Countdown To Le Web: Two More Free Tickets

Salut - I’m a new college grad (21 years old) working as an IT consultant. My company sent me to France on my first assignment, so I’ve been living in the South of France (Lyon) since October 14th. I speak intermediate French (je parle en anglais et francais chaque jour que je travaille a Lyon), and I could really benefit from the chance to network with entrepreneurs and programmers located in France. I’ve been kicking around ideas for apps and I’d like to build a team here to get started. The conference is a bit out of my personal price range, and the currency conversion is killing me over here. I’m a compulsive TechCrunch reader, and I promise I’ll help cover the event for you if I’m given the chance to go. Without being chosen, there’s no chance I’ll be able to come up with the funds to get out there myself. You know where to reach me if I’m chosen.

I would like to lear how to steer the online activities of a newspaper a far away from PAPER as possible ad make a truely web 3.0, miscellaneous site.

Hello
I’m french so excuse my english…

Why I wish to have an invitation because I want to meet some 2.0 actors and to do some networking with people who are living in San Francisco.
I’m going to San Francisco in three months for my work and I stay 6 months.

So Loic if you read this comment…

Thank you for your attention

Because you should never attend a conference without du vin, du pain , du Boursin !

I want to get to know people who have succeeded and i can learn from. I have a small start-up i launched this year and we are working really hard to make it grow.

I am nearby Paris so i can be there really easy.

Also I would like to attend:
Personalization 2.0… 3.0 .. the projection of a personal image
Making things personal… investing
Evolving entrepreuership.

It would be an excellent opportunity to contact people, learn and share!

I also commented on the previous 2-free-tickets post. i REALLY want to go!

Because it would get me out of having to visit 10 potential new agency partners and a works christmas do. In fact I’d pay to get out of both of those!

I’m already planning on lobbyconning at LeWeb3, I’ve arranged my schedule to make sure I have those days free. Unfortunately, the ticket price is out of my budget for this year.

You never know what kinds of connections you will make at a conference like LeWeb, but I hear all kinds of great buzz about the previous ones. LeWeb3 is considered one of the “must” conferences to attend, and I’m completely blown away at the quality of the speakers and the workshops.

If I had a real ticket, I’d be promoting all the websites I’ve been supporting, guys with great ideas who aren’t yet ready for a public beta. They’re exactly the ideas that LeWeb3 wants to highlight. With a ticket, I’d be able to meet the people who can help take these sites from the obscurity of tiny shared offices in Parisien alleyways into the worldwide market.

Hello,

I’m a 20 year old french student at ESCP-EAP and i am fond of the web 2.0. Unfortunately, i do not have the opportunity to meet interesting people when it comes to the internet so it would be a dream for me to have a seat at Leweb3…

Sincerely,

Attending Le Web would give me thought-stimulating, perspective-changing insight into emerging technologies and the innovative new ideas that come about as the internet evolves.
But even better than that, it would be a sensational experience being in a venue FULL OF intelligent, passionate, like-minded people - A perfect networking event if I ever heard of one.

- Tim.

P.S. Thanks for offering us the chance to win tickets!

We´ve received an e-mail that our start up got under the best 50 from 150 applications.

We are a garage company. We have the ideas. We have the will & skills - but we don´t have the money.

The fee is keeping us away from showing our great platform to the world and we are frustrated about it - but there is no chance we will be able to pay for it.

Receiving one of both tickets would be a huge chance for us - which we truly deserve.

“it’s about people, ‘cos without people your nothing” - Joe Strummer

What I’ll get out of the event? Meeting more interesting people, and sharing views. Obviously I’d like to turn some into vampires, some into werewolves & poke others…

I thought we had written a lot of comments a couple of weeks ago for winning those 2 tickets. I never thought it could be just a fake marketing ad on techcrunch, but repeating this same post once again and begging people to write comments about what they are going to get out of LeWeb makes me doubt about the true intention behind it.

The question is not about what I will get out of the event if I win a ticket but rather if there are really 2 free tickets to give out ?!

Pay Per Post? This is one big infomercial.

Hi, I am currently working in Italy, I am natively from south africa.
Putting the two cultures (business and web) side by side has taught me more then I learned in my 5 years of university.
I believe making the right connections could help me kickstart some of my many ideas back home, which would hopefully spark some good and prosperity for my continent.

