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Internet Newspeak

June 2, 2008 | Author: Vinh

There’s whole linguo coming with internet business.

Everyone used to be Web2.0. To be trendy, you had to be something else and use very marketing words like “user centric”, “share the love”, “evangelist” and all those are clearly the signs that you belong to the right tribe.

Now money is such a bad word. Return on investment (ROI) is something for financiers and VC. Entrepreneurs should just try to add value to the community and be useful. Money shouldn’t be an entrepreneur concern. Like Twitter, Be useful! Be creative! Make something that people want! Spread the love!
Money is not important, and anyway it’ll come later.

Bullshit.

Money is the blood of every economy. If you don’t have money in mind when trying to do something big… You might as well play with an electric train in your parents’attic.

Money makes you happy. It buys success, skills, and good looks.
Friends like it, employees love it.

But let’s keep in mind that customer satisfaction is just a mean to get money in.

If you say passion is the most important, you can consider money like a way to fuel your pa$$ion.

¥€$$$, pa$$ion matt€r$$.
That was a post sponsored by the Capitalist Economy.

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Ex girlfriends on facebook, keep or get rid?

June 1, 2008 | Author: Vinh

That must have happened to you, but now I have a fair amount of ex girlfriends in my facebook contacts.

What should I do with that?
Quite frankly, you always have that strange reaction when you see such a well known face in your contact… The good thing is that you don’t have to look falsely ecstatic when meeting her back. “Oh how are you doing? Great! Oh You are moving in with your new boyfriend! That’s great news! You can’t know how thrilled I am”. And you keep on babbling until you find a way out for a “meeting with friends” but it was nice seeing her, you say it would be nice having a drink…

Until you realize that should not be something you should wonder about.

With facebook, you can track everything in you mini-feed without even asking for it.
Why do they tell you that your ex-girlfriend is listed as single again.
another one got married. You see her husband’s page. You see posts of his ex girlfriends on his wall posts.
Your insane stalking goes on, and you want to know EVERYTHING. Another ex did not know how to set her visibility setting, and without knowing, she could also be tracked without being in anyone’s contact, but suscribing to the wrong network.

And you hate to see one of them putting you in the limited profile list.

You wonder what kind of past experience your girlfriend has.
So you keep looking at her wall posts, draw social graphs, to see specific group of friends and try to understand how they met and how long they stayed.

Well, that could be a good facebook app: rate my ex.
You display picture of your ex, and you ask people to rate them.

Pheww. Sorry, just a moment of insanity.
Of course, I really never did that, because I don’t have time for that.
But a twisted mind would.

Careful about your visibility.

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The art of presentation

May 31, 2008 | Author: Vinh

When it comes to what I was doing at Airbus, there is one essential skill I learnt:
Presentation skill.

- You never know how bad you are until someone points out everything that’s wrong with you on a videotape. Face it, the guy on the screen is you, and you never thought making pauses was that important.
- MESSAGES. MESSAGES. MESSAGES. What’s your message? If you don’t have any, just shut up. A message should be strong and concise.
- Structure. As they say, a good storyline makes a story worth hearing. Use the structure to help the audience assimilate the messages.
- Powerpoint is not – a prompter, -a brain dump, -a proof that you did your homework.
Look at those great presentations on slideshare.net, they will show you how presentations should be done.

When presentation becomes conversation. That’s the best part.
When the audience is just someone you talk to in a casual way, then everyone feel adressed personnally.
You make some jokes, and you talk about your personal experience.

That’s what everybody likes.

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I thought this was a real article!

May 26, 2008 | Author: Vinh

Future of Mankind!

May 25, 2008 | Author: Vinh

I remember that futurama episode.
They were depicting the end of mankind.

What was happening, was that robots became so sophisticated that they could completely replace humans for everything, including the most important: sexual activity.

As people had everything they needed readily available in their bed, they felt no drive to go outside or do anything. Slowly but surely, mankind was brought to an end.

To a certain extent, it resembles Matrix (you know, the movie, not the mathematical object), where you choose to be ecstatic in a virtual life or live a real life whatever it is, knowing that you would not know the difference.

To my mind, we’ve already lost track or “Reality” as we knew it.
We’re all wired to computers and cell phones, talking to electronic devices like they were real people, watching TV as if those things were really happening.

I want to believe.

From left to right: Agents Brown, Smith, and JonesImage via Wikipedia

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Now, taking the lazy steps to blogging

May 24, 2008 | Author: Vinh

This is a scan of Plate 3 from Ferdinand Bauer's Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae. The plant featured is Banksia coccinea (Scarlet Banksia).Image via WikipediaWith automated content illustration and link providing, content becomes the only thing that’s left to do.
I can’t just provide a fancy picture and a video and say “fancy that?”.

Strange links.
But algorithms can’t be wrong.
They just understand things that you don’t.

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Cool! Now my schedule is booked 1 week in advance

May 22, 2008 | Author: Vinh

Pheww first step to becoming a super-busy entrepreneur…
I got my whole schedule tightly packed.
No room for anything else… Cold calling, watching TV, coffee breaks, writing to-do lists are essential…

quite interesting turn of events, as long as I RESPECT my lifestyle. TV series IS a part of my lifestyle. And putting RANDOM words in caps also IS.

BTW, .. I’m inviting friends for dinners today. We’re replicating “Un dîner presque parfait”, and now it’s my turn to impress my friends with my special cuisine.
I prepared everything. A theme, the music, the ingredients.

I am overly motivated, I am not good at cooking, but I love to compete.
I’ll tell you more about that.
Gotta shop.

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Why you should PDF all your documents!

May 21, 2008 | Author: Vinh

Just read that great article. That Rick, who is a Venture Capitalist, gets a business plan in a word format and gets all the reviews that have been done before.
Great things such as:
“When you talk through this point on your slides, make Chanukah jokes, he is Jewish and will get them”
“VCs are typically stupid when it comes to this section so be prepared for a dumb question blizzard.”

Or maybe that’s a mistake you want to make, so that you pass messages through your previous edits.
“Our company is so cool, people will pay to work for it”
“Our work force? Overly motivated outsourced interns …”
“Rick, we love you.”

Cheers

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The big bang theory…

May 20, 2008 | Author: Vinh

Ok it’s not going to be a geeky post about how the entire universe was created and how everything will en through a Giant Big Crunch or enlessly spread (Big Chill) depending on the universe density.

No. Nothing of that sort.

It’s mostly a post about the Tv series.

I never really felt like a geek. Now I do.
When that guy comes in with vertical stripes (with varying width), he asks “What’s my costume?”. The girl answer “A zebra?”.
Other nerd comes in and says “The doppler effect!”.
Right choice.

I must say that that joke cracked me up. And so many times, all the geeky jokes are soooooo funny.
Makes me believe that those jokes are more effective because they only address a certain tribe.
Now that I know I’m a geek… I guess I should start coding parties at my place.
The disguise theme is “Free the Mallocs!”, let’s meet at 127.0.0.0.

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Great time at the Incubator!

May 19, 2008 | Author: Vinh

We had an incubator evening! All the entrepreneurs gathered at one place, in a special “Tarot, Belote, Poker, Disco”
Sharing all the experience, talking about innovation in all areas of life.
Common points of all of us: We want to change the world we live in and occasionnaly make some bucks.
From the engine that works on excrements, the ecological brick, the 4D Aircraft simulation, everyone tries to make something and can talk about it for hours.
I could.

We saw all those people discussing in a splendid atmosphere, taking a break from investors search and administrative work.

That was just an evening as an entrepreneur in Toulouse.
Thanks to the incubator.

Everything seems so right when you do what you’re made for.

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