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