Growing from coComment
I spent an hour today with Carsten Schloter and Daniel Ritz, the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer of Swisscom, the telecom giant inside which we developed coComment.
We met after Mr. Schloter participated in a TV debate (video here, in french), and we agreed we would meet again to review the (numerous) lessons learned on the project.
Obviously coComment was a very interesting experience, a frontal collision between two very different worlds: a fast paced, creative, crazy and unstructured web 2.0 project exploding inside a massive, structured and established organization. We all learned a lot, sometimes from our mistakes.
We talked about that today, with the two persons who can change things. And both guys left with a full page of notes about how the new economic conditions demand quicker decisions, a more participative approach, better preparation in case your idea becomes hotter than the superbowl, etc…
It was the final chapter of an amazing experience which, despite ending up with the fathers of the idea (myself and Nicolas Dengler, now head of product development at Netvibes) leaving the project, taught as a lot (check my lessons-learned presentation here) and took us around the world, from Sandhill road to Shibuya. A lot assets for the next adventure.
I was with Nicolas today, and we discussed a few ideas. Maybe we will have something else coming to your screen soon, stay tuned (and call if you are looking for investment opportunities ;-)
