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= Entrepreneurship success and failures... =
JF Ayel is a serial entrepreneur. Here are his success and also his failures. You can benefit from  his entrepreneurship learning curve. You can also feed yourself with some experience transfers from JF Ayel. Just enter some '''conversations with JF Ayel'''...
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# Captain '''college''' football team. Paris League vice champion. 1964.
# '''Local newspaper'''. Startup & managing. 1965-1968. From 8pm to 12pm while preparing "Concours Grandes Ecoles" at Ginette France.
# Sports headmaster 8 teams: basket ball, football, rugby, volley ball. '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_nationale_supérieure_des_mines_de_Paris Ecole des Mines de Paris] University'''. 1968-1971. 
# PhD computer science. '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC_IV Illiac IV]'''. Ecole des Mines de Paris. 1971.
# '''Event'''. Football match. Partners searching, mailing, dealing, organising. Paris Saint Germain, Parc des Princes Paris. 24 Mai 1971
# '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET Arpanet]''' and Operational Research. Ministery of Defense France. Introduction of operational research into field applications both tactical and strategical. Graph theory and probabilities doctorate. 1971-1973.
# '''Pandore''' budget governement first software. 1973-1978 Ministery of Finances. Leading, startup, coding & running of small computing for first computerised France budget Pandore. Small team of only 5 people.
# Founding, '''coaching''', managing. '''[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igny_(Essonne) Igny Football club]'''. 1974-1981. 
# '''Silicon Valley''' first contact. 1976. "Microcomputers are to change computing"...
# '''Startup''' of first owned company. Silical Strasbourg 1978. Micro computing consulting & applications. '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series AppleII]''' number 48. '''Freelancers''' top to 75%. 
# Equipes autonomes, Twi and Ist technics, personal office productivity. CEO versailles France. 1978-1979
# Early world adopter of '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase DbaseII]''' software. Consulting. Implementation in banks, insurances, oil industry. Auto responsible teams. 1980-1989.
# Second startup: Ideograph: "New technologies made '''deadly simple'''". Plain old slides, '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCN_ExecuVision Execuvision]'''. Freelancers and partners top to 85%. 1981.
# '''New-York twin towers'''. 1982. "Frenchies explaining microcomputing to top wall street companies... what a challenge..."
# Senegal. '''[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_sénégalaise_des_phosphates_de_Taïba Taiba]'''. 1983. "Relocalisation of management process: initiation to micromputing...  very different challenge, exciting too..."
# Honk kong. 1984. First '''joint venture''' to build IBM pc clones in '''China'''.
# Third startup. Take benefit of Berlin wall fall. ASPM GmbH Germany 1990. "New technology '''direct marketing solutions''' for big pharmaceuticals firms".
# 1993, '''Internet''' first seminars for '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_500 Fortune 500]''' top executives. 
# CD Rom publishing. Miami USA, Montreal Canada. World zoom. 1994.
# Design, fabrication, world delivery. China, Europe teleworking. '''Formulettes© handheld computer 7$/piece''': keyboard, lcd 4 lines. 35000 units, 112 countries. 1996.
# Spain move 1999. Someday '''zero travel?'''... 1999 travels for meetings fall to 15%... Now travel is only 5%. Mediawikis and some skype do 95% of the job... 
# '''Open Source''' contribution. '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org Open Office]'''. 2000...
# 2004, Wikipedia first Mediawiki personal contributions. "Mediawikis and web2.0 are going to change the world..." '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jfayel Wikipedia user:jfayel]'''
# '''Web2.0''' "local newspapers" '''http://diwiki.org'''. Startup of the first local webnewspaper at Zaragoza Spain, 2006. Extension in 2009 into a world network of webinfos.
# 2007: '''[https://twitter.com/jfayel Twitter]''', Friendfeed, '''[http://jfayel.posterous.com/ Posterous]''' personal and marketing use... "The social is the Internet..."
# '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing Cloud computing]''' tops to 99% for JF Ayel personal and work use. 2009...
# ... more to come...
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