Honestly, the only winning strategy for me is to put user experience ahead of making profits but this is not a universal recipe for success. Everyone should follow their own style, Steve Jobs would never have founded Amazon and vice versa. The best strategy for an entrepreneur is to stay…
Take everything step by step. Having received his MBA at Ponts-et –Chaussés and trained as a general engineer and patent expert, Jacques Lépine specialized early on in innovation. Over the course of his career, he has had several diverse experiences in the fields of design intellectual property. He has a…
[quote style=”boxed”]I take off several months per year to make art. That time off (I call these months “divergent”) makes the remainder of the year (I call these months “convergent”) outrageously productive, not to mention inspired and informed.[/quote] Samuel Stubblefield is an artist known for installations and inventions that connect…
[quote style=”boxed”]From what I learned until now. The best answer to this question is to build the right team.[/quote] Ismail Salhi is the founder of Ozenge Studio a digital Carpentry that aims at fixing the relationship problems people have with theiir computers. His seminal work was in the field of…
[quote style=”boxed”]I would do less. I think we started out with too many features on LiveMinutes. During our first year, we actually removed more features than we added. I would start with less.[/quote] Alex Dufetel is passionate about startups, tech, and more; specifically product & UI design. He co-founded LiveMinutes,…
[quote style=”boxed”]Try to remember why you are doing the work you are doing. Ask yourself every day: is this what I want? Life is short and unpredictable.[/quote] Bruno Pieters is a Belgian fashion designer and art director highly regarded for his avant-garde creations and sharp tailoring. In 2012, after a…
Who are you and what do you do? I’m French, I’m building great digital UX, managing projects and doing marketing and business development stuff. I’ve created The M Agency, a digital consulting company and LeFoodClub, a marketplace for local food. How do you bring ideas to life? Sketching, erasing, re-sketching,…
[quote style=”boxed”]I would recommend talking as often as possible with other entrepreneurs to share impressions, tips, fears and ideas. It has helped challenge my ideas, find solutions to my problems and move on. When I am in doubt, it is great to learn what others did to get beyond their…
[quote style=”boxed”]My ideas come from travels, meetings with different people and exchanging ideas with them.[/quote] After his business school studies in Roubaix, France, Raphael Bouchez moved to San Francisco with a Master’s degree in marketing and management. He started to work like a developer of distribution networks for leather craft…
[quote style=”boxed”]My favourite gadgets are definitely a pen and a sheet of paper. It helps me to put down my most volatile ideas. I always need them to describe what I feel when I smell a particular Fragrance for instance.[/quote] Gérald Ghislain, a French fragrance creator and at the same…