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Each year in Paris, LeWeb brings together in Paris 3,500 entrepreneurs, brands, geeks, investors and press from 76 countries. Loïc also created the #1 European tech event LeWeb with his wife Geraldine. Loïc is the founder of Seesmic a popular app that helps enterprise and individuals manage their internal and external social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Loic le meur serial#
I hired only one engineer as co-founder, and I’m funding it myself for now.Loïc Le Meur is a serial entrepreneur based in San Francisco. I decided to particularly ignore the need for doing something big “because I had to”. Uber was a luxury limo service that wasn’t going a priori to revolutionize transportation.īack to the question, how did I finally decide to launch something? I decided to ignore everybody about the idea itself. He was just creating profiles of his Harvard fellow students so they better connected. I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg had any idea Facebook would have so much potential. The investors he talked to did not think it could be big either. Problem is Brian Chesky had no idea he was creating something huge with AirBNB. You can’t do this it’s too small for you. Especially if you have started several startups already. It needs to have the potential to change the World, something we should Reconsider. Then there is the pressure of building something that can be huge. I still did just that and killed those 20 ideas in 12 months and did not start anything. I’m aware to start something you should not listen too much to those who tell you you’re going to fail. There is always many friends to tell you how bad your idea is and it’s so easy to stop right there. Talking to friends about it can be good and bad. Instead of raising some funding and running with it, I let the idea settle in my mind for a few weeks. I even talked to investors about some of them and they were ready to fund them. I get excited by an idea, I share it with a few friends, sometimes even start talking to people who could join me. Many friends shared their ideas with me too. I had 20 different real startup ideas in the last 12 months. It does not matter where it goes, it’s all about starting.įinding the idea is the next challenge. I just love building something new, it’s so exciting. In the decision to start, there was a lot of “f**k it I need to start something new”, which has been growing on me for a while. He works from there when conditions are good and alternates flying and working on his laptop. A friend of mine even bought a small solar panels equiped RV that he parks at the paragliding spot. The good news is I can go paraglide 20 minutes away from my place, fly for an hour and come back. I certainly understand the waste of not using my experience to start something new. Richard answered “If we don’t start new things all the time, it’s a waste. “Why do you keep starting new things, you don’t need to”. I asked a similar question to Richard Branson this year. The feeling of doing something new no-one else is doing yet. It’s the adventure and the learnings that matter. I don’t care if it’s going to fail or not. I enjoy the process of finding an idea and creating something from scratch. Working for Facebook on projects that can reach such a large amount of people must be exciting. David Marcus went from startup entrepreneur to impacting billions of people with Messenger.
Loic le meur full#
I could also become a full time VC or even join a large company. Oh and some paragliding and kite-surfing when I don’t meet great entrepreneurs. I have invested as an angel in about 50 startups.