Off to Paris (LeWeb09)

On Tuesday I'll be heading off to Paris for a couple of days to attend LeWeb09 (more on that below), receive my diploma from ESCP Europe and spend some time with old friends. Very much looking forward to these days.

It'll be my first time at LeWeb. Luckily I'm still a student and wouldn't have Loic and Géraldine generously offered some student tickets, it would have been impossible to go (with a price tag of €1.500, the conference doesn't come in cheap). Thanks a lot for this possibility!

In a blogpost over on the Tagcrumbs blog I made a list of things I'm looking forward to most: two of the sessions at LeWeb (mobile app roundtable and a talk on business models for mobile applications) are especially promising and of course I'll be showcasing and testing the Tagcrumbs iPhone application.

I'm also looking forward to exchanging thoughts, ideas and stories with fellow web and mobile entrepreneurs from all over the world. Meeting people from so many different countries - who all try hard to get their start-ups off the ground or have done so successfully in the past - always opens up great opportunities to better understand where we're heading and what will be next.
Most of all I'd like to learn about the approaches start-ups from other European countries take to  successfully establish themselves in the melting pot of languages and cultures that is Europe. And next to celebrating current successes and being inspired by innovative new start-ups this wish is deeply rooted in LeWeb's DNA: connecting European entrepreneurs between themselves and with the rest of the world.
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