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 #2

Another intense week at StoriesOut:

• Kwaga Gmail OAuth support announced and a bunch of very nice clippings (TechCrunch EU, Jean-Marie Gall's blog, Astuces informatiques, NetEco, WebEphemere, ...)
• 1 sales negotiation
• 2 customers meetings
  
• 7 check-ins on Foursquare
• Over 120km rode on my bike

One regret: I couldn't make it for the Allmyapps beer party on Friday night!

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?

Last Day at Nuxeo - Here comes StoriesOut!

Hi all,

Today is my last day at Nuxeo. I'm leaving this great company to create my own: "StoriesOut".

StoriesOut proposes communication services to innovating IT companies, both startups and more established ones:

• PR and press management
• Communication Strategies for Communities (customers, internal communication, online social communities)
• Communication Coaching

I'm delighted to announce StoriesOut's two first customers: Nuxeo and Kwaga !

From Monday 22nd, you'll be able to reach me at:

• mail: annedeforsan@storiesout.com
• cell: +33 6 07 67 30 38
• twitter: @adeforsan
  

I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Ground Control to Major Tom, Commencing countdown, Engines On

6 days to go for a brand new adventure to start (hence the attached pic).



I'll be leaving the comfort of the employee position on March 19th to start StoriesOut, my own company the following Monday.




StoriesOut will be about Social Media, Marketing, PR and Communication services & coaching, primarily to exciting innovating IT startups and incubators. The baseline is "Let's write your story".

Huge excitement and stress.

The past few years have been tremendous. I've learned a lot, discovered even more and met stunning people.

I can't say there's been only one trigger for this shift, probably more the addition of experiences and thoughts. I've been fascinated by the energy of the entrepreneurs I've met. By technology and its ability to disrupt and change any "established" market. By the speed of high tech market and the actual real time assessments, decision-making and measurement.

I felt it was time for me to tell those stories and to create my own.

I can't wait to say more about StoriesOut!

Stay tuned.