I hope the waiting wasn’t too long.

Please welcome my friend and think-tank AFIDORA & business university HEC Paris fellow Alexandre Lucas, a new contributor on Tech IT Easy.

From Day 1, I had the idea of opening this blog to different friend-contributors, and when Alex told me about his willingness to post his ideas, it just looked like the perfect opportunity to offer my readership even better analyses on the high-tech industry.

Alexandre, just like me, is in the process of learning everything about the Information Technology industry, since he’ll join Goldman Sachs as an investment banker in the Technology & Media group upon graduation, in June 2007.

So whilst my posts often deal with the technology itself & entrepreneurship, Alex’s post I guess will focus more on commenting high-tech news from a corporate strategy & finance viewpoint. Alex will for sure provide us with great strategy insights and financial tips, and I’m glad to have him here as of today with me.

One might ask why Alex doesn’t open his own blog: basically, Alex’s contribution will be very punctual. He might blog 8 posts in a row and then stop blogging for 3 months. Being a guest, he is most welcome anytime he feels he’s got something interesting to share. You might expect other friends to join me in the Tech IT Easy adventure later on.

This being said, thank you in advance for leaving a greeting comment to Alex, my first blogging guest ever, for his soon to come first post ever.

See if you know the basics about YouTube.

Here are some figures linked with YouTube, let’s see if you know what these numbers refer to:

1. 1,6 bn$ (easy)
2. 10 m$ (easy if you read Tech IT Easy)
3. 2,5 bn
4. 2 hours
5. 60%
6. 28

As usual, I owe a beer/or coffee/or Perrier to the winner (I already owe beers to Michel, Vincent, François-Albert, Ole & Mark – congrats again to you all for your past performance).

PS: David, the title was all for you

I’m fed up with wires. I can’t stand wires anymore. There are wires every-fucking-where. For about a decade, we’ve been told by Gartner analysts, blue chip companies CEOs & even our grandmothers that wires would disappear very, very soon. But the more we wait, the more wires there are. Wires are like cancer: there’s nothing you can do against it unless you spend your time looking for wires & eradicating them ASAP. It can’t be ‘very soon’ anymore.

Anyways, what does ‘very soon’ mean? The world’s been existing for million years. And even by Jewish standards (calendar year 5767), waiting for a century would be peanuts, in other words ‘very soon’.

So, when? Please, do something! Yes, you. No, don’t pick up your ringing phone, leave your MSN windows where they are and your weblog readers may certainly wait 2 minutes more for your new post to be released.

Take 2 minutes to think. Think of a world in which there wouldn’t be any single wire anymore. Beautiful, isn’t it.

Now, if your neural network is still fit enough to get back to work, think of new solutions to eradicating wires. Disruptive solutions. It seems that all the people down there, from the analysts to the experts, have mistaken. The wireless problems is simple to determine but extremely difficult to solve.

Disclaimer: as you may have noticed if you visit this blog often, this post was actually not an ‘Entrepreneurial business idea’ but rather an ‘Entrepreneurial busines kick in the butt’.