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		<title>Notifixious at SFBeta</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Notifixious demoed at SFBeta : it was actually Notifixious&#8217;s first &#8220;public appearance&#8221; and I have to say that I was not ready at all : the version that I showed is slow and buggy while the &#8220;next one&#8221; is not yet ready&#8230; also, the Wifi is very bad at Minna, and my 3G card [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" style="float: right;" src="http://media.tumblr.com/fduuhLohsbrvtewmcdPf2PEw_400.jpg" alt="" width="200" />Yesterday, <a href="http://notifixio.us/">Notifixious</a> demoed at <a href="http://sfbeta.com/uncategorized/midsummer-nights-beta/">SFBeta</a> : it was actually Notifixious&#8217;s first &#8220;public appearance&#8221; and I have to say that I was not ready at all : the version that I showed is slow and buggy while the &#8220;next one&#8221; is not yet ready&#8230; also, the Wifi is very bad at Minna, and my 3G card was not working very well, since I was in the back room. Anyway, I &#8220;jumped&#8221; in the fire and finally everything went well! Special thanks to <a href="http://www.virtualgoodz.com/">Simon</a> who was a great coach <img src='http://www.ouvre-boite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>First, I was surprised by the <strong>number and the quality of people who actually came and asked about Notifixious</strong>, some of them challenged me with very smart questions! Not that I expected people to ask stupid question, but I was really expecting to spend half of my time waiting for people to come&#8230; These guys and girls, wether they were students or actually CEO of successful startups (yeah, <a href="http://www.blognewcomb.com/blog/">one of them</a> sold his last week to MS) were great and gave me a good feedback :</p>
<p>- the <strong>name is awfully poor</strong>: I know, and I&#8217;m working on it&#8230; hopefully I&#8217;ll have some good news in a few weeks</p>
<p>- the <strong>idea is great</strong>, but I really need to improve my &#8220;message&#8221; to convince users to use Notifixious</p>
<p>- <strong>recruiting is gonna be &#8220;pain in the a**&#8221;</strong> (litterally), well, I knew it. Some guys even tried to convince me to switch from Ruby to PHP&#8230;</p>
<p>- <strong>Business models</strong> : hum, I was quite surprised that some people think it&#8217;s gonna be very difficult to monetize such a service, not that I thought it&#8217;d be easy, but I have so many different ideas that I expect at least one to work well!</p>
<p>Next step: I collected a ton of business cards and I will have to send an invite to join <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Notifixious/30485715912">Notifixious on Facebook</a> to all of them <img src='http://www.ouvre-boite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> You&#8217;re welcome to do so as well!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret for anyone, but hiring is probably one of the most challenging topics for a start-up, specifically hiring the very first employees. This is clearly my #1 focus today! And I&#8217;ll show you what I&#8217;ll do! But prior to this, let me explain first why it&#8217;s difficult.
