From concept to social impact (and cash)...

We developped and launched an innovative crowdfunding platform based on 0% loans within 6 months time. hellomerci.com, borrow from those who care, helps people with personal or entrepreneurial projects get loans and energy from their community and the people. How a 4-people team has built and is now running such a complex system? How we managed (and sometimes failed) to connect a highly productive team with a much slower external environment? What are the cultural conflicts that arise when people with a “minimum marketable feature” vision meet people with an...

Pierre Pezziardi, Hello Merci

Entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker. Pierre advocates the idea of “convivial computing”: systems aimed at empowering people, opening up pyramidal organizations and supporting self-organized teams. He is OCTO Technology co-founder, a leading IT consulting firm in France, and originated the USI conference, gathering since 2008 a community of leaders in large corporate Information Systems. He founded Octopus Microfinance, now the leading Open Source Platform for the microfinance industry. Octopus is a worldwide community of practitioners in Lean and Agile...