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...audience was Jean-Noël Grandval, who along with colleague Alexandre Dayon left Business Objects in 1999 to start InStranet. Its "enterprise information exchange software" helps companies become more efficient. Like Business Objects, which invested in this start-up, InStranet moved sales and management to the U.S., leaving research and development behind in Paris. Other entrepreneurs are thinking even more broadly. Take Arisem, a knowledge management company based in Paris. It told potential investors in a prospectus handed out during the Tech Tour that it wants to emulate France?s Vivendi Universal for its corporate strategy, Germany...
Though lack of management expertise is often cited as another weakness, the country?s pool of seasoned executives is starting to get larger, says Jean-Bernard Schmidt, president of a Paris-based venture-capital fund, Sofinnova Partners. Consider the career of Pierre Liautaud, another Tech Tour participant and the brother of Business Objects? CEO. This Liautaud started at IBM in 1982, first as an engineer for IBM France and later as vice president of marketing for its Internet unit in the U.S. He left Big Blue in 1999, returning to France to take the job of CEO of @Viso...
...Quincy. Both Mahon and Frumkin have refused to be interviewed, calling it “too risky.” When repeatedly pestered by a reporter, the two sent an e-mail again refusing to be questioned, but asking that any article about them include the following quote from Jean Baudrillard’s “Our Theater of Cruelty” : “The media are terrorists in their own fashion, working continually to produce (good) sense, but, at the same time, violently defeating it by arousing everwhere [sic] a fascination without scruples, that...
...Jean-Paul Sartre once said "It occurs to me that New York is about to acquire a history, that it already has its ruins. This to adorn with a little softness the harshest city in the world." Yes, we have our ruins. We also have our songwriters. In the glory days of Tin Pan Alley, so-called songpluggers used to accost vaudeville vocalists, pushing them to perform their new compositions in hopes that they would make them into hits. New York is still just as aggressive, just as hungry, when it comes to songwriting. If Sting (who has an apartment...
written by Jean Genet...