Hervé Lebret, EPFL Swiss Tech Institute, Difference in Europe & US Venture Capitalists

Hervé Lebret manages the Innogrants @ EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), a program supporting startup creation. The program includes grants to entrepreneurs and conferences where role models share their entrepreneurial experience with students and researchers. From 1997 to 2004, he was with Index Ventures, the pan-European venture capital firm which invested in Skype, mysql, Virata, Addex, Genmab. He began his career in academia in electrical engineering and applied mathematics at ENSTA and ONERA (Paris). He is also the author of the book "Start-Up, what we may still learn from Silicon Valley". Hervé Lebret is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Université de Rennes. You can find Herve @ his blog http://wwww.startup-book.com & on Twitter:@hlebret http://www.twitter.com/hlebret Thanks to Alexander Blu for music 'Electricity' http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/11977 For further info check out http://www.ezebis.com Distributed by Tubemogul.

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