Do you want to know why Israel didn´t make it to the World Cup in Germany? Check this video out. By the way, many thanks to Neila for the link.

Apart from that and on such videos in general, I read in this week´s issue of the British free-market newspaper The Economist that some advertising companies specialize in creating funny and shocking videos. One example they provide is Kontraband, a London-based firm specialized in “viral” marketing. Such advertising videos are aimed at creating an online buzz, mainly through e-mails and links sent amongst friends – exactly like Neila sent the video to me.

Emmanuel le Sellier de Chézelles founded JeuxVideoPC.com, the leading French-speaking website on PC Video Games matters (tests, new releases, tricks, trends, etc.), in 2000. At that time (he was still a high-school student), he already knew he was, and was all the more becoming, a true entrepreneur.

But instead of dropping out (like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. – nice comparison, don´t you think?), Emmanuel went on to French preparatory classes to business schools competitive exams. In other words, hell! I can tell you from undergoing preparatory classes myself, it takes more than a three-figures IQ to study like a Japanese in these extremely intensive environments, and develop your own Internet-company AT THE SAME TIME!!

Emmanuel not only managed to make of JeuxVideoPC.com the leading PC games website in the French-speaking world, he also succeeded in passing the competitive exam of the most selective business university in France. Do you think he then started to look down on his friends?

Not at all. Emmanuel and I are classmates at HEC Paris. Could you believe that it took me several months to get to hear (not from him) about his venture? Emmanuel is extremely humble, and at the same time terribly effective, driven, and learnt. Having employees and managing a very profitable website never changed his tremendous people skills. On the contrary, Emmanuel still believes he has a great deal of things to learn about entrepreneurship, Internet technology and management. And he keeps spotting new trends: his team recently launched a website dedicated to booming Flash games: JeuxVideo-Flash.

Last week, Emmanuel finalized his exit from JeuxVideoPC.com, sold out to Groupe Best of Micro, a top-50 Internet media company in France (bestofmicro, presence-pc.com, infosdunet.com). Well done Emmanuel!

Though Emmanuel´s now on the map, bets aren´t opened regarding his future projects: Emmanuel shows his long-term commitment by staying more involved than ever in JeuxVideoPC.com. Emmanuel believes synergies between Groupe Best of Micro´s hardware sites and JeuxVideoPC.com are tremendous and potentially provide room for two-digits growth.

One thing that´s certain is that Emmanuel belongs to the forthcoming generation of French entrepreneurs, knowledgeable of the extraordinary buzzing opportunities of the Internet, and ethically-minded.

If you´re a VC or a business angel, I advise you to watch ITaddict carefully to be able to jump on Emmanuel´s next venture financing bandwagon. I´ll make sure I keep you posted.