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The 2013 List: 20 Hot French Entrepreneurs Under 30 7 Mar 2013 | 03:24 am
Alright everyone, here is the 4th edition of the 13 Hot French Entrepreneurs Under 30 list - except this year, it's not 13...it's 20. That's right. I received nearly 60 nominations that qualified - so...
Oh French Startup Crowd, You’re Growing Up! 13 Feb 2013 | 02:53 am
I thought I would poke my head up into the blogging world again. Clearly, it's been a while. A long while. I realized this when I attended Paris Startup Weekend at La Mutinerie this past weekend. Hone...
Which French Entrepreneurs Are Actually Leaving France? 26 Nov 2012 | 12:36 pm
When President François Hollande took office earlier this year, I wrote a brief post on what this would mean for France - or more specifically, French startups. As a result of the President's proposed...
Orée: The Wooden Keyboard Made in France 21 Nov 2012 | 02:54 pm
So after a period of quasi-silence, I'm back at the blogging wheel. And what better to kick it off with, than Orée's wooden keyboard. I first mentioned it on Twitter on Monday and discovered lots of f...
Quick acquisitions: a new trend for France? 5 Oct 2012 | 02:31 pm
I'm sure I don't need to remind any of you when Instagram was acquired for $1 billion by Facebook earlier this year. There were many things about the acquisition that made the world go crazy. But asid...
Pixmania founders: one to leave France, the other to launch local fund 28 Aug 2012 | 08:14 pm
From the moment that François Hollande became the President of France earlier this year, the international press has been waiting for entrepreneurs to leave the country. Hollande's 75% tax rule caused...
Kima Ventures’ Jeremie Berrebi says no journalists wrote true Sparrow story 22 Jul 2012 | 09:54 pm
As just about everyone probably knows by now, Google announced its first France-based acquisition on Friday: Sparrow. I say "announced" because according to a few sources, Google has previously acquir...
The day Google acquired in France (Oh wait, that’s today). 21 Jul 2012 | 12:52 am
Rumors had been turning around the French tech scene for quite a while that French startup Sparrow (which also happens to be my favorite email client of all time) had been in acquisition discussions. ...
GigaOm’s Structure conference arrives in Europe (+ discount inside) 17 Jul 2012 | 09:37 pm
If you thought that all the big US tech blogs ignored Europe except for the occasional LeWeb conference, well, you thought wrong. Actually, if anything, they've all been vamping up their European acti...
France-made Gadgets. Yes, there’s more than the minitel. 17 Jul 2012 | 01:14 am
On June 30th, France officially lay its infamous minitel network to rest. The box connected French households before the arrival of the Internet is said to have inspired Apple's Steve Jobs - which sho...