 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s no secret for anyone, but<strong> hiring is probably one of the most challenging</strong> topics for a start-up, specifically hiring the very first employees. This is clearly my #1 focus today! And I&#8217;ll show you what I&#8217;ll do! But prior to this, let me explain first why it&#8217;s difficult.</p>
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<li><strong>Talent black holes </strong>: Google, Apple, and even some very sexy start-ups are less than 50 miles away : what do you expect? Notifixious stock options are worth more than Yahoo&#8217;s, but less than Facebook&#8217;s</li>
<li><strong>We need &#8220;start-upers&#8221;</strong> : not everybody can/will/want to work for a start-up : it&#8217;s a lot of painful  work, at no time and with no &#8220;instant-reward&#8221;! Also, there is clearly not all the &#8220;comfort&#8221; of a &#8220;coporate&#8221; job, with an assistant, an IT department, or even &#8220;unlimited&#8221; resources! And, even though San Francisco has more of these profiles, there is also more start-ups than in any other place on earth!</li>
<li><strong>I&#8217;m nobody</strong> : most of the time, the founding team is a team of long-time friends or colleagues. People know each other, and the value of their start-up mates because they&#8217;ve been working together, because they know someone who worked with them or even because they already succeeded in some previous ventures! I&#8217;m a &#8220;young&#8221; french dude and I have never worked for any startup here or even graduated from Stanford or Berkeley&#8230; it&#8217;s not very easy to be introduced all around!</li>
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<div>Anyway, I&#8217;m starting these days an aggressive strategy to mitigate all this : stay tuned <img src='http://www.ouvre-boite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the key success factors when you create a start-up is definetely to stay focus and work as much as you can. This is very complicated, specially when you&#8217;re alone and when you do not have team members to challenge you, to help you and to motivate! I have always had some &#8220;focusing problems&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the key success factors when you create a start-up is definetely to stay focus and work as much as you can. This is very complicated, specially when you&#8217;re alone and when you do not have team members to challenge you, to help you and to motivate! I have always had some &#8220;focusing problems&#8221; and I really had to find a way to keep my productivity at the highest, despite the fact that I do not have a boss, that I could spend some time wandering on the web, arrive &#8220;late&#8221; at my offices&#8230; And then I remembered high-school!</p>
<p>In France, but I guess it&#8217;s the same everywhere in the world, classes last between 1h30 and 2h. There is a good reason why : it&#8217;s not sustainable for teenagers to focus any longer. Well, I do the same by cuting my day in 1h30 - 2h sessions where I am only doing one task. It&#8217;s not every day the same task at the same time, but its no longer than 2h and most of the time, no shorter than 1h30. And between 2 sessions, I usually take a break! I also try to work in many different places : at home, at the office, in cafés&#8230; The idea is to reset the &#8220;focus&#8221; counter every time I can by changing the subject I&#8217;m working one, the place where I&#8217;m working, the people I am working with, and even the kind of music I&#8217;m listening to!</p>
<p>In the good days, I can have up to 8 sessions (3 in the morning, 3 in the afternoon and 2 after dinner!), which adds up to roughly to 12-15hours of work per day, every day! In the weekend days I try to do at least 4 sessions. </p>
<p>And you, how do you stay focus?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[1st of July is officially my first day as an entrepreneur. Well, actually it&#8217;s the first day of the first month were nobody&#8217;s going to pay me for the work I&#8217;ve done for them. Since I&#8217;m not working for anyone else, I needed to find a little nest where I could set up and I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1st of July is officially my first day as an entrepreneur. Well, actually it&#8217;s the first day of the first month were <em>nobody&#8217;s going to pay me</em> for the work I&#8217;ve done for them. Since I&#8217;m not working for anyone else, I needed to find a little nest where I could set up and I found it : <a href="http://parisoma.wordpress.com/about/">PariSoma</a>.</p>
