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Entrepreneurs 2.0: Web Tools to Develop Your Project (France)

Surfing on the wave of web 2.0, services for entrepreneurs are springing up everywhere like mushrooms. Here we present the latest new service and some of its interesting tools.

Capital Risqueur.tv (also accessible via Business Angels.tv) is a community web TV for project initiators to make themselves known. Each member has an own page on the website featuring a short description and five short videos that answer five simple questions: Mission? Target group? Added value? Strategy ? Challenges to be faced ?

But capital risqueur.tv’s real ace in the hole is the so called CIM, a Multimedia Identity Card. This card is an exportable module that can be inserted into a blog or a website and on which the project is concisely presented. Here as an example the CIM of BuzzParadise.

What we like about the website: the direct approach (short videos, no waste of time), the visual research function, the CIM. What we miss: there are no links to the project websites on the profile page, the URL of each project is too complicated, due to the lack of content the website rather conveys the impression of a video directory. The website is still a beta version; the final version will be launched in September or October.

Here the article by TechCrunch on the subject (in French).

Of course, Capital Risqueur.tv is not the only web 2.0 site offering services to founders of new businesses. There are numerous tools to assist them in developing their projects.

Firstly, have the right idea. A great source of inspiration is Springwise, a website that lists the best business ideas on the planet.
Then, set up a business plan. Here we have PlanHQ. This done you only need to refine your elevator pitch, here or here.
And, finally, find Business Angels. This can be done by using professional social networks or a service like Capital Risqueur.tv. Among the social networks, apart from the musts like Viadeo, LinkedIn, 6nergies and Xing, there are also Ryze and Join2Grow.biz, the latter specifically directed towards project initiators. When it comes to web TV, besides Capital Risqueur there is also vator.tv, a website that makes your project visible for potentially interested investors. In this category we have discovered a new initiative which according to trendwatching functions along the same lines as Female Fever,a network of Women Business Angels promoting women’s investments.