After having supported Franck Lefeuvre, CEO of Adfever, in the preparation of its fundraising during several months, B.D.C has decided to take a minority stake in Adfever.

Adfever has developed innovative tools of website payment and has recently taken over F.L.V (www.flv.fr). The firm has known a sharp growth despite the slowing down of the online advertisement market in 2009. It expects to reach the full stop at the end of 2010. [...]

Throughout meetings with reknown experts and managing directors from very performing firms, Jérôme Gayet has accumulated a lot of knowledge and know-how that he wanted to pass on through a book.

As part of its activities of corporate venturing, B.D.C has decided to support the creation of a Franco-Brazilian investment fund in high-tech. Thus, B.D.C will be the European representative of the fund and will be responsible for relationships with investors and the detection of European internet concepts that could be exported to Brazil.

Brazilian markets of the internet and softwares still remain emerging and offer strong growing opportunities: Brazil is already the 5th most connected country in the world with 67 million of web-surfers! Brazilian consumers are hardly discovering e-business whereas they spend 24h per month logged on to the internet. [...]

The “Business Development” blog is edited by Jérôme Gayet and deals with topics concerning firms development.

What are the differences between a consultant in strategy and a consultant in business development?

The consultant in business development uses strategy as a mean and not a finality! More precisely, the business development consultant sets a goal thanks to a strategic plan he is going to implement thanks to a dynamics in business development. [...]