<p>When you bootstrap a start-up, you do not have a lot of money and you need some co-workers to keep you in a working -and not bloging, for example- mind. The best solution is to find a co-working space. I found 3 in SF : <a href="http://citizenspace.us/">CitizenSpace</a>, <a href="http://www.sandboxsuites.com/">Sandbox Suites</a> or <a href="http://parisoma.wordpress.com/about/">PariSoma</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the same concept : a desk, a chair, some wifi, and all that you can usually find in an office (scanner, fax, copier, pens, paper, staplers, tape&#8230;). You pay by the month, and its roughly about $500 for &#8220;your own desk&#8221;.  At PariSoma, we also have a nice kitchen, a conference room and a &#8220;splurge space&#8221; with sofas and cushions <img src='http://www.ouvre-boite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> Check out the <a href="http://parisoma.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/a-few-photos-of-the-space/">pictures here</a>.</p>
<p>Ok, back to work now! But if <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=1436+howard+street,+san+francisco,+ca&amp;sll=37.768544,-122.433786&amp;sspn=0.021881,0.031543&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1">you&#8217;re around</a>, do not hesitate to stop by and say hello <img src='http://www.ouvre-boite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Grâce à Notifixio.us, ce matin, je trouve 2 billets écrit par des entrepreneurs français qui ont quitté la France, tout en gardant leur rôle dans leur boîte: Jeremie Berrebi  et François Planque (et j&#8217;en connais d&#8217;autres, comme Bart, à Bangkok). Ca tombe bien, je suis tout pareil, je suis loin du siège social de Jobetudiant.net, mais ça [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grâce à <a href="http://www.notifixio.us">Notifixio.us</a>, ce matin, je trouve 2 billets écrit par des entrepreneurs français qui ont quitté la France, tout en gardant leur rôle dans leur boîte: <a href="http://www.berrebi.org/2008/06/29/ces-entrepreneurs-qui-quittent-la-france/">Jeremie Berrebi</a>  et <a href="http://fplanque.net/Blog/softculture/2008/06/29/comment-je-vis-aux-us">François Planque</a> (et j&#8217;en connais d&#8217;autres, comme<a href="http://maboite.blogspot.com/"> Bart, à Bangkok</a>). Ca tombe bien, je suis tout pareil, <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Francisco&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=12&amp;iwloc=addr">je suis loin</a> du <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lyon+france&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=12&amp;iwloc=addr">siège social</a> de <a href="http://www.jobetudiant.net">Jobetudiant.net</a>, mais ça reste ma boîte et je m&#8217;en occupe tant bien que mal! </p>
<p>Honnetement, c&#8217;est pas facile tous les jours, mais c&#8217;est surtout <strong>compliqué &#8220;dans la tête&#8221;</strong>. Les moyens de communication actuels font que l&#8217;on peut être largement aussi efficace dans le même bureau qu&#8217;à 10000km! Jobetudiant.net a 3 employés (en plus de moi, qui ne suis pas employé, d&#8217;ailleurs!). Parmi eux, il y en a 2 que je n&#8217;ai jamais vu de ma vie, et je suis persuadé que je ne les reconnaitrais pas si je les croisais dans la rue. On échange quelques mails par semaine, c&#8217;est tout! Cela dit, je connais le troisième pour les deux autres : c&#8217;est mon petit frère <img src='http://www.ouvre-boite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>En réflechissant bien, je me dis que<strong> je n&#8217;ai jamais vu 99% de mes clients</strong>. Ni le plus gros (Google), avec qui je ne d&#8217;ailleurs jamais eu de contacts qui ne soit pas des mails automatisés, ni le plus petit (environ 80,000 étudiants ex-aequo avec 1 Euros de CA chacun)! </p>
<p><strong>Je n&#8217;ai jamais vu mon hébergeur web</strong> non plus : on se tape dessus par email à intervalles réguliers, et ils m&#8217;envoient leur mail &#8220;promo&#8221; pour une sauvegarde automatisée toutes les semaines, mais j&#8217;ai du les avoir au téléphone au max 6 fois en 30 mois de collaboration!</p>
<p><strong>J&#8217;ai beaucoup vu ma comptable, au moins 5 fois</strong>! D&#8217;ailleurs, je pense que c&#8217;est ma plus grosse interlocutrice extérieure.</p>
<p>Au final, même si beaucoup rechignent, et je suis sûr que beaucoup de clients potentiels se rétractent parce qu&#8217;<strong>ils aimeraient avoir un contact physique avec moi</strong>, la plus grosse barrière est psychologique : pour beaucoup de gens de &#8220;la vieille génération&#8221;, on n<em>e peut pas faire affaire si on s&#8217;est pas topé dans les mains</em>! Enfin, il va falloir qu&#8217;ils changent, parce qu&#8217;avec l&#8217;explosion des coûts des transports et l&#8217;implosion des coûts des communications, &#8220;l&#8217;entrepreneur en déplacement&#8221; est une espèce en voie de disparition!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no day without the anouncement of an top exec or VP leaving Yahoo!. Of course, everyone complains and says that they&#8217;ll be missed at Yahoo! Individually, yes, maybe, but collectively, it&#8217;s not that sure!
