The weekly life of a travel startup - Goodbye the web, Hello Le Web

This week was a pretty busy week with the 6th iteration of LeWeb in Paris, organised by Geraldine and Loic Lemeur. I arrived in Paris on Sunday and enjoyed the comfort of a lovely Parisian flat and a great office thanks to the fantastic hospitality of Gary (@garycige) from Zilok.

I met several VCs on Monday and Tuesday and quickly discovered that many French investors do get travel and the opportunity for innovation and disruption. Between meetings I could focus on my presentation for LeWeb and enjoy some fantastic food and wine.

The highlights of LeWeb…

* Christopher Sacca (@sacca) on stage (man, you made me want to become a porn-star) check it out here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2860866

* Gary Vaynerchuk on stage, just crush it.

* Many other magic presenters and a great winner for the Startup competition: Stribe, with a really cool product.

* And of course a great presentation of Kukunu, see coverage on Techcrunch here: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/leweb-kukunu-wants-to-be-your-travel-agent-online/

I ended the week back in London for a fantastic Seedsummit where, together with the other Seedcamp finalists, I had the opportunity to pitch in front of investors. Being able to discuss Kukunu with people like Brent Hoberman, Martin Varsavsky, Dave McClure and Jeff Clavier was magic.

This is the end of a pretty exciting week, in the meantime Gerald (my co-founder) developed some great new features that we are beta testing right now. Sign up on http://www.kukunu.com to participate in the private beta, we should extend it in the coming weeks.

Comments

[location villa bali]

Hi I like your concept of La Web. Can you give some more details on it?? How to implement it??

[Franklin]

Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that.