Thomas Barthelet - Blog

How to get traction and reach 1 million users - Lessons learned...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:52:17 +0200

How to get traction and reach 1 million users - Lessons learned from Dropbox and Xobni

Very insightful tips from Dropbox and Xobni founders on how to design your startup product/service so that it reaches a good product/market match and later becomes a global success.

It seams to be good examples of the lean startup principles.

Vision of an interconnected Europe - EU transport roadmap to...

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:59:14 +0200

Vision of an interconnected Europe - EU transport roadmap to 2050

The plan - with goals to be met by 2050 - focuses on travel within cities and between cities, and on long distance journeys. It includes calls for:

cities to completely phase out petrol cars
shifting to rail or water 50% of all passenger and freight road transport currently making intercity journeys of more than 300km
airlines to increase their use of sustainable low-carbon fuels to 40%
shipping to cut 40% off its carbon emissions.

Reaching these targets would help the EU achieve a 60% cut in greenhouse gases from all modes of transport by 2050.

2011: NFC year for Orange Finally, Orange is planning the...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:22:00 +0100

2011: NFC year for Orange

Finally, Orange is planning the roll-out of NFC-enabled SIM cards. The installed base being the key driver to the growth of the services ecosystem, the time might have come to…

“Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:46:37 +0100

“Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.”

-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 31, 2011

The USA introduce the matching fund, will Europe follow?

If— by Rudyard Kipling

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:51:07 +0100

If— by Rudyard Kipling

The Sahara Solar Breeder Project

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:45:22 +0100

The Sahara Solar Breeder Project

Avec la fin de Bretton Woods II, est-il temps de ressortir les pensées de Maurice Allais ?

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:43:42 +0100

Pour chaque limite de la philosphie actuelle des échanges internationaux, sa réponse :

Régime des changes flottants entraînant la spéculation sur les devises
La création monétaire par les banques entraînant régulièrement le dérèglement des crédits et in fine des cycles de récession
Le libre-échangisme qui devient contre-productif à trop grands écarts de niveau de vie
Le retour de facto au protectionnisme qui devrait être “éclairé”

Le débat est ouvert.

"Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some..."

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:51:26 +0200

“Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez-faire capitalism.”

- Friedrich von Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

"You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby."

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:06:00 +0200

““You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.””

- Larry Page

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:00:20 +0200

““Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.””

- Larry Page’s recipe for success

Nouvel épisode de la guerre mondiale des monnaies : la...

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:00:15 +0200

Nouvel épisode de la guerre mondiale des monnaies : la Chine achète de la dette grecque et lève ainsi les freins de la hausse de l’euro.

Password Reuse - xkcd Check this former post about a concrete...

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:06:58 +0200

Password Reuse - xkcd

Check this former post about a concrete hack and solutions to prevent it.

BFM : Chronique de Marc Fiorentino - 24/09 :

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:46:45 +0200

BFM : Chronique de Marc Fiorentino - 24/09 ::

L’ébullition du secteur Internet en France

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once."

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:14:47 +0200

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to..."

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:57:11 +0200

“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”

- Howard Aiken

Dubai Metro (by Shilo)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:26:47 +0200

Dubai Metro (by Shilo)

"[…] Your television, your cars, are all going to have internet connections. You want that same..."

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:14:58 +0200

“[…] Your television, your cars, are all going to have internet connections. You want that same protection. We call this a third pillar of computing. We have energy-efficient performance, we have connectivity, and now we’ve got security.”

- Paul Otellini, Intel’s CEO, after its acquisition of the wireless business of Infineon and McAfee (via Reuters)

From good to great (by Jim Collins)

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:18:35 +0200

From good to great (by Jim Collins)

Introduction to OpenIDEO (by IDEO)

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:13:30 +0200

Introduction to OpenIDEO (by IDEO)

"Free cultures get what they celebrate."

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:36:17 +0200

““Free cultures get what they celebrate.””

- Dean Kamen