Robert Steggles
From the Lunch at the Circle event on January 31. Is “Software as a Service” (SaaS) disrupting the online business world? A meeting with Rob Steggles, director of marketing, NTT Europe Online.
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Watch the 7 minute video interview:
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The next L@C lunch event will be:
— Friday March 9
— “Is French business and French society in terminal decline?” with Peter Gumbel, Time Magazine.
Peter is Time Magazine’s senior writer in France. You have no doubt read some of his articles. He has a long career in journalism (Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Time) with a stint in the dotcom venture Business.com in the early 2000s as an extra spice. His talk will be based on his recently published book French Vertigo.
The best way to introduce Peter is perhaps to quote himself: “I reckon it’s time to say enough is enough. […] France isn’t in great shape economically, but it’s clear to me that the situation isn’t nearly as terrible as French doomsayers would have the country believe. […] I’ve been a journalist and foreign correspondent for more than 20 years. Since 2002, I’ve been based in Paris as a senior writer for TIME Magazine, mainly covering the European economy and business scene. […] I spent 16 years at (the Wall Street Journal), working in New York, Moscow, Paris, Berlin and Los Angeles. […] The high point of my career to date was my 1988-1992 assignment in Russia. I covered the rise and fall of President Gorbachev, culminating in the 1991 coup against him and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. I’ve won a number of journalism awards, including two from the Overseas Press Club of America for my Moscow reporting. In January 2006, the London-based Work Foundation named me Journalist of the Year. I took a year out from print journalism in 2000 to help found an Internet startup, Business.com. It was supposed to be a business information site modeled on Yahoo! but it didn’t become the big success we’d hoped for.” From Peter’s website on his new book. (And I can perhaps add that BKWine was one interviewed by Peter and appears in the book)
The book’s web site: http://www.frenchvertigo.fr
Peter’s blog: http://blog.petergumbel.fr/
– Friday March 9
– We limit participation to ~20 seats.
– Inscription: By email only and I will confirm.
– Pre-registration required
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?
Watch the vidcast interview before the lunch (7 mins):
Download the podcast of the lunch (57 mins, 27MB)
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]
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
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.
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:
Previous event, April 2005
Rebecca Scholl, director of marketing strategy at ACS Computing.
Download the podcast (71MB).
Alain Lefebvre
Previous event, September 2006
Alain Lefebvre, founder of 6nergies.net, similar, but different, to e.g. LinkedIn, Viaduc, etc.
Download the podcast (40MB, 1h24).
Previous event, June 2005
Loic Le Meur of Six Apart and Jacques Froissant of Altaide, two blogging precursors, came and talked about, yes, blogging.
