recommend: recommendations from people you trust
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After one year of hard work developing, debugging and testing our concept with hundreds of first users, We are proud to announce the official launch of Recommend! We've designed Recommend so people can finally SAVE TIME making BETTER CHOICES, thanks to their network. Powered by an algorithm based on trust and relevance, our network enables you to find the best advice from people you know or experts you wish to follow. You can also save your own recommendations and share them privately with your trusted friends only or become an influencer recognized for his expertise. Create your account on http://re.co or download our new IPhone app here http://bit.ly/recoapp If you're an expert or influencer in any of our topics, or know someone who is, don't hesitate to reach out to us Feedback is always welcomed. Happy recommending!TRANSCRIPT
Product Overview October 2013
What problem is Recommend solving? Word-of-mouth has always been the best way to choose products and services.
But recommendations from experts and trusted friends are spread all over the internet and mostly have remained offline.
Recommend is the first online network to gather and deliver customized advice the way we do it in our everyday life.
How is Recommend solving that problem?
Get the right recommendations ... in the right place, at the right time, from people you trust.
Recommend enables you to find, save, retrieve and share all relevant experiences about places, products & services in one place.
Quality over Quantity Recommend is designed to be used by experts & influencers in a public/follower mode as well as trusted friends in a private mode, avoiding social noise and irrelevant reviews from strangers.
Recommend is powered by a crawling engine gathering professional and experts contents from finely selected websites and by an algorithm based on trust and context.
Social Reward Recommend focuses on keeping the memory of useful social interactions enabling :
• Power-users to finally be recognized for their areas of expertise,
• Trusted friends to thank each other in time for great advice.
Save time and make better choicesfor every type of service or product you’re looking for, thanks to people you trust
Features
Explore Filter recommendations by people, topics, location and time.
Choose people you trust : follow experts and take advice from your trusted friends.
Manage Save and retrieve all your relevant experiences from places to products to services.
Connect and re-organize your social network based on trusted people.
Collect recos and create customized lists.
Recommend Make recommendations very easily and share with your private network only or become a trusted influencer recognized for his expertise & relevance.
Trusted Team
Nicolas Mendiharat
41, founder & CEO. Graduate from ESCP. Serial entrepreneur.
Nicolas has built his first company Totem in 1994 which he sold in 1999 to the TUI group. He was also the founder of Busresa (software sold in 2004). He was
the founder & CEO of skihorizon.com from 1999 to 2011, the largest European ski vacation
website with up to 300K customers and 70M€ turnover.
François Cerdan
43, co-founder & CTO. Also founder and CEO of Flag Systems.
François has a 20 years experience in managing IT teams
and building software with complex database algorithms. His
main back-office software i-resa powers a lot of big travel
companies in France.
Christophe Leon
41, co-founder & CMO. Former Marketing Director at voyages-
sncf.com. He is the CEO & founder of Pure Agency, one of Paris’
largest mobile apps services and mobile media agency.
Team
Benoit Menet
29, COO. Formerly Senior Project Manager at Pure
Agency, one of Paris largest mobile services and mobile
media agency. Graduate from EPITA, Benoit has led
important mobile overhaul and innovative development
projects with complex IT background for companies
such as Fnac, Bouygues Telecom, SNCF, La Redoute,
Leroy Merlin and RueDuCommerce.
Nicolas Duminil
29, Marketing strategist & Community manager. Nicolas has been working in the digital
space for nearly a decade. Most recently, he has served as a
Digital Strategy consultant for various sized startups and
events. Through his work at eYeka, he led the development of the largest international co-creation of community creative consumers generating insights for Fortune 500 brands & top
agencies.
Nicolas Millasseau
25, iOS Lead Developer. +5 years in mobile development.
Overstacked iOS developer with strong IT background. Born in
France, graduated with a master degree in computer
graphics, Nicolas has studied between France, UK and the US. He now lives in Belgrade
and has worked as a freelance for different companies located
in France and Serbia.
Adrien Colombié
22, Art Director. Native of France, Adrien experienced his first foray in Barcelona into the advertising world with Publicis –
Carrénoir. Then he headed back to France to work at
Fred&Farid Digital in Paris. Then, he moved to New York City, working as a freelancer for agencies such as Mother
NYC. Bursting with ideas, he pushes the boundaries of
creativity and quality of each project.
Gilles Dassac
43, Solution Architect & Tech Lead. +20 years of experience
in IT engineering. Ex-CEO & founder of Neverso, a company
specialized in IT consulting, complex database
development, BI & analytics. Also, Gilles has led complex
travel backoffice projects as a Tech Director at Flag Systems.
With his very strong IT experience, Gilles makes
everything possible.
Advisors & Investors
Loïc Le Meur
Serial web entrepreneur. Founder & ex-CEO of Seesmic.
LeWeb founder.
Catherine Barba
Serial web entrepreneur. Founder of Cashstore &
Malinea.
Xavier Garambois
Amazon global Europe MD
Patrick Jacquemin
Founder & ex-CEO of rueducommerce.com, one of
the largest French online store
Vincent Karachira
Founder & CEO of Next Performance, one of the largest
retargeting ads business.
20+ business angels mainly IT, web & mobile entrepreneurs20+
Thank you.
Nicolas Mendiharat Founder & CEO !Mobile : +33 6 07 44 19 47 Mail : [email protected]
Recommendations from people you trust
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A few links
Mashable
Report: 70% of Consumers Trust Brand Recommendations From Friends
Tnooz
The user experience revolution on mobile travel services: from mobile-first to mobile-only
How did you find the hotel?: Survey of 20,000 hotel guest done in 2012
marketing-professionnel.fr
Les vendeurs, 9 fois moins influents que famille ou amis
With Twitter’s IPO, 5 Key Things You Need to Understand about the Social Ad Revolution
Frenchweb
Lancement de Recommend, les avis de confiance sur mobile
Journal du Net
Découvrez les 5 derniers candidats à la Startup Competition de LeWeb
France Info
Le boom des applis : ces start-up qui innovent
BFM TV
LeWeb '12 : Trois jeunes pousses françaises à l'honneur
Usine Nouvelle
LeWeb '12: Le français Qunb remporte la competition des startups
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