I am a complete geek who like web 2.0 related stuff and in future I want to become a Entrepreneur.

I want to attend to learn new tech, people.

Cheerz
Geekster

I have a very unique gift… I come up with revolutionary, world changing ideas in an uncontrollable volume. I mean the whole day they flow through me like a wild torrent of genius. It’s become so bad that my friends and family won’t talk to me or take my calls because they say they are bored of hearing about my latest pearl of web wisdom. Now I have no one to communicate with other than a Nike football that I have called Mark Z. When I’m not discussing the finer points of social communities with Mark Z, I spend my days in solitude writing specifications and drawing screenshots on my bedroom walls until my fingers bleed and my eyes burn. I need Le Web and two tickets; for me and the ball.

As a financial services consultant, I am investigating ways to modernize web presence, communication channels and new business models for financial institutions.
“Le web 3″ would be the perfect opportunity for me to get a whole bunch of new ideas and different thinking to start with.

I hope you will pick me, and if not, see you next year!

Thanks

Mory

Viva La France!

Hello world ,
I am a young Greek entrepreneur and want to go to leweb3 as to launch the public beta of wishdone.com in such a big event .I wish to be sponsored by Loiclemeur and “Techcrunch” since this will help me socialize .During Leweb3 i ll certainly make some very good contacts , make public my online venture , get to known with people that matter and by the way spent some lovely en Avenue Montaigne and Montmarte…
P.S.
My wish for this Christmas is to participate in Leweb3 …
What do you think Wish Done or not?

I am working on a new start up alongside some consulting work. I have invested £20,000 building the product with a team in Eastern Europe. The product will be in Beta by the end of January 2008. Le Web 3 is the perfect event for me to start building contacts for partnerships and potential future investors. The company I am consulting for will also benefit from me being there. The problem is I can’t justify the investment in a ticket over additional development work. If I was given a ticket, a eurostar ticket to Paris + a cheap hotel would not be a problem….I would also give Techcrunch an “exclusive” on our launch!

For our new startup project it would be nice to network and get to meet new people to get things rolling. We think there is a lot to learn at the le web conference and it would be great to get that opportunity!

“The event is down to its last few tickets, but the conference’s host and founder of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, has promised to give away 2 more free tickets to TC readers.”

If I get tickets to the event. I promise to use this sony high def video camera:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8.....561599208/

And make a video of our new search engine Peeplr which I have been blogging about for months now.

I would also let you know that I am not banned from Paris or France. Here is me there in 2005, though much fatter than I am today
flickr.com/photos/8606487@N03/2086641506/
Here is me today:
flickr.com/photos/8606487@N03/2086641508/in/photostream/

Since my employees are all forced to work 9-5 every day for customers, and do not work on any of our projects, they can not come. I will however video tape them if you give me a free ticket. I just want one.

I also have no interest in leWeb, I just want a business excuse to go to the musee du louvre, and deduct it from our crazy Canadian income tax. Otherwise the auditor will say it’s personal and fry my *ss. I can’t wait to go move BeerCo to California. Canadian tax b1tch3s.

So donne moi le billet, mon ami.

Oh, I’m also tres fluent in Quebecois French, so I won’t get lost or mugged easily.
If you don’t give me a ticket, at least send me a scan of one so I can use it for taxes and go anyway. Thanks!

I can not afford it right now as i am focusing on a new venture…that will help a lot.
i will also have a reason to travel to Paris and meet my family.

I am developing ideas that are unspeakably good, within the realm of social shopping and product design. I want to network and meet potential partners and investors but I have had bad experiences in the past.

You see, the problem with my projects is that they are so intensely powerful that when I tell people about them their heads explode. I mean, literally, clean off their bodies and then usually all over my suit.

I need Le Web - to be around entrepreneurial minds that can handle the explosive brilliance of my ideas. I was going to buy a ticket but then I ended up spending that money on dry cleaning.

Winning these tickets will be the only reason for me to leave my work place for a while -> to shave my beard and let the sun touch my skin;

Hi,

we are 2 french software engineers (25 year old) who are creating our first start-up. Our website, sitedi.com (free website builder), is in private beta since a week ago and is planned to be open early 2008.

