Serial Entrepreneur & blogger
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder & CEO at Seesmic
- Board Member at Meetic (#2 dating site WW)
- Non executive Chairman at Six Apart EMEA
- CEO at LeWeb3 Conference
- Board Member at Boursorama
- Occasional speaker at Conferences, Business Schools & Associations
- Past
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- Executive VP & General Manager Europe at Six Apart
- Founder & CEO at Ublog
- Founder & CEO at Tekora
- Founder & CEO at B2L
- Founder at RapidSite France
- Education
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- HEC
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Loïc Le Meur’s Summary
European entrepreneur, created 4 startups about to create a 5th one.
More info on my weblog: http://www.loiclemeur.com
35, married, three children
Graduated from HEC School of Management (Paris) in 1996
Member of the GLT community of the World Economic Forum since 2002.
Jury President in 99 of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival Cyber Lions Jury, a great experience with about 15 nationalities in the Jury and the review of about 1000 great creative websites
Business angel, sometimes, when I feel the passion from company creators who launched and developed great services.
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 (9 months)
Enabling video conversations
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Board Member
Meetic (#2 dating site WW)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 2 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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Non executive Chairman
Six Apart EMEA
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
As a continuation for my role as EVP Europe, I continue to help Six Apart as non executive Chairman of EMEA.
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CEO
LeWeb3 Conference
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)
LeWeb3 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 (8 years)
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 (12 years)
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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LeWeb3-07 member
Loïc Le Meur’s Honors:
Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum
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