Diner with "Les entreprenautes Associés"

I spent a really nice night on tuesday 13. Mathilde (founder of Bagatelles) invited me to join her new group : les entreprenautes associés. I.E. casual dinners gathering young motivated entrepreneurs that started a commercial site or a shop over the Internet... I am NOT talking about 20nagers in suits wanting to become billionaires but people who decided to work for themselves, live the entrepreneur life in a bookstrapping mode. Many of them being women who decided to change their way of life and work after their first child was born.

It was great to meet passionated hard working entrepreneurs such as
- Mathilde from Bagatelles.fr,
- Nathalie from Brocanteo,
- Violette from Mademoiselle-bio.com (cosmectic in an environmental friendly way),
- Bess from Chaussette Online (buy you socks online!),
- Baptiste & Rebecca from Com Boutique (tshirt printing),
- Gilles from Vinivi (portal gathering travels & hotel recommendations),
- Alain  from Lulu les chocolats,
- Thibaud (Fotolia)
- Jérôme from http://www.easylifeconseil.com (brands! if you look for another view about how to improve your products, you should contact him...)
- Stéphane from Magicday.fr (I hope we will have time to chat next time)
- Jean-Hubert from Homequest (helping you in the quest of a new flat),
- François from HelloTipi (give your family a blog to keep in touch!),
- Benjamin from BongBuzz,
- Pauline from Letsbuyit (beware the 2000 startup star is comin back)
- and off course the boss of the restaurant Hadrien from L'assassin (nice name for a Restaurant... it means "the murderer" ;) )trying to share tips, ideas,....

Jean-Hubert created this 100% commercial video :), but at least you will be able to put a name on the face listed on the beginning of this post...

PS : a good summary of the party in french here...

Colophon 2007 : International Creative Magazines meet in Luxembourg

Many seems to believe (and wrongly I must say) that Luxembourg is a quiet and lost little place ;)
So for those who don't know, Luxembourg has been selected as European HeadCity of the Culture for the Year 2007. This "title" means that an amazing number of great  events is happening all around the year.

If you were in the Grand Duchy between the 9 and the 11 of march you could have attempt to one of the most creative event : Colophon 2007. Organised by Mike Koedinger, a Luxembourgish magazine editor and addict (who publishes some of the biggest magazines here in lux : Paperjam, Explorator, ex-Nico, ...), this event had for objective to invite the most creative magazines internationally.

Mission accomplished as I have been able to see.

For 3 days I have been able to talk with editors, designers, illustrators, magazines fanatics from Brazil, Lituania, Asia, France, Netherlands, UK,... 

The Casino d'Art Contemporain was hosting most of the event and offering enough space for the participants to move from the conference room to exhibits area...

...to the bar or to a temporary shop (base in the veranda, aka the aquarium) selling an amazing selection of the most creative mag. From content to design it was an amazing occasion to crawl around creativity...

Little Luxembourg really rocks sometimes!!!

NB : More photos on Flickr....

Blogdelux.lu : Day-8

Only 8 more days before the first bloggers meeting in Luxembourg : http://www.blogdelux.lu.Thanks to all the media that already supported this event such as Radio Ara, Le Wort (the number one information daily newspaper in Luxembourg, in Luxembourgish):

Contacto (the portuguese community newspaper > Luxembourg has a huge portuguese community and few of its big bloggers are blogging in this language) :

La Voix : one the biggest newspaper (in French)

Paperjam (the biggest business, communication and finance magazine)

Les Frontaliers.lu : one of the biggest website in Luxembourg for the French and belgian citizens who travel everyday to come to work in Luxembourg. (the site is operated by the same team who run Jamendo, the web2.0 music community : Laurent Kratz > watch his interview on culture-buzz.c om...).

Station.lu : the information website of the english community in Luxembourg

Finally one of the challenge in the luxembourgish and Great Region blogosphere is one of the charm of the country : the number of used languages. Luxembourgish, french, german, english portuguese, italian,... wow so much languages for such a small country. But so nice to have the opportunity to exchange with people from so many countries and cultures... The world village is maybe finally... Luxembourg...

Blogdelux.lu : Join the first Bloggers meeting in Luxembourg

If you are available on Saturday 27th of January in Luxembourg, join us at http://www.blogdelux.lu for the first bloggers meeting in the area. After a little study we have found more than 150 people blogging in Luxembourg and accross the borders in France, Belgium and Germany... If you have ideas or suggestions to improve or be involve in this event, do not hesitate to contact us...

Video of the Blog Party 2 with Wat.tv

Blog Party 2 with wat.tv

More than 250 bloggers met few days ago for the Blog Party (http://blog.party2.free.fr). Look at this video to have a short summary of the party... Adopt this video by copy and pasting the following code :



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