We’d love to go to Paris to:
- discover fascinating projects
- learn from the experience of start-up entrepreneurs
- create partnerships with other companies
- meet business angels and talk about our project

Thanks a lot and feel free to contact us if you have any question.

Regards,
Fabien

NO! a vou, missuer’

French!
Gimme a break!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

HI TC-Team,

it would be a great chance attending such a great event. Why should you chose me? Besides my efforts in building up a new web project I have never ever won anything on the internet!

Cheers

Sebastian

Hey Guys,

I attended the third edition of leweb3 which had a little political bias.
I would very much appreciate to come back this year to enjoy the great agenda. My favorite topic so far: Storytelling and technology - evolution of society by June Cohen

Cheers,
Stefan

I heard about several people who returned funded from last Leweb3… I hope to find Le GrandPrix in Paris.

I want to thank the French press for their recent discovery of my startup. I am honored by their kind words and the recognition they have bestowed upon Sleep.FM - The Social Alarm Clock.

http://tinyurl.com/3xk392 ( pcinpact.com )

&

http://tinyurl.com/3yzeo9 ( atelier.fr )

It would awesome to meet with some of my French users and experience the European startup world!

Thank you!
Ryan

Disruptive technology needs disruptive business models, so it would be great to network and hopefully encourage more start-ups to share equity with their community members like we do at http://projectstars.com !

Hello,
I’m a student at a German business university and for many years now I’m very excited about the internet and the wide range of business opportunities it’s opening up these days. Having already developed a few business ideas with a good friend of mine, what would really help me is meeting people who have actual experience in these matters. Although I’m a native German, I speak fluent English and my French is decent as well. Attending an event like this would open up a whole new world for a student like me and I’m sure I would benefit from it in a great number of ways.

Unfortunately I’m currently on a loan to pay my tuition and all the other expenses, so affording the ticket myself is completely out of the question for me. Thus I’d be very happy to be considered for this.

Regards,
Max

Three reasons:
1. I can’t afford the ticket
2. Would present my business to Janus, Marc and Martin
3. Would love to dance with Geraldine, but only if Loic would allow

Best,
David

Three years ago I left a large Financial Firm to get involved with a startup, that focused on creating distruptive technologies that would revolutionize the Financial Services industry, after many lessons learned and mistakes made, we are gearing up to go at it again this time with a 2.0 twist and a simpler approach. A few of the things I want to get out of the event.

-The impact of the social aspects of the web on society and the way we conduct business
-Meet fellow entreupreneurs and get feedback
-Discuss other startups and oportunities
-Meet Investors that might be interested in funding our current or new venture.

Best,
Amine

I am 26 year old operating a start-up out of Sweden. I would like to attend the conference to network with gatekeepers of European online business to open doors and excel the growth of my company. Something i can’t finance on my own.
Best wishes // Karl

I want to see the Pulverizer moderate the Scobleizer.

I’ll get the oppotunity to know more about social Media, microBlogging and the indiustry…

Reasons why I want 2 attend Le Web 3

** get all hyped up and motivated to justify staying up till 3 in the morning working on my own project
** amuse folks with my vache-espagnole’ish French
** meet representatives of ENST Bretagne University during the recess and get interviewed to increase my chances to get enrolled in the training for my Master degree next year
** run around the center of Paris with a copy of Brown’s “Da Vinci code” asking people to help me find that Saint grail for Christ sakes

Hi TC,

I would love to go to Leweb3 in order to show our fellow foreigners working in the web industry that we have ideas in France, we have successes (like Metaboli :-)) and we are open to share and improve. So I would be lucky to take action in this great web “mezze” (http://tinyurl.com/35vpz3)

Jeremie

Loic’s LeWeb3 will herald the beginning of the New Web 2008 break out year. The Web’s key players are either speaking or will be in attendance. An opportunity to mingle and share with this crowed at this time is in Web History is invaluable. Who knew that the New Web’s beginning would be in Paris 2007? Changing the world requires planning and luck. I have the plans, and LeWeb3 might just bring me the luck… Plus I’d really like to talk SemWeb tech with Johann..