If Yahoo! is where it is today, it&#8217;s not only because of Jerry Yang. He joined a year ago because Yahoo! [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no day without the anouncement of an <strong>top exec or VP leaving Yahoo!</strong>. Of course, everyone complains and says that they&#8217;ll be missed at Yahoo! Individually, yes, maybe, but collectively, it&#8217;s not that sure!</p>
<p>If Yahoo! is where it is today, it&#8217;s <strong>not only because of Jerry Yang.</strong> He joined a year ago because Yahoo! was <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/yahoo-ceo-terry-semel-resigned/">already in trouble</a>&#8230; dominated by Google and forced to buy tons of early stage start-up (Flickr, delicious&#8230;)  because<strong> they lost their &#8220;innovative&#8221;</strong> spirit and feared that any of them would beat them on specific products. </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it,<strong> collectively, Yahoo&#8217;s management failed in the last 5 years</strong> and, more than never, <strong>they need some &#8220;fresh air&#8221;, new ideas, new challenges and, of course, <em>new people</em></strong>. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen at Yahoo! and if it will &#8220;survive&#8221; its massive exodus, but I know that if nothing had changed, Yahoo! would have probably been &#8220;dead&#8221; within 2 years. </p>
<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re not sure you want to stay at Yahoo!, take the opportunity to join a very ambitious startup : Notifixious. We&#8217;re looking for top developers with <strong>strong knowledge of Ruby On Rails, Jabber (XMPP), or Amazon&#8217;s AWS</strong>! And, hey, it&#8217;s bootstrapped and we plan on raising funds very soon, so <em>your options here will be worth more that the one you received at Yahoo! last year</em> <img src='http://www.ouvre-boite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[En tout cas, pour moi, c&#8217;est le cas. Voilà maintenant près d&#8217;un mois que je cours de démarche administrative en démarche administrative, que je me noie dans les formulaires et que je suis pendu au téléphone avec ma/mes avocats! Je vous jure que cela n&#8217;a pas été aussi laborieux pour Jobetudiant.net!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>En tout cas, pour moi, c&#8217;est le cas. Voilà maintenant près d&#8217;un mois que je cours de <em>démarche administrative en démarche administrative</em>, que je me noie dans les formulaires et que je suis pendu au téléphone avec ma/mes avocats! Je vous jure que cela n&#8217;a pas été aussi laborieux pour Jobetudiant.net!</p>
<p>Pour être totalement honnête, je dirais même qu&#8217;il est plus complexe de créer sa société ici, à San Francisco. Déjà, contrairement à la France, vous êtes <strong>techniquement obligé de passer par un avocat</strong>, ensuite, il y a sans doute<strong> autant de structures différentes</strong> (C Corp, LLC, S Corp&#8230;) ici qu&#8217;en France (SARL, SA, Eurl&#8230;), après, vous devez prendre garde à la géographie et en particulier <strong>choisir l&#8217;état</strong> dans lequel vous souhaitez incorporer&#8230; etc.  Et je ne parle même pas du <strong>problème des visas</strong>, qui touche en plus les étrangers!</p>
