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La start-up Zap Travel revisite l’expérience du voyage en ligne. Basée en plein coeur de Paris, la start-up Zap Travel se présente comme un nouvel acteur du monde très concurrentiel du voyage en ligne. Au lieu de répondre aux questions « où » et « quand », la plateforme propose aux internautes d’indiquer ce qu’ils ont véritablement envie de faire. A partir de la formulation de cette expression, Zap Travel présente une série de recommandations et d’opportunités de séjours en s’appuyant sur les offres des différents voyagistes. La start-up compte se démarquer grâce à son offre alliant : inspiration et meilleurs prix. Aujourd’hui, Zap travel compte 5 collaborateurs et appuie son activité sur le modèle de l’affiliation.

La jeune pousse travaille actuellement sur une levée de fonds pour faire évoluer son produit et mettre l’accent sur l’acquisition client, en privilégiant notamment une approche de hacking. Interview d’Olivier Desmoulin, designer et head of product de Zap Travel : Lire la suite de cet article: Startup Pack - 12 deals worth $10,000+ for FREE! The Lean Startup Bundle. Startup 101: Introducing Our Serialized "How to Build a Sta. "Startup 101" is a serialized book about the thrills and spills of starting a Web technology venture.

Startup 101: Introducing Our Serialized "How to Build a Sta

It will be a regular feature in our new channel ReadWriteStart, dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. Startup 101 is for first-time entrepreneurs who want to go through the whole startup life cycle - including raising money, building a valuable business, and making a lot of money by selling the venture or taking it public. The founding entrepreneur is the hero and primary reader of this how-to guide. Most of what we say will be well known to investors and advisers who support entrepreneurs, but we hope they also find some value here. We really hope this will be helpful to the early employees who believe in the dream and do the actual hard work of making it real. This series is designed for Web technology startups. We do assume that you want to build a large and valuable business in a relatively short amount of time. This won't be a dry, academic tome. Finally, the name. PricewaterhouseCoopers: Global: Insights & Solutions: MoneyT.

15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity - Six Revisions. As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions.

15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity - Six Revisions

Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective. To help you in your analysis, here are 15 top-notch, free, and simple web tools to help you learn more about a particular website. 1. Yahoo! Site Explorer Site explorer allows you to inspect certain aspects of a URL. How To Demo Your Startup. Jason Calacanis’ most recent post to his email mailing list is particularly relevant to our audience.

How To Demo Your Startup

He’s spoken with 200 companies in ten minute increments as they give their pitch to be a part of the upcoming TechCrunch50 conference. I agree with all of his thoughts below based on my own experience getting pitched from thousands of startups over the last three years. If you are pitching a company to the press, a conference, a potential employee or an investor, bookmark this. You’ll be glad you did. The best chance for success of course is to have a killer product to show. The full text of Jason’s email is below. For the past 10 days I’ve sat through 200 company demos for the TechCrunch50 conference. After doing 2,500 minutes of demos (40 hours) this year and many more last year for the conference, I’ve learned a lot about what makes for a great demo and what makes for a horrible demo. 1. The longer it takes for you to show your product, the worse your product is.