I’m just about to preview a semantic search tool as an experiment which was hacked up after some ideas sprang up when using Seesmic. So this kind of experience would be invaluable for me to determine the direction of social collaboration and the semantic web.

Hi, I’m alex, a french student in Master IT in a apprenticeship(LineData services ‘ Ekip). I”m also working on new technologies like Android with some school collegues. One of them (timothee Mervillon) found a way de get one ticket. Attending to this meeting with him is a nice opportunity to learn tons of informations.
Hope to be selected,
Cheers,
Alex

Because I’m only an Italian student of computer ccience engineering who can’t afford the ticket but who wish he were there to know the most important businessmen and developers at the moment to explain my crazy ideas about some very interesting project in hopes to find someone with an insane mind like mine who could be interested in them.

But I know that all these things today are really difficult to realize…

We are selected to be in the start-up contest and we are currently working hard preparing our presentation. We have really realy great hopes for this event and think it will make a significant turn in the life of our company.
We are 3 people but we are small and so we’ve only been able to buy 2 tickets for the event. And unfortunatelly, hazard made that I’m the one who is not able to attend the event and that’s really really frustrating !!
A third ticket for free would be the best thing that could happen to us !!
+ we are french, that worth every speech of the world

I’m a french-indian documentary film maker living since 2003 in Paris and will be leaving few weeks after Leweb3 for a 2 month trip around NYC then to San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

My project is to deliver a documentary dealing with relationship and differences between the american and the european IT markets, focusing on start-up and venture ecosystems, the documentary will be mainly about interviews of key actors from both.

I would use a ticket to Leweb3 to link with interesting people and make useful contacts I could use further once in the US. Obviously, I could also start to shoot during the event.

Getting one of this tickets would be a *huge* plus for my project.

Regards,

S

stephane_simon@live.fr

Hi Loic,
I am French and live in Paris, I am not an IT guy and I barely know how to develop a website but what I know is from the user point of view.
I consider myself as an USER not a guy who sees what’s behind the site like “ooh it’s in AJAX and XML how cool is that!” but what I can bring to the Web3.0 is whether I see myself and other regular users use that service everyday and maybe suggest feature.
In my opinion Web2.0 is all about the user experience
In addition I work in finance and my job is to come up with realistic business plan and for you guys it seems to be quite difficult to plan what benefit you are going to make.

To conclude just pick a regular USER, me
thx
Cheers

Hi,

I’m a simple secondary school student, but I was always fascinated by what the Internet could bring in our everyday life. Not only a mass media, but also a true mean to link the men. And precisely, to have the chance to be able to attend the Web 3 would be, I think, a wonderful opportunity to know better this world, and to “link ” me to this one. Besides, I have nowadays a project which I develop in parallel my studies, and it would be a good opportunity to speak about it.

Regards,
Rémi

Hi TechCrunch and Loïc,

As my comic strip on entrepreneurship for pupils is made, I can go forward and think in my web business. Being present at LeWeb3 would be great, and would be the occasion for giving you one of the comic strips and thanks you for the seesmic invite, that’s a really fun interface and many new usages to be discovered till February and the next months.

Good luck for all your projects and keep going, that’s really a nice story!

Guilhem.

bunch of suck-ups, my god… good material for a play

I would like to prove to my girlfriend that Paris is more then a romantic hotspot and us geeks can be fun too

My Spanish wife and I run a small blogging and podcasting business in Madrid. We would love to go to the Leweb, meet some of the names that have inspired us, and bring back some of that techy goodness to Spain, where things still need shaking up a little!

Ben

Startup founder in Sweden… need to network

I am 25years old french entrepreneur with the appropriate background (diplomas and current job in IT systems) and collaborators to startup a web2.0 company and inspire trust to investors.

I have just set up a small team to work on social finance website concept.
We are in the early phase of the project but the idea is well structured and we are on the way to realise it.

Leweb3 would be a great opportunity for us to network with the appropriate persons, share our idea, discuss it, challenge it and get more people involed in our project.
Today, we can’t spend that much money to get registered since we need to invest it in our core application.

Loïc, this free invitation would really be “du pain béni” for us.
But anyway, we are going on…

Why me, would you ask?

