Mathieu Nouzareth's Blog

Hats off to Martin Varsavsky

I watched this video in which Martin Varsasky explains his entrepreneur background:
- Started Viatel and sold it for 1,2 billions euros
- Started Jazztel and sold it for 1 billions euros
- Started ya.com and sold it for 550 millions euros with 38 millions of investments

If anyone can think of a more successful european technology entrepreneur, I'd like to know ! There maybe a few who have sold ONE company for more but THREE in a row !!

Hats off Martin !

Is twitter useful ?

I have been using Twitter for a few months now. Is it useful ? I am not sure folks are interested in what I am doing. Anyway I am interested to know what my close friends are up to.

You can follow my twitter feed here (if you use a Mac I would recommend Twitterific)

Tech Talk in Menorca

I am back from Techtalk in Menorca where I gave a small speech about cafe.com. Thanks to Martin Varsavsky, I have spent a great week-end, met wonderful people. As is often the case in those occasions, it is a very good moment to share experience with fellow entrepreneurs and it is always inspiring.

My WAN is faster than my LAN !

In our Paris office, we are lucky enough to have a fiber optical line at 100 MBs both ways (download and upload). My Macbook has wifi G installed, so that's 54MBs max. Turns out that real life performance of the Apple Airport Express bas station is closer to 20 Mbs (I am siting 2 meters away from the station).

So for the first time in my life I have a WAN faster than my LAN ! I remember when I started my first internet company in 1995, the best we could have for about 2 000 euros per month was a dedicated leased line at 64KBs...

I was testing speed with Speedtest and I found that I am peaking at 17 MBS with the wifi and close to 60Mbs with the ethernet cord ( and I am sure it is limited by the 100MBs switch we have in the office)... Speedtest tells me that at this speed, I am faster than 99% of the broadband connections in the world.

I guess I'll have to either use ethernet form now on, or buy the new Macbook with Wifi N (supposedly much faster than the G version at 250 MBs). Has anyone had experience with N wifi ? Is it really faster in real life ? Does the new Apple Airport Extreme handles over 100 MBs in real life ?