Serial Entrepreneur & blogger
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Board Member at Boursorama
- Occasional speaker at Conferences, Business Schools & Associations
- Past
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- Founder & CEO at B2L
- Founder at RapidSite France
- Education
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- HEC
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Loïc Le Meur’s Summary
Serial entrepreneur.
More info on my weblog: http://www.loiclemeur.com
35, married, three children
Graduated from HEC School of Management (Paris) in 1996
World Economic Forum GLT then "Young Global Leader" since 2002.
I am not really a business angel anymore, focused on Seesmic.
Jury President in 99 of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
Passions: Kite Boarding, Sailing, Golf
Loïc Le Meur’s Specialties:
Creation, innovation, entrepreneurship, internet, weblogs, leadership, passion.
Loïc Le Meur’s Experience
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Founder & CEO
Seesmic
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Enabling video conversations
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Board Member
Meetic
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Meetic is the #1 dating site in Europe and #2 worldwide, created and managed by Marc Simoncini, present in more than 20 Countries. I help define strategy and new products ideas and other board issues.
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Founder
LeWeb conference
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)
LeWeb is one of the largest Internet event in Europe, every year in December in Paris (11/12 Dec in 2007) with about 40 Countries present, hundreds of startups, entrepreneurs and influencers. Speakers included French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Israel President Shimon Peres.
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Board Member
Boursorama
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NBRS; Internet industry)
June 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)
Boursorama.com is the #1 French and one of the top European Internet trading platform and financial portal with a 40% market share. It went public in 2000.
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Occasional speaker
Conferences, Business Schools & Associations
(Internet industry)
June 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)
Blogs, Social Software, Internet & Entrepreneurship are subjects I enjoy speaking about in Conferences
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Executive VP & General Manager Europe
Six Apart
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
July 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 7 months)
Six Apart is the provider of the leading weblogs authoring tools Typepad and Movable Type. http://www.sixapart.com
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Founder & CEO
Ublog
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2003 — July 2004 (11 months)
Ublog is one of the first weblogs solution and host in Europe. Ublog was acquired by Six Apart in 2004.
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Founder & CEO
Tekora
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Tekora introduced affordable packaged website solutions for small companies. Tekora developed its own technology, raised 6M € from 4 major VCs and was acquired by Access-Commerce SA, a public European sofware editor.
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Founder & CEO
B2L
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 8 months)
B2L was one of the first web agencies in France. I created it with a students loan of 10k € on the HEC campus in Paris. With clients such as Chanel, Peugeot, 20th Century Fox, Mars etc, it quickly became one of the leading web agencies. I sold it to the ad network BBDO at the end of 1999.
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Founder
RapidSite France
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 4 months)
RapidSite was the first to introduce in France shared web hosting and quickly achieved a leadership position with 20 to 50€ monthly packages and a large dealership network. I sold it to France Telecom and it became part of its ISP, Wanadoo.
Loïc Le Meur’s Education
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HEC
September 1992 — June 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- "Maitre de Conférences" at HEC Entrepreneurs
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Loïc Le Meur’s Interests:
the Web, blogging, investing, running, kite-surfing, sailing.
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LeWeb'09
Loïc Le Meur’s Honors:
Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum
Loïc Le Meur’s Contact Settings
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