Well, according to Loic, when launching a startup, one needs to -1- focus on a “simple exciting empty space“. Other current/up and coming/former “exciting empty spaces” will be demonstrated at Le Web 3… talk about getting inspired!

Loic also adds we -2- need to “share our idea as much as possible”. I guess 1300 (and counting) participants could be a reasonably sized crowd to start sharing my idea…

If previous years’ rave reviews are proof, there’s no doubt Le Web 3 is the ultimate place where to -3- “build a community” and -4- “build my product with their feedback”.

You don’t know it (yet), but the time has come for me to -5- “gather a great team”: isn’t Le Web 3 supposed to be the best place on earth when looking for great team players?

What else?
I’m afraid points -6- to -10- are not relevant at this time

Oh yes, thanks for having taken the time to read this far…

Because I had the lucky shot/foresight/cheek/genius to register the domain; http://www.digitalagency.com in 1997. But have spent the last 10 years trying to figure out how to make the best of it. A few days hanging out with 1200 of the smartest Wb 2.0 guys on the planet might just do the trick. Here’s hoping: Mike in Scotland.

take the ideas and spirit of social networks and internet technology to people in countries who didn’t have the benefits that i was given living a western society. i am turning my career full circle to develop a social experience and build technology relationships to provide a freedom of communication and speech for individuals in third world countries who have limited access to internet services. an opportunity like this will not come again with all the same people in one place all with a common goal and vision for the web

Wish I could go - too busy, I hope more comes out of this one in comparison with the TechCrunch 40 (There needed to be cooler companies involved in the mix although gettingi nsights from the VCs was very applicable).

I am thinking Ideas from past few years.. just to see them shaping into reality by someone somewhere sometime. I strike an idea almost every time I am about to hit the bed. And I think its the TIME !

Hello Again!

I thought I might try this again as I’m very keen to go and feel this will be extremely valuable personally but also to my team who are working on UGAME with me. We all have great experience and passion for video gaming but have a lot to learn regarding the investment and start up world.

Firstly about myself: I’m a professional gamer turned entrepreneur, by founding the worlds current number 1 professional gaming team (www.fnatic.com). I started it in 04 while doing a degree at Southampton University in the UK and it has been running successfully for 3 years albeit only breaking even (but i was never in it for the money.. it was and has been a pleasure to travel the world doing what I love!).

Having been involved in the upper end of the gaming market for a long time and having reached it through the grass roots (being a gamer), I’ve noticed many opportunities for business within gaming. To that end I have been working on building a community website heavily targeted to Online Gamers for the past year and secured seed capital (from family and friends) in May which lead to the begining of development. The website http://www.ugame.net will go live in January and we are searching for some experienced people to both provide advice but also get reach out to Angel investors so that we can scale the launch. For example: We have been working from the top floor of an internet cafe in Southampton for the past year and have been running on very little costs so we can develop as cool a website as possible that all of us will want to use!

Being only 23, I know a lot about my field (gaming) but have taught myself everything i know about business and I am trying to learn a lot more! My biggest weakness has been in the investment/start up world, as i have had little help from any “Mentors” and have no contacts with Angels or people with money! Thats why I feel I would not only bring something fresh (and Australian) to the table at Le Web but also learn a great deal.

All this will be in order to make destroying people with your thumbs a whole lot more enjoyable!!

We are based in Southampton, UK so getting to the event wont be a problem!

Hope to see you there,

SAM!

We’re a start-up in Beta - Phuser - a collaboration website which integrates with other Web 2.0 services (Slideshare and del.icio.us so far) and SMS. We want to do a Seesmic integration too.

We need publicity and investors. Perfect for LeWeb3.

I’m an American entrepreneur (already) in Paris. I’ve dedicated all of my vin, fromage et pain money (okay, only some on the bread - vive la croissant amande!) towards development for my startup which will be one of the major players in search 3.0.

In addition, it will make the introduction that much better when I join as a speaker in 2-3 years.

Cause I want to see how the web can overthrow Sarkozy.

The power should be with the people, new media should replace old media, but why hasn’t it happened yet?

I think the people want choices on the Internet and good ideas should filter to the top, currently people don’t have the choice to watch the truth in HD quality on the Internet and currently good ideas are not being highlighted.

