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If you had 20,000 to start a new business idea

So let’s suppose you won 20,000 dollars, Euro, pounds, francs whatever you prefer. What would you do with it?

Do you have a hot business idea you think no one else is doing? What sector would that new business be in.

Just tell us the basic idea, we know you are probably scared someone will steal your idea, so don’ give us all the details just the idea. I’m just curious to see how many peoples’ dreams are on ice because of lack of seed capital.

Is it a grand idea like yattoo free TV on your computer, or laptop, a new gadget or simply to set up a home office and work freelance from home?

Write in and tell us we’d like to share your vision.

Wisequeen

Tech Startups,Yahoo and Google, Swiss become new Silicon valley

Moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity. This is what start ups must do. Last month I had the pleasure of interviewing some of the hot new Tech startups at a meet up in Zurich at Techcrunch.
There were 40 startups there and some really stood out.

Wua.la social network storage solutions, Yattoo free TV on your laptop, W2ML a simple writing platform, Yes.com music sharing and voting for your site, and an opportunity to win 100,000 dollars by downloading itunes.
So many brilliant tech ideas from inside Zurich and Switzerland in partnership with American, French and German, companies from the sharpest minds in the business.
I’ll be featuring some of their interviews here over the following weeks. So subscribe to Wise queen on the RSS feed

Here’s my interview with Marc Mongenet of W2ML at TechCrunch Zurich

Where is your home town?

Geneva, Switzerland.

Where are you living now?

Bière, a village between Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland.

What were you doing before W2ML?

I was working as senior software engineer at ELCA Informatique SA
in Lausanne, developing document management software.

What did you study after school?

Computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

What did you want to be when you grew up?

Farmer, but only to drive tractors.

Tell me how W2ML came about

Since the invention of the Web in the early nineties, thousands of
different, incompatible, Web Content Management Systems (WebCMS)
have been created to let people write in web sites: guestbooks,
forums, wikis, entreprise CMS… Some of them are really complex,
but there is no standard solution.

So I thought: is it possible to create a simple and generic solution for
common content management tasks? Is it possible to be as simple,
and generic as HTML is for web pages? (HTML is the language
invented in the early nineties, and still used, to create web pages).

Explain W2ML to me.

W2ML is a computer language to create read/write web pages.
It is an open format: the specification is public and everybody is
free to use W2ML and write software to support it.

What is your vision for W2ML?

I hope that W2ML will be widely adopted by webmasters, that
a community appears, exchanges solutions, and that W2ML
becomes a standard language for read/write web pages.

What would you like to do next?

To found a family.

What do your family think of your job?

Very risky but I have to try.

What are you most proud of professionally?

Nothing until now, that’s why I created W2ML.

Which book are you reading at the moment?

I just finished “One Hundred Years of Solitude” but didn’t
like it much.

What other profession would you like to try.

None.

Marc Mongenet
Creator of the Web 2 Markup Language
http://w2ml.com

Yahoo announced in March 2008 that it will relocate its European head office from the United Kingdom to Switzerland. Yahoo plans to make the move to the shores of Lake Geneva within 18 months.

According to AP, Swiss media reported that Yahoo will benefit from a special tax break by moving to Switzerland.

Yahoo follows companies including EA and Cisco Systems that have relocated European Operations to Switzerland in recent times. The move would indicate business as usual for Yahoo despite Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid and rumored negotiations with other possible merger or acquisition partners.
Swiss info

Why Zurich well here’s the Google office there

Google boss
Google and the Queen

Why do some startups soar and others nose dive? Do you know? Have you initiated a startup and seen it succeed or fail. We’d like to hear from you good or bad. We learn more from failure than success
sometimes.

Write to us with your story we’ll publish your site and story if it’s useful.
Wisequeen

moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity

big companies rethinking
moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity. This is what start ups must do, last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Tech startups at a meet up in Zurich at Techcrunch.
There were 40 startups there and some really stood out like amazee where you can manage collaborations and projects online.
Watch video interviews

Wua.la social network storage solutions, Yattoo free TV on your laptop, W2ML a simple writing platform, Poken a new social, virtual gadget, Yes.com music sharing and voting for your site, and an opportunity to win 100,000 dollars by downloading itunes.

So many brilliant tech ideas from the sharpest minds in the business.
I’ll be featuring some of their interviews here over the following weeks. So subscribe to Wise queen on the RSS feed

Here’s the Yes.com interview with

Daniel Goldscheider

Hi Daniel

Where is your home town?
I was born in Vienna, Austria

Where are you living now?
I live in Lachen, Switzerland

What did you study after school?
I left University of Economics in Vienna

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Crane Operator
Austrian Prime Minister
First directly elected President of Europe

Tell me how yes came about
YES was conceived as a simple way to get the song you hear on radio and grew into a social medium after that.

Explain yes.com and radio reborn to me?
Radio has recently celebrated its 100th birthday. It’s old and it hasn’t changed much. YES adds a number of dimensions:

- see music videos that are synchronized with what you hear
-meet other people listening to the same broadcast
-vote for songs and influence the listener charts
-buy 4 songs from iTunes and win $100,000 if you match the station’s 4Tunes of that day.

What is your vision for this company?
I believe that YES will be a leading platform to enjoy broadcasts

What would you like to do next?
Something completely different.

What do your family think of your job?
My father is an advisor to the company, my mother would prefer a less demanding job offering more security

What are you most proud of professionally?
I am not proud yet.

