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Loïc Le Meur
serial entrepreneur & blogger
loiclemeur.com
Loïc is a well-known serial French entrepreneur who created and sold 4 Internet startups, also blogger and vlogger. Loic's blog is #1 in France, read by more than 250 000 unique visitors per month, he made hundreds of video podcasts including the only podcast with President Nicolas Sarkozy). Working on his next venture, Loïc is also honorary Chairman at Six Apart, the leading weblog software company and investor in tens of startups such as LinkedIn or Technorati. He also organizes every year one of Europe's largest web event, LeWeb3, that gathered 1300 participants from 37 Countries in 2006. It is a unique event capable of gathering Internet entrepreneurs, visionaries and politicians such as Nobel Prize Winner Shimon Peres. Loic also joined President Sarkozy campaign team during the 2007 elections, advising on the Internet, gathered a network of 1000 bloggers for him and launched the Second Life Sarkozy Island. Loic graduated from the #1 business school in France, HEC.
Loïc served as Executive VP of Six Apart EMEA from 2003 to 2007 and founded and served as CEO for several companies in France, including U-blog, a european blog service in 2003; RapidSite France, the first shared Web hosting company launched in 1997. Rapid Site France was sold to France Telecom and B2L, one of the first Web agencies launched in France in 1996, with clients including Chanel, 20th Century Fox, and Mars, which was sold to BBDO, a leading advertising group. Loïc is also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He launched the WEF blog in 2004 and has been advising and blogging for the Forum since then.
Loïc Le Meur on Wikipedia
Top 10 French blogs - Technorati - Edelman Europe blog survey in 2006
Web presence
What is Loïc doing ? - Twitter
Loïc Le Meur blog - english
Loïc Le Meur blog - french
Flickr photos
Vpod.tv loiclemeur videos
LeWeb3 conference, photos
Books
2007 - Blogs & Podcasts - Dunod
2005 - Blogs pour les Pros - Dunod
oh and occasional articles: "Minding your own business. French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur offers seven golden rules - for doing nothing", The Guardian
Speaker
-to get an idea, see me at Google Zeitgest 2006 on blogging and the amateur revolution
-some public appeareances
Politics
I have podcasted and backed President Nicolas Sarkozy during the 2007 presidential campaign and advised him on Internet related topics, I also blogged I would vote for him on September 10, 2006. I also joined his campaign team. That does not prevent me from having fantastic friends from with different political views and very interesting conversations with them. It just means being very transparent with my blog readers. My political role or ambitions end here. A controversy started when I invited the three main presidential candidates at my conference LeWeb3. Two of them came.
Some press articles, (more)
-French politics go surreal, Reuters, Red Herring, 2007
-Politicians Woo Internet Crowd In Paris, Red Herring, 2006
-France's mysterious embrace of blogs (cover page and following of the IHT), 2006
-France's passion for Web logs is beginning to alter the political and business climate, Business Week, 2005
-"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.
Hobbies
Kite-Surfing
Running (best semi-marathon time 1h36)
Skiing
Education
Graduated in 1996 from HEC business school
Contact:
blog@loiclemeur.com
snail mail
Loïc Le Meur
Six Apart
48 rue de la Bienfaisance
75008 Paris
Pictures, see also thousands on Flickr
In a conference in Madrid, by Alvy, higher def
Running the Boulogne semi-marathon (higher def)
With Shimon Peres and Yossi Vardi at my conference LeWeb3, by SachaQS, high res
At LeWeb3
With some unknown bloggers Hugh, Robert and Doc at Reboot in Copenhagen by geofones
At Kinnernet in Israel, high, by Heiko
At LeWeb3 by Feuillu, high
On Stage with President Nicolas Sarkozy, during the 2007 Campaign. photo: Marco Pirrone
