Loïc Le Meur

A French Entrepreneur & Blogger

Entrepreneur

• Executive VP & Managing Director of Europe, Six Apart, the Company behind TypePad and Movable Type
• Ublog.com,
  2003-present, founder & CEO. A European blogging tool and host, acquired by Six Apart in June 2004.
• Tekora, 2000-2002, founder & CEO. An ASP driven websites
  publisher for small businesses, sold to Access-Commerce (a
  public French software company) and then spined-off and relaunched
  (now I am just a business angel) as a mobile enabled and friendly
  website publishing tool. Raised Û6,1M from ABN AMRO, BNP
  Paribas, Société Générale Asset
  Management and fd5.
  
• RapidSite France, 1996-1999, founder. Quickly became the #1
  small business shared web hosting company in France and sold to France Telecom that
  integrated it into its Wanadoo offer.
• B2L, 1996-1999,
  founder & CEO. One of the first web agencies launched in
  France. Clients included Chanel, Peugeot, 20th Century Fox
  and many other major brands. Sold to the leading advertising group BBDO.

Activist & Speaker

• World Economic Forum,
  Member & Advisory Board member of the
  GLT Community, speaker (2004
  European Economic Summit "Building a Business-Friendly Europe" (Video of the speech), 2004 Davos, "blogs
  and journalism", 2002 Davos,
  "the Future of Europe")


• Supernova 2004, speaker.
  
• Jury Member & Speaker at the French Venture Capital & Entrepreneurs event Capital-IT.
• "Maître de Conférences" at the French Business School HEC, HEC-Entrepreneurs.
  
• Jury President in 1999 of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival Cyber Lions.
  
• Jury Member of the 2000 Clio Awards.

Occasional author

• "Minding your own business. French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur offers seven golden rules - for doing nothing", The Guardian, 2004.
• "La publicité sur Internet", Dunod, a book of the French Chapter of the Internet Advertising Bureau.

Education & family

• 34, Married, three children
• Graduated in 1996 from the French Business School HEC.

Some Press clips

• "At the Davos Conference, Small Fry With Big Dreams", by Erik Portanger, Wall Street Journal, 2004.
• "With bloggers inside, Davos secrets are out", by Thomas Crampton, International Herald Tribune, 2004.
• "Le Meur is a young man in a hurry who walks fast, talks fast,
  and starts businesses fast" in
  "The next French Revolution", by Cait Murphy, CNN, 2000.

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