It was really great to watch all these videos on Youtube from LeWeb this year. I wasn't there but I think I got quite a good feeling of the vibe, the ideas & various trends that were being discussed across the 3 days.

A couple of things that did strike me:

• Why do we still talk in Europe about the role of governments in the start up ecosystem? Its obvious that creative people are everywhere and some of them will make the step and reach out to investors wherever these are for setting up a company. The location where you set up your company and the taxation is really another issue. But trying to create a cocoon for attracting innovative minds that will create high growth companies through legal and tax reforms is really not going to work for young entrepreneurs I think.
• Why do we still speak in English? I don't have the stats in front of me now, but we have seen that English is not any more THE language of the web and mobile. There must be multilingual support and they must invite people who do not speak English or do not want to speak English to present their amazing companies and start ups. Really some of us will never get the right accent or adequate vocabulary so why exclude for example Brazilian, Japanese, Russian or other entrepreneurs who are not advanced English speakers? Language was and is a barrier to such events and it should not be any more.