I come from Copenhagen with a low cost flight and video-blog the event in HD quality at my HD video-blog if I am invited.

Why?

Because I’m a student studying near Paris. I really want to come but you don’t offer a student rate. 1200 euros is pretty hefty for my non-salaried budget. I offered to volunteer in exchange for admission but no one replied to my email.

Please let an INSEAD MBA, Stanford B.S. in CS come! Maybe I will be inspired by ideas I hear and can start the next big internet company.

Loic! Pick me, pick me. I want to party with all these great guys

Ah yes, and I have also a startup: sixgroups.com (Instant communities)
Maybe I can share some Ideas.

Cheers!
/bahne

Hi,
I’m a student at HEC Paris. I’m not a developer or a web expert, I’m a student really interested in entrepreneurship and in Web 2.0 who just can’t afford the ticket. I would love to meet some of the most ambitious and innovative entrepreneurs from all over the world. Le Web 3 will offer a brilliant analysis of the evolution of the internet for next years, that would be a great opportunity to be aware of trends to come, to exchange ideas, to learn from fascinating projects, to meet people…

That would just be crazy.

Nathanaël

I’d love to attend LeWeb3, too, because I’m a big fan of Loic’s daily video podcast about Seesmic and would love to meet him and all the other international people at the event. Unfortunately the ticket pricings do not fit to our budget after many other expensive events in germany this year. But next year we’ll going international with our startup http://www.ecato.com, too, so getting more connected with all the other international founders would be great!

ze web 3.0 will teach me to be humble… Amen!

what about inviting me ? i’m a…
W–oman…
E–xploring…
B–usiness in NYC+Paris in…
3–steps (film-Web-mobile).
I’ll listen/admire/challenge/interact/network with strengh & humor. You don’t need the best idea but you need the best and fastest execution (inspired from Loic LM)! and…oooh… I’ll dance!

The knowledge shared at an event like this, will be all over the web 10 sec after the speaker has left the stage, so why bother spending two days in Paris?

This is why!

Doc Searls

Kevin Rose, Chris Alden, Evan Williams, Philippe Stark

Nelson Mattos, Clay Shirky, Janus Friis, Jason Calacanis

Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington

Check out this lineup, and tell me you wouldn’t kill to get tickets to this game, I know I would.

I will personally persuade Scoble to take his shirt of, after his panel discussion!

This would be bigger than the soccer world cup!

mmm… I’ll probably get out of Le Web 3… let me see… a trip to France, a real trip, not just some online meeting on Second Life, well, that would be Web 2.0… We’re going to France to discuss Web 3.0, anyway… let’s do the real deal!

We have a great product which is in need of further coverage http://fav.or.it is a new way to read the blogosphere and lets non-techies read all the great content on the internet.

If I went to the show I would blog (http://blog.assembleron.com) and promote the idea that not everyone understands RSS and everyone needs to realise this.

I’m one of the founders of Radon, a Swedish web video production company. We worked at the SIME Conference where we produced this kick ass video. Check it out!

We (a-bunch-of-23-year-old-economy-students) started this business 1,5 years ago and have already some big customers like Google, KPMG and Ericsson. Now we want to meet people outside the Scandinavian sphere, both for business and inspiration. I think we would be a fresch flair of young minds and quality content contribuors for your event.

Help us out with tickets and we’ll might (promise to) give you your own unofficial Le Web 3 - movie

Dear SantaCrunch
This Christmas I would love to go to Paris, the city of LeWeb.
I have been a good champ all year round Reading your Feeds and spreading the Crunch to all my non geeky friends (at least trying).
Please, pretty please SantaCrunch make this one a good one.

A few weeks ago I almost booked a ticket for the conference, because it seems like a great event. But sorry, I can’t convince myself to pay 1000 EURO for a two day conference and finance Kevin Rose’ Xmas shopping in Paris

But if I get a free ticket, I would be happy to donate 2000 EURO to a non-profit of your choice (preferrably http://www.rsf.org/ , but you decide).

Oh, and our software can help everyone at the conference to save tons of time with their web surfing. Try our free Firefox addon - http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox

Very Simple - i’ll will get from this conference 4-6M$ because i’m sure this is where I will finally find a good funding option to my new startup.

http://www.Tweegee.com

want to more.. ? I just need a ticket..

