{"id":3628,"date":"2012-10-05T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.wordpress.com\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:32:13","slug":"of-entrepreneurship-in-silicon-valley-blogbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/en\/2012\/10\/05\/of-entrepreneurship-in-silicon-valley-blogbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwarter founders talking about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Entrepreneurship in Silicon\u00a0Valley isn’t as easy as it may seem. On day 4 of our Blogger Bus Tour, we met with Carlos Diaz, the CEO and founder of Kwarter and Guillaume de Cugis, CEO and co-founder of <\/i>Scoop\u2019it<\/a>, two French entrepreneurs who left their country in order to take their venture to the next level and \u2026 change the world! (this post was originally written for the Live Orange Blog)<\/i><\/p>\n

Kwarter founders talking about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley<\/h2>\n
\"Silicon<\/a>
We went to San Francisco to have a chat with Diaz, the founder of Kwarter, who talked to us about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Kwarter: how it all started<\/p>\n

\"Kwarter\"
Carlos Diaz, CEO and founder of Kwarter: true Silicon Valley entrepreneurship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kwarter started off with sports. The idea is to use your mobile in order to connect and comment, hangout.<\/p>\n

There is also a gamification (see my Vlab piece on that subject) angle of using such kinds of applications while watching TV and changing the user experience: the more you engage, the more you get points and also credits and eventually, you are able to redeem your credits to get t-shirts and other freebies.<\/p>\n

The start-up decided to tackle sports as their first topic (Fan cake, the first social game to be edited and released by Kwarter is just about that) because \u201cjust watching TV isn\u2019t enough anymore.<\/p>\n

The trend seen in Silicon Valley is to turn each passive experience into an interactive one\u201d.<\/p>\n

The focus is on American sports only at the moment: American Football, Hockey and Baseball \u2026 but it should be a piece of cake (sorry, I couldn\u2019t resist it) to extend it to European preferred games such as football and handball.<\/p>\n

Diaz, the founder of Bluekiwi Software, whom I have known for years and I was very happy to see again in San Francisco, started the company in Summer 2011 and did a quick prototype which helped him raise\u00a0 seed money very quickly. All this is very classic, although many start-uppers tend to forget about it; the name of the game is: prove the concept quickly, put together the technology, build the user engagement model, and find the business model \u2026 fast.<\/p>\n

Things have to go fast in the land of the Gold Rush.<\/p>\n

A pivot around the initial business model<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe first idea was to have our own application and build traffic based on our brand. The ten next years will be about Gamification<\/strong>\u201d Carlos Diaz added. In 2011 they Kwarter\u2019s pilot was turned into a platform for other brands<\/em> because they realised that they had to do this for others, not under their own brand.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, they signed a deal with Turner and Bud Light; just that! Turner will kick-start its operation about the Baseball playoff. And we are not talking about small business but \u201chalf million dollar deals!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Diaz \u2013 like many others we saw in Silicon Valley \u2013 has managed to make his company pivot around its existing business model and hit the bull\u2019s eye. Well done!<\/p>\n

Big corporations doing their shopping<\/h3>\n

\u201cI was really amazed at the way on how large corporations were shopping for innovation in the Valley\u201d Diaz went on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do with Turner will be very disruptive: whatever you do will be displayed on the screen. For instance, as baseball players will be displayed on the screen, an overlay bubble will be shown with comments from Kwarter such as \u201c20% of people believe this player will do a home run!\u201d<\/p>\n

Baseball fans won\u2019t have to wait too long for the launch date will be October 5th, 2012.<\/p>\n

Twitter (but not Facebook) is paying for TV channels to use its service<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo far we see the Twitter mentions on TV. But Twitter is paying broadcasters for this\u201d <\/strong>Diaz said. \u201cThis is why Facebook isn\u2019t seen on TV because Facebook refuses to pay for that kind of display\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Setting up one\u2019s business in the Valley<\/h3>\n

Is it easy to set up a business here when one comes from Europe? \u201cSometimes I feel like Silicon Valley is like Disneyland\u201d Diaz explained facetiously. \u201cPeople are very na\u00efve and they think that building a business is easy but it\u2019s not. Just being turned down in Europe isn\u2019t sufficient to launch a good company in the States\u201d the French entrepreneur added.<\/p>\n

In 1999, Silicon Valley was a boring place!<\/h3>\n

De Cugis said that \u201cin 1999 and 2001 Silicon Valley was a very boring place. It all changed with Social Media, when some tech tsars became stars. It took me two years to adapt to the way of doing business here.<\/p>\n

After six months you realise that if you want to be part of this game, you can\u2019t be part of it because you\u2019re not part of the ecosystem and I started getting very frustrated.<\/p>\n

Then I realised all this was for real and I adapted to the way I needed to think of this as a real business.<\/p>\n

One year isn\u2019t enough, it takes two years at least. And partnering is one thing but you need to have a good reason to come here.<\/p>\n

Living in the Valley is expensive, taxes much higher than Europe<\/h3>\n

\u201cThis is a difficult move\u201d Diaz went on. \u201cPersonal life is very expensive here, even more if you have kids. A house with 2 kids costs $6,000 per month! Taxes are a lot higher than even in France<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And this is because life is so expensive that people want to get very fast. This is why people want their projects to take off in such a hurry.<\/p>\n

People are very focussed on their jobs but they sort of work round the clock and have no vacations. Here there is nothing apart from tech, everyone is in high-tech. Even the salesman from the AT&T shop wants to start his own start-up\u201d.<\/p>\n

Scoop\u2019it, from Toulouse to the Valley<\/h3>\n

Scoopit also went to NYC and hesitated between NYC and Silicon Valley. In NYC, the tech scene is competing with a lot of other things though. \u201cIf you go to the local Starbuck\u2019s there, there are few chances that you will bump into a tech entrepreneur\u201d De Cugis explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere it\u2019s a small city, there are only 700,000 inhabitants. You could go to a meet-up every night. And all that happens in Soma, you don\u2019t even need to drive up to Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

Setting up your business in Paris is a mistake<\/h3>\n

Although many would disagree, Diaz declared that \u201cfounding your start-up in Paris is a mistake, unless you are into Fashion or if you want to become a leader in your own country.<\/p>\n

All successful French start-ups (e.g. Meetic<\/a>, Priceminister<\/a>,\u2026) aren\u2019t known to anybody here. In order to do something to change the world, to be a game changer, one has to have a large market to start with\u201d Diaz contended.<\/p>\n

Changing the world is hard<\/h3>\n

Yet, changing the world is hard\u2026 even in the Silicon Valley, and if believing in one\u2019s dreams is important, one needs to avoid pulling the wool over one\u2019s eyes. This, in a nutshell is what I withdrew from that passionate expos\u00e9 by Carlos and Guillaume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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