In fact, you would already know a lot about me. Likely, many of the things you would know after a lit­tle while, should we develop a rela­tion­ship.
Normally, …

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OPML file, not a tweet">The new resume: an OPML file, not a tweet

Posted Apr 21 2008 by Julien Le Nestour in Macro Principles with View Comments

While Stow Boyd is jump­ing on Amanda Mooney’s tweet that
The new resume is 140 char­ac­ters or less
Soo­cial, a Dutch startup excit­ing in and for itself, asked for this items when recruit­ing:
If you feel you can help us out we have a few jobs open so send us your OPML along with your cv and vcf to stefan …

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