Which book are you reading at the moment?
“God is not great” by Christopher Hitchens

What other profession would you like to try?
Too many including architect, lawyer, politician

Thanks,good to meet you at techcrunch.
Absolutely!

I hope to see you soon again,
Daniel

Why do some startups soar and others nose dive? Do you know? Have you initiated a startup and seen it succeed or fail. We’d like to hear from you good or bad. We learn more from failure than success
sometimes.

Write to us with your story well publish your site and story if it’s useful.
Wisequeen

blogher? just support her, it’s simple.

My post on the gender-specific event blogher, which I refered to as flogher due to the slapdown that ensued there, got some interesting comments from both sexes.

about Blogher.

Dear Kristen,

This is what happens in the corporate world every day. Put a whole bunch of ambitious, formerly-held-down women in a room and unleash their tongues, and you get what’s called a catfight or a smackdown, you choose.
Men have always protected each others sins and pleasures. Women don’t.

Ask any women who her fiercest critics have been, and you have your answer.
It’s the reason men rule the boardroom, we women are so competitive and “mean” to each other to use your own words, that I’d rather work in a room full of man eating lions than in corporate.
girldom.
We claim to not want divisions based on gender and then have “blogher.” Why not flogher?
And, if anyone of us, ( even those like me who try to support womens’ efforts where-ever I go), can say they don’t commit the sins you list below, regularly, then I’ll eat both my hat and shoes.
Sex in the city wasn’t a hit just because of the sex, it was the sharp competitive girl chat that made it a hit.

yours
Wisequeen.

Tags: behaviour, blogher, business, flogher, gender issues, girldom, gossip, men, opinions, roles, women, women in business

One of the most valuable comments, not just because I agree with every word of it, but because its the truth, was from my co-blogger over at b5media Miranda, she blogs at www.yieldlingwealth.com Here it is, let me know what you think guys( that’s guys and girls, for the politically correct among you)

July 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm edit

Women have many redeeming qualities as workers. But I do agree that solidarity with other women is not one of those qualities. As mentioned, men will protect each other’s sins and pleasures. But women have been brought up not to enjoy those pleasures, and society has routinely punished women for the pleasures men have traditionally enjoyed. Additionally, women have — for a large chunk of history (some of it quite recent) — been dependent on “their” men. For their survival, women have had to be aligned with and protected by husbands, fathers and brothers. It means that instead of identifying with each other, they have to identify with men. They have had to fight each other to “gain” protection from men. Women have, consequently, developed a set of weapons for advancement that is completely different from men’s.

I think it’s also interesting that some have expressed the opinion that women need to act more like men. You know what happens when women act more like men? They are castigated for doing so. Consider: When I openly competed with men and women in academia and in the workplace, I was labeled “aggressive” and “bitchy” and “too opinionated.” In other words, I was acting like a man. (But in men, aggressiveness — it’s called assertiveness when it’s a man — and strong opinions are valued.) But if I had been “sneaky” and “passive” in my efforts, “acting like a woman,” I would have been labeled “catty.” Women are in a very tough position: Just look at Hillary Clinton. When she “acted like a man” she was flogged by everyone for not being feminine enough. When she “acted like a woman” to soften her image, she was ridiculed for being too emotional and not tough enough to handle a “man’s job.” Michelle Obama is just starting to get the same sort of treatment. Bottom line: Society still doesn’t like women who “act like men.”

Women have come a long way — many of us overcoming the societal position and pressures we’ve been dealt. But there is still, obviously, a long way to go. miranda
Do you agree or disagree? your comments below please
Wisequeen

Something we can all agree on is that, the “businesstime” video below on my launch announcement, is hilarious, whatever gender you communicate in! Watch it, I defy you not to laugh.

Wisequeen launch party on August 1st, 2008 be there!

Un-common sense advice for business, life’s rules, etiquette, money, startups, entrepreneurship, conundrums, and everything in between.
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Flogher

Here’s my response to Kristen King’s post on her blog bizchicks rule

http://www.bizchicksrule.com

about Blogher.

Dear Kristen,

This is what happens in the corporate world every day. Put a whole bunch of ambitious, formerly-held-down women in a room and unleash their tongues, and you get what’s called a catfight or a smackdown, you choose.
Men have always protected each others sins and pleasures. Women don’t.

Ask any women who her fiercest critics have been, and you have your answer.
It’s the reason men rule the boardroom, we women are so competitive and “mean” to each other to use your own words, that I’d rather work in a room full of man eating lions than in corporate.
girldom.
We claim to not want divisions based on gender and then have “blogher.” Why not flogher
And, if anyone of us, ( even those like me who try to support womens’ efforts where-ever I go), can say they don’t commit the sins you list below, regularly, then I’ll eat both my hat and shoes.
Sex in the city wasn’t a hit just because of the sex, it was the sharp competitive girl chat that made it a hit.

* What do you do when you hear a rumor at work, or anywhere else for that matter? Do you listen to it? Do you ignore it? Do you repeat it?
* How do you react when others are gossiping in your presence? Do you participate? Do you sit by silently? Do you leave?
* Do you ever start or spread gossip and rumors about another woman at work or elsewhere in your life?
* Do you talk about other women when they’re not in the room?
* How do you handle it when you have a problem with another woman in your life? Do you talk to her about it, or do you talk to others about it?
* Do you discuss others’ failures at length, either in a closed group or in public forums?
* Do you mock other women who dress differently, speak differently, make different life choices? Do you participate or enable when others do?
* Do you make a point of bringing other people down?

yours
Wisequeen.