<p>On croise beaucoup de gens qui viennent ici avec l&#8217;<strong>espoir de monter une boîte</strong>&#8230; il y a pour le coup beaucoup moins de gens qui le font vraiment et, même si la principale barrière reste dans la tête, on ne peut qu&#8217;admirer ceux qui auront su dompter l&#8217;administration américaine! Mes pérégrinations m&#8217;ont amenées à croiser pas mal d&#8217;autres entrepreneurs ici et je profite de ce billet pour leur <strong>tirer mon chapeau</strong>, en leur souhaitant encore plus de réussite que ce qu&#8217;ils méritent!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[La saison de recherche des jobs d&#8217;été bat son plein et ça se sent! Le mois de Mai 2008 a été le meilleur mois de l&#8217;histoire de Jobetudiant.net et ce, malgré les ponts et viaducs de début Mai. Tout d&#8217;abord, sur le mois, plus de 23000 étudiants se sont inscrits!  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La saison de recherche des <a href="http://www.jobetudiant.net/etudiant/jobs-d-ete.php">jobs d&#8217;été</a> bat son plein et ça se sent! Le mois de Mai 2008 a été le meilleur mois de l&#8217;histoire de <a href="http://www.jobetudiant.net">Jobetudiant.net</a> et ce, malgré les ponts et viaducs de début Mai. Tout d&#8217;abord, sur le mois, plus de 23000 étudiants se sont inscrits!  </p>
<p>Pour ce qui est de l&#8217;audience du site, elle grimpe encore, malgré nos <a href="http://www.ouvre-boite.com/2008/05/02/job-dete-pour-google-ce-nest-plus-jobetudiantnet/">petits soucis de référencement</a> : +10,3% de pages vues par rapport au mois d&#8217;avril, pour +6,7% de pages vues.</p>
<p>Pour ce qui est des chiffres, je n&#8217;ai pas encore tout, mais nous avons sans doute fait le plus gros mois en termes de CA : de l&#8217;ordre de 15,000 Euros, malgré la faiblesse du dollar des pubs Adsense. Sachant que tous les coûts de Jobetudiant.net sont fixes, la marge devrait, elle aussi gonfler.</p>
<p>Enfin, et c&#8217;est sand doute le meilleur : les étudiants et les recruteurs sont toujours plus satisfaits de Jobetudiant.net : <a href="http://www.jobetudiant.net/temoignages.php">consultez les témoignages</a>!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[O&#8217;Reilly made it clear when he &#8220;invented&#8221; the concept of Web 2.0 : he thought that the value was in the data collected by website and web-services. There is not a single day where I can&#8217;t see Data-Portability within my twitter feed, or within a source I&#8217;m following with Notifixio.us. The concept behind it is that the User Generated [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O&#8217;Reilly made it clear when he &#8220;invented&#8221; the concept of Web 2.0 : he thought that <strong>the value was in the data</strong> collected by website and web-services. There is not a single day where I can&#8217;t see Data-Portability within my twitter feed, or within a source I&#8217;m following with <a href="http://www.notifixio.us">Notifixio.us</a>. The concept behind it is that the <strong>User Generated Data/Content actually belongs to the users themselves</strong> and not to the platform they&#8217;ve been uploaded to. The consequence is services like <a href="http://www.friendfeed.com">Friendfeed</a> are &#8220;pulling&#8221; the valuable data from the platform they&#8217;ve been originally put to. Despite the <a href="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/05/web-discussions.html">bad consequence discussed by Fred Wilson</a>, it also brings the question of whether the value is <em>still</em> in the data?</p>
<p>My answer to this is clearly no! Even though having tons of videos helps generating ad revenues, my bet is that sooner or later, the &#8220;best&#8221; content-generating the most page views- is slightly being &#8220;pulled&#8221; away from <a href="http://www.youtube.com">Youtube</a> and scattered into hundred of aggregators, or widgets. </p>
<p>For me, the &#8220;value&#8221; is in the ability to <strong>&#8220;transform&#8221; the data, extract the &#8220;collective intelligence&#8221; and give/sell it back to the users</strong>. In that approach, I think that services like <a href="http://www.fuelfrog.com">FuelFrog</a>, or <a href="http://www.wesabe.com">Wesabe</a> can prove to be very valuable in the near future. In these services, the value of the data is actually worthless and not even generating any page views (who cares that I spent $60 in gas at the Texaco on Lombard Street?), but the gathering of thousands of similar information can maybe help build a realtime database of the cheapest gas station around me, or help understand which vehicles have the highest MPG in the Bay Area : this is of course great value!</p>
