Netvibes: a true entrepreneur school !

It was a few months that this Netviber Experience blog was sleeping, when, just a few days ago, was launched the new start-up of Tariq Krim, the Founder and former CEO of Netvibes : Jolicloud.com, the EasySimple cloud-based netbook Os.

As I am very interested in the subject, I checked for Tariq Krim's new Team and I was not surprised to see working with him 2 former interns at Netvibes, the best Personalized Startpage.

That gave me the idea to check "What the other Netvibes team members have become ?"

And after a few searches and emails here is the result:

First, the team running Netvibes after his departure, is still the one he hired : Freddy Mini (CEO) , Annabelle Malherbe (CFO), Franck Mahon (VP Product) Florent Solt (CTO) , Maurice Sway (Lead Designer) , Stefan Lecher and Chris Damson (Business development).
Second, what strikes me the most is that Tariq Krim is not only one of the best Web talent-scout but also that his presence, his visions and charisma have produced what I would call an "European start-up syndrome" similar at what you can see in the Silicon Valley.
Just check the list of Former Netvibes' team members or interns, that have spread out of Netvibes and you will agree with me !

This list is in no particular order and if somebody knows more, please let me know ;-)

"Génération Netvibes" : the entrepreneurs vibes,

- Romain Huet,
Co-Founder of JoliCloud with Tariq Krim
Lead Developer
http://www.jolicloud.com

- Hubert Michaux,
Co-founder & CEO at HelloCoton
http://www.Hellocoton.fr

Victor Cerutti,
Co-founders & CTO at HelloCoton
http://www.Hellocoton.fr

- François Hodierne,
Founder at h6e and ladistribution

http://www.ladistribution.net

http://h6e.net
Founder at Blogmarks.net
http://blogmarks.net

- Marc Thouvenin,
Founder and CEO of Regioneo
http://www.regioneo.com

- Alexander Kirk,
Founder of Factolex (Austria)
http://www.factolex.com

- Gang Lu,
Co-Founder of OpenWeb Asia
http://www.openweb.asia

- Colin Romain,
Founder and CEO of Fubiz
http://www.fubiz.net/

- Florent Gibeaud,
Co-Founder of Investside and Keo Networks
http://www.investside.com/

- Christophe Dufour,
Co-Founder and CEO of Investside
http://www.investside.com/
Co-Founder and CEO of Keo Networks
http://www.keonetworks.com/

- Aurélien Faches,
Co-Founder of Aaaliens
http://aaaliens.com/

- Michael Cohen,
Founder and CEO of a new company (if anyone has the name let me know)

- Jean Francois Groff,
CTO at Fairtilizer and founder at Vizta
http://fairtilizer.com

UPDATE:
- Nicolas Dangler, mixin.Com
Co-Founder of Mixin.com
http://Mixin.com


I also tracked the others who left:

- Antoine Marguerie,
Lead Designer at Fairtilizer
http://fairtilizer.com

- Laure Chouillou ,
Communication Manager at Forum Netexplorateur

- François Bureau,
Support & QA Manager at Citiesxl
http://www.citiesxl.com

- Tristan Groléat,
Intern at Jolicloud
http://www.jolicloud.com

So, 13 14 people left Netvibes to create their own company and become an entrepreneur, 4 are in the internet start-up business and, as far as I know, the rest of the team is still in place,

Preparing this list, I also thought at all of those who were influenced by Tariq Krim' Netvibes approach and, yes, I admit it, I was among them !

First, I just launched a new blog about ... Jolicloud , called : JoliCloud Experience !

But that is not all, I am also preparing to launch a new Web Venture with my partner Kim : 1PRISM.com

So, Thanks Tariq ! And, Who is Next ? ;-)

... and Netviber Experience' (NetEx) blog will stop here !

Hi to all my readers,

When I started this Netviber Experience' blog in December 2006, Netvibes was a young 1 year old start-up.

Now Netvibes has turned 3 and is a "mature company" ;-).

I think that this blog has completed its mission and I have decided that this will be my last post here !

Don't be sad, I will continue to participate with my own posts in Netvibes itself.

