Start-Up, a culture of innovation - Tapa blanda

Almost 10 years ago, I wrote a book entitled Start-up, what we may still learn from Silicon Valley. If I had to do a second edition, I don’t think I'd change much despite all the flaws and blunders of the exercise. Yet one morning in February 2016, I had a look at ten years of supporting start-up entrepreneurs and decided to send again old and also new messages to those that the world of innovation and high-tech entrepreneurship puzzles or interests.

Hervé Lebret is in charge of support to start-up creation at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He manages a pre-seed fund for students and researchers, the Innogrants, and teaches entrepreneurship. Until 2004, he was with Index Ventures, a pan-European venture capital firm which invested in Skype, mysql, Virata, Genmab. He began his career as a researcher in electrical engineering and applied mathematics in Paris. He is the author of the book "Start-Up, what we may still learn from Silicon Valley" and related blog www.startup-book.com. Lebret is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford University. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Université de Rennes.