StoriesOut - Week #7 to 10 - The trick is to keep breathing

Amazingly dense weeks



Well to be quite honest, coming back from 1 uninterrupted sunny week in Spain to find my self under the rain with a loss of 10°C has been pretty challenging for my fighting spirit... But the good news is that rather quickly business and activity took over. So here's what happen during these 4 past weeks.

• Another product launch with Kwaga: Kwaga Context for Google Apps users, brings thread history and social information of email senders, directly in your inbox! Huge step forward in email productivity. If you're on Googel Apps, you MUST try it a) because it is amazingly usefull b) beacuse it's free ;-) - download it here : http://kwaga.com/KwagaContext.html
  
• Bunch of very useful working meetings with great people: Sébastien Renault, President at ClubNet, Renaud Finaz de Villaine, Marketing Director at Micropole univers, Stefane Fermigier, Founder and Chairman at Nuxeo, Véronique Borel, Marketing Manager at Red Hat,
  
• Biz dev was dense and tricky too: not always easy to find the magic balance to fit into budgets...
• I did 2 videos for Nuxeo: Damien Metzler, Software architect at Leroy Merlin and Jean-Marc Orliaguet from Chalmers university in Sweden. That was quite funny and gave me the opportunity to use the Flip camera that Geeknius-the-Great offered me for my birthday ;-)
• And finally I had the chance to attend Microsoft BizSpark European Summit and listen to a Guy Kawasaki presentation. Huge! Discovered as well Restopolitan and Captain Dash, two amazing French startups.
• 20 check-ins on Foursquare ;-)
• 868 views on my youtube channel
  

Montjoie Saint Denis!

StoriesOut - Week #5 & 6

Fabulous weather for two awesome weeks

• Hard work on StoriesOut new Website - It's gonna be awesome! I mean it! Can't wait to launch :-)
• Trying to find interested people to sponsor a Startup Village on a tradeshow in October
• Wasted an enormous amount of time trying to have my bike fixed (I hate garages)
• Relentlessly trying to reach journalists :-s
• Wrote a great case study on one of Nuxeo's customers
• Wonders of mobile workers: attended 2 conf call from awesome places
• 637 views of my 17 videos posted on youtube (youtube.com/user/annedeforsan)
  
• 21 check-ins on Foursquare

StoriesOut - Week #4

More startups!



Week#4 has been incredibly intense:

• My goddamn bike refused to work
  
• I presented the 16 videos I did of startupers from Incubateur Telecom ParisTech at the entire crew of the incubator (they are available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnedeForsan)
• Then one full day of prepping with @dealmeeting to pitch @seedcamp
• The entire Thursday, I was at Seedcamp, presenting and discussing Dealmeeting with other startups and mentors - Kind of exhausting & exciting
  
• The wrap-up party, sponsored by Elaia Partners was a relief : fun talks, drinks and again
• On Friday, Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp CEO came to the incubator and kindly accepted me to shot a short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFjlHGqyuI)
  
• Only 5 checkins- on foursquare and 1 mayorship lost- duh!

See ya next week for more exciting adventures!

StoriesOut - Week #3

4-day weeks make it hectic



Week #3 begun odd: Monday was bank holiday or I should say Egg & Chocolate holiday.

Then my bike refused to work and forced me to subway all short-week long. For the record, when on saturday I decided that I should try to fix it, it was perfectly working... How odd?

Anyway, week#3 has been:

• a lot about thinking,
• 1 interview for Nuxeo
• 1 negociation pending
  
• only 6 4sq check-ins
• many awesome people met
• creation of my youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnedeForsan)
• sushi-work session on my forthcoming web site
• intensively tweeting :-)
  

Let's keep it rolling !

see ya!

StoriesOut - Week#1

In case you'd ask yourself how it looks like when you create your company.




The following items are a digest of what happened this week :

• 1 product launched (Kwaga BirdsEye and some very impressive clippings on TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Jean-Marie Gall's blog, ...)
  
• 5 meetings with prospective customers
• 2 meetings with actual customers
• 1st sales proposal created and sent (panic!)
• 2 impressive business meet-ups attended (Cafe du eCommerce and TechCrunch Paris)
• 3 missed lunchs (Hadn't been told creating your own company was a VERY efficient diet)
  
• zillions of great people met IRL: @pegobry @mounir2012 @moumsinette @mikebutcher @roxannevarza (TechCrunch France is re-launched! Yay!) @laurentk @bjonathan @cgiorgi @pictarine @hypios @allmyapps @qameha ...
  
• and all the usual suspects: Hughes and Pascale from the incubator, @kwagaproduct @PhilippeLaval @MichelRacat @dealmeeting @TeamKadeal @leezamstrories @wwipolo @coletteballou ...
• +100 tweets
• 6 check-ins on foursquare
  

And last but not least: I received my NexusOne!

Now, question is: how to keep this level of intensity?

'Cos truth is: I just LOOOOOVED it !

How was your week#1?