<p>While building <a href="http://www.notifixio.us">Notifixio.us</a>, I am very much concentrating on this : extracting &#8220;intelligence&#8221; from the data we&#8217;re gathering to return it to the user and build a <strong>strong and long-term competitive advantage</strong>!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.zappos.com">Zappos</a>, on ne connait pas forcément en France, mais c&#8217;est un vendeur de chaussures par Internet. J&#8217;imagine que beaucoup doutent de la pertinence, et c&#8217;est légitime, mais le simple fait de savoir qu&#8217;ils devraient faire $1Mds de CA en 2008 devrait vous convaincre qu&#8217;il y a une vraie demande&#8230; Mais ce n&#8217;est pas l&#8217;objet de ce billet! Zappos est aussi une société très en avance sur les techniques du <strong>Management 2.0</strong> et met en place tout un tas d&#8217;innovations intéressantes. La dernière en date : <strong>une prime de départ à ses nouveaux employés</strong>!Si vous êtes employé par Zappos, vous allez d&#8217;abord passer près d&#8217;un mois en &#8220;formation&#8221;, et vous allez en particulier passer dans tous les services de la société pour voir comment elle s&#8217;articule, comment elle fonctionne. Vous êtes évidement payés comme pour un mois normal; cependant, à la fin du mois, on vous propose de quitter Zappos avec une prime de $1000!</p>
<p>La première idée derrière cela est que Zappos pense que si vous êtes pret à accepter le chèque, c&#8217;est que <em>votre &#8220;commitment&#8221; -votre motivation et votre attachement au job- est trop faible pour vous garder</em>. Cela se défend. Cela dit, en regardant d&#8217;un peu plus près, on se rend compte qu&#8217;il y a derrière cela une technique de &#8220;<strong>manipulation</strong>&#8221; -comme expliqué dans le <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/Petit-traité-manipulation-lusage-honnêtes/dp/2706110449">livre de R.V. Joule</a>-. La théorie de R.V. Joule est que l&#8217;<strong>on est engagé par ses actes &#8220;libres&#8221;</strong>. En gros, l&#8217;humain a tendance à prendre position a posteriori sur des actes qu&#8217;il a fait librement dans le passé. Dans le cas de Zappos, c&#8217;est simple, <strong>les employés qui auront refusé le chèque &#8220;apprécieront&#8221; d&#8217;autant plus leur job qu&#8217;ils auront refusé de prendre le chèque</strong>! </p>
<p>Il y a une seconde manipulation dans la proposition. Si vous refusez le chèque, c&#8217;est sans doute parce que vous espérer y gagner plus en restant, et c&#8217;est ce qui fait que v<strong>ous aurez encore plus tendance à rester chez Zappos à l&#8217;avenir</strong>, car vous aurez la sensation d&#8217;avoir &#8220;perdu&#8221; les $1000 si finalement vous partez, même au bout de 6 mois! On comprends mieux avec l&#8217;exemple de Mme O. qui attend un bus à minuit sous la pluie&#8230; au bout de quelques secondes, un taxi passe, mais Mme O. se dit que le bus n&#8217;est pas loin, et qu&#8217;elle préfère économiser la course en attendant quelques minutes&#8230; si deux minutes après un second taxi passe, elle le préférera toujours attendre, en se  justifiant en disant que le bus est maintenant encore plus proche&#8230;. et ainsi de suite, jusqu&#8217;à ce que que finalement elle prenne un taxi 1/2h plus tard, ayant eu du coup les 2 inconvénients (attente longue, et cout elevé du taxi)!</p>
<p>Vous l&#8217;aurez compris, Zappos ne vous fait vraiment pas un cadeau en proposant son chèque&#8230;</p>
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