Lunch at the Circle

31st January 2007 Lunch at the Circle, Is “Software as a Service” (SaaS) disrupting the online business world?
You don’t need a big pc any longer? Death of the desktop? Final liberation from Microsoft’s license payments? Return of the dinosaurs (centralised computing)? Only pay for what you really need and use instead of paying hefty annual fees?.... There are many ways to look at Software as a Service, a reincarnation of the rumoured-defunct ASP model. Presented by Rob Steggles, Marketing Director for NTT Europe Online (previously Verio), http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/.
Rob works with many software companies to deliver software online 'as a service', including aggregators, innovators and software companies that are just plain scared of SaaS. (Rob was also recently instrumental in making NTT Europe the only really European partner to Microsoft for SaaS.) Rob explains how SaaS affects software companies and how it will change the industry. What IS this SaaS thing? Why does it matter? Should I do it? How is it different from ASP (well, there you have it!!)? What are the pitfalls and the advantages?

30th October 2006

Rodrigo starts his Abut in his blog with “I have over 10 years experience in the Internet space”. Well, in internet that is actually quite a long time…Rodrigo currently runs a new venture called vpod.tv that he co-founded and is CEO of. vpod.tv is a video publishing on demand service that just raised $5.1 million. Rodrigo has previously co-founded RISC Partners, a private small equity firm in Paris and was involved in the start up of Glowria.fr (online rental of DVD) as interim CEO.



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[Previous event]

Early 2006 we did an event with Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, founder and CEO of the French trading site PriceMinister.

(Photo: Adrian Johnson)

Unfortunately, we did not record that event, but our podcast producer Adrian recorded Pierre speaking at a Wharton Entrepreneurship Breakfast a little while previously.

Here's the podcast from that event.

But what we do have is a (very short) video podcast from the event done by Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz. Click on the picture to see the introduction to the event with Pierre.

Here's the CEO Europe text in English:

To help you to turn your opportunities into success stories, we send you with our New Year Greetings 2007 the interesting and stimulating e-book " 10 Ways To Find More Prospects " written by one of our certified top executives, David Ednie, who is internationally acknowledged as an expert in Sales Performance Motivation, International Sales and Sales Channels. David has over 20 years International business experience, working in culturally diverse markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Emerging Markets of Central and Eastern Europe. David is an Australian national and is based in Paris, France for many years.

Happened to see in the latest mailing from CEO Europe a name I recognized: David Ednie (thanks Jean-Paul for making sure I didn't miss it!).

David runs the consulting company SalesChannel Europe and has recently published an ebook on, yes, sales.

Here's what CEO Europe has to say:

Pour vous aider à transformer vos opportunités en succès, nous vous envoyons avec nos meilleurs vœux pour l’année 2007, un ebook intéressant et stimulant : « 10 méthodes pour trouver de nouveaux prospects ». Il est rédigé par l’un de nos cadres dirigeants certifiés, David Ednie, qui est reconnu internationalement comme un expert dans les domaines de la motivation des forces de ventes, le commerce international et les canaux de vente.

David a plus de 20 ans d’expérience, acquis sur des marchés aux cultures différentes en Europe, au Moyen Orient, en Afrique et dans les marchés émergents d’Europe Centrale et de l’Est. David est australien et vit à Paris, en France.

Pour télécharger gratuitement ce livre (en anglais uniquement) , click here

"Leverage Your Client’s Supply Chain. The idea here is to prospect amongst your client’s customers, suppliers, partners or competitors. In other words, look for sales opportunities in your client’s “business eco-system”. Let me give you 3 simple examples of how you can do this....."

Pour accéder à la short bio de David Ednie , cliquez ici

Pour lire nos derniers testimoniaux clients et candidats : cliquez ici

Nous vous souhaitons bonheur et réussite pour cette nouvelle année !

A new issue of the McKinsey Quarterly newsletter just arrived.

Featured articles:

EUROPE

Mapping the global capital markets, January 2007: Europe rising

A recent analysis of the world's financial markets shows how they are changing, with the eurozone countries wielding ever more influence.

Globalization of capital markets is an overwhelmingly positive trend, say executives, who also pinpoint some areas in need of improvement.

Previous event, April 2006

Erik Larsson, Vice President of Marketing at Netcentrex, talks about the concept of the "Long Tail" and gives us the short tale of how new technology will shift away from a focus on a small number of mainstream "hits" at the head of the demand curve (80/20) rule and towards a huge number of niches in the tail of the curve.

Download the podcast (37MB, 1h18).

"The Long Tail", first coined by Chris Anderson in Wired Magazine in October 2004:

Wikipedia entry

Original Wired article

Previous event, April 2005

Rebecca Scholl, director of marketing strategy at ACS Computing.

Download the podcast (71MB).

Previous event, September 2006

Alain Lefebvre, founder of 6nergies.net, similar, but different, to e.g. LinkedIn, Viaduc, etc.

Download the podcast (40MB, 1h24).

View the photo gallery

Alain Lefebvre's blog

Previous event, June 2005

Loic Le Meur of Six Apart and Jacques Froissant of Altaide, two blogging precursors, came and talked about, yes, blogging.



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