I think I’d get a huge amount of knowledge, social connections and above all I’d increase my hunger for learning, creating and innovating more and more each day.

Love the contest angle to promote here (Palo Alto) and abroad

My home schooling is nearing its end. I passed with straight A’s. Now I need grad school and upper-level networking. I’m handy for restaurant and hotel recommendations in Paris! Merci.

Loic: The reason why I did not register this year is because we are shipping this week. We just shipped OpenLandmark for iPhone. Another product Fon11 for iPhone will be done too this week. Now, I think I can make it, but I need a ticket. Paris is special as we are planning to start our Europe presence soon.

I am a Software Developer recently shifted my base to Paris. I have been following the Web 2.0 “phenomenon” for more than 2 years now. I am surprised to see that there are not many start-ups coming up from Europe. Ya ya I know what Paul uncle said (”Why Startups Condense in America”) but still I feel that its a great place to have all the garages to build the next Flickrs and YouTubes.

I would like to take the lead and show that even Europe and France for that matter are capable of producing the next Kevins and Marks. And the first step for this is to have a network of great people and I can’t think of a better place to meet so many great people.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Why should you pick us? Because it’s Hanukah week, the festival of lights, and we are an Israeli company that would love to light up LeWeb with our cool new Web 2.0 application.

What do we do? We allow anyone to create, publish and sell articles, essays, blog posts and eBooks online. We are ready to take the Kindle world by storm with the first end to end solution for both the creation and distribution of eBooks.

We are launching our new site in just a few weeks time and we’d love to be at LeWeb to get feedback, to learn about the latest developments in Web 2.0, to network and meet great folks like Doc and Kevin and Philippe and Jason and Robert and Michael.

I can’t be as clever as some of the other commenters above. I can only say that this is a unique opportunity coming at a critical time in our startup. We have been working for 2 years on our software and we’re ready to go, right now!

Like everyone else, we really can’t afford the ticket. We aren’t in Europe but we are close enough - we’re from Jerusalem Israel - a 4.5 hour plane ride from Paris.

We’d be greatly encouraged if we could attend LeWeb.

Thanks!
Brian

Hey Nick,
great post… interesting Info…
Now a days organisations are attracting people with peppy discounts….
There are many persons who can’t really afford to buy tickets…anyways we are eagerly looking forward for the conference… Okay…so I’m a big fan of variety shows. There’s something about the “over-the-top”ness that I enjoy. But last year, when my friend took me to a new variety show called Holiday Wonders, I didn’t know if I’d like it.
What the show actually was kinda blew my mind. It was like the writers/directors/performers had squeezed the best essence out of Chinese traditional culture, added a dash of zesty Western accent, and come up with a whole new dish. I saw my own cultural history (as a Westerner) from a new perspective and my eyes were really opened to the depth of artistry that China’s five thousand-year-old culture has produced.

My comment still awaiting moderation? Here is it again but without any links:

A few weeks ago I almost booked a ticket for the conference, because it seems like a great event. But sorry, I can’t convince myself to pay 1000 EURO for a two day conference and finance Kevin Rose’ Xmas shopping in Paris

But if I get a free ticket, I would be happy to donate 2000 EURO to a non-profit of your choice (preferrably RSF (.org) , but you decide).

Oh, and our software can help everyone at the conference to save tons of time with their web surfing.

Le Web would be really helpful for me. My company has two ideas in development for launch summer 2008 and it would be incredibly useful to meet investors and potential partners at this stage. The ideas we are developing have so far created quite a buzz with those we have shared them with and are “big” in scope. My company is based in the UK and Bulgaria, so is truly European (as of this year at least!).

I think that with the ideas that I would be bringing and the people that I would get to meet at Le Web, I am confident that this would be a hugely successful couple of days for me, a real milestone in my company’s development.

Thanks, Lacho

Everytime I watch a TED video and listen to these simple speakers talking about great achivements, I have this beyond description feeling of “everything is possible, anybody can make a change to this world: trust your ideas and try your chance!!!”. That’s what I decided to do working full time on a web (ad)venture…
I’m sure I’d get this same feeling from attending LeWeb3 with a tiny difference : talks would not only be one way!