Just follow me from my Universe: http://www.netvibes.com/netviberexperience .
(click on my profile and add me to your friends. It will be a pleasure for me :-)

Then I will also continue to post on twitter, friendfeed, facebook, ...

So thank you to all and...

Arrivederci !

Happy Brithday, Netvibes !!! 3 Years !!!

Time flies !!

Jouyeux Anniversaire !!!

Buon Conpleanno !!!

Happy Birthday !!!

Netvibes never closes, but this NetEx Blog does...

... so I will take 2 weeks off. No, do not cry ! I will be back :-)

And do you want to know what are the books I'll take with me ? Well, just check the cover here. It was spotted my 5 years old daughter among millions of books.

And It is just what I was looking for: another vision on our everchanging life

Microtrends: Surprising Tales of the Way We Live Today
by Mark J. Penn, E. Kinney Zalesne

It has good reviews and looks as good bet for a summer reading with kids around. I'll let you know...

And I will bring also The Best Seller "Millenium" novel series by STIEG LARSSON.

All I read about it is this : "An epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents, the novel takes in complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family."

Please to not tell me how it ends :) but feel free to leave me your own reading suggestions !

All It Takes To Inflate Your FeedBurner Numbers Is a Netvibes Account . Check http://ping.fm/mSveK

Confirmed Water on Mars: Biggest science news of the decade ?

Confirmed Water on Mars: that is gretest news of the decade !

but nobody is reacting :( http://ping.fm/27413

New Netvibes Buzz is here

Fast and set on 48 hours http://ping.fm/Z7TQc . Would love a Weekly and Montly ranking if on holidays;)

New Netvibes Activities board is super fast

try http://ping.fm/nwi68 Suggestion?
I would like to be able to Star them here

want also to be a Beta tester for http://ping.fm ? Use this code: pingadactyl FAST , will not last long ;)

posting from Ping.fm, works also on Blogger

testing ping.fm

I am posting in one click the same update and micro-blogging to all my social services: FB, FF, Identi.ca, Twitter ...

http://www.netvibes.com/buzz is down : Day 2.

Any news??

My worst nightmare ? My Netvibes page invaded by smileys ;

check out this awful Netvibes's clone : smileycentral

Anyone already on identi.ca (OpenSource Twitter-Like) ? Join me!

http://identi.ca/netviber/

Best idea for Summer 2008: TechCrunch's Web Tablet For $200

Nik Cubrilovic and Michael Arrington of tech blog TechCrunch.com have launched what I found the most interesting idea for this Summer: "Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device:
A web Tablet for just 200$"

"Here’s the basic idea: The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have Wifi, maybe one USB port, a built in battery, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4-Gigabyte solid state hard drive. Data input is primarily through an iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. It runs on linux and Firefox. It would be great to have it be built entirely on open source hardware, but including Skype for VOIP and video calls may be a nice touch, too."

The Best part of it is the TOUCH SCREEN and also the collaborative side of the project:

"The goal is to keep the machine very simple and very cheap. I think this will be a lot of fun, and it may just turn into an actual product that we can use to surf the web and talk to our friends.

We’ll be coordinating the project over at TechCrunchIT. Leave a comment there if you want to participate and we’ll be in touch soon."

I like the idea of this low-profile screen that could be in every kitchen and every shop.

More details also here.

I prefer the new Facebook user profile style

check it here http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php

Do you know your Netvibes' user ID number ? Check it out!

mine is: 16994722

Just go here http://www.netvibes.com/activities ,
click on your username in the menu,
go bottom of the page and click on JSON icon there check for the first "userId": the number is your own User ID.

Where are the Netvibes' Communities ?

still little buzz, no ? Why ?

NetEx blog goes also mobile: http://netviberexperience.mofuse.mobi/

I just launched the mobile version of Netviber Experience blog (NetEx) check it out here:

http://netviberexperience.mofuse.mobi/

You will be able to check ideas, tips and data mining on Netvibes from your mobile phone (wap) or iphone ;)

As you can see it is powered by MOFUSE

"MOFUSE gives content publishers, like bloggers, the ability to publish their content to the mobile web. You don't have to be a content publisher to use MoFuse though, anyone can create a mobile website in just a few minutes using the intuitive MoFuse platform."
AND IT SI FREE !

MOFUSE powers already: