Archive for December 2013
France’s launches innovation competition to find next industrial star
After being appointed head of the Innovation 2030 initiative last spring, Anne Lauvergeon kicked-off the initiative’s biggest effort, the government’s global innovation competition, with its opening yesterday. President Hollande publicly threw his full weight behind the initiative with an appearance at the official launch of the competition last Friday at the 104. In his remarks, […]
Join 350 Growth Hackers & the Rude Baguette team at Tuesday’s Meetup in Paris
This week the 3rd edition of the Paris Growth Hackers meetup is happening this week, and the event has grown quickly, with 350 currently planning to attend tomorrow’s event. In addition to TheFamily’s Oussama Ammar and Mention’s Clement Delangue, the event will be kicked off by Rude Baguette’s own Joël Galeran, who joins the Rude Baguette […]
Why you should care about the LeWeb Startup Competition: the Winners always raise money.
LeWeb is only a week away, and those who plan ahead have already begun looking at the Speaker Schedule to figure out when to listen & when to network. Personally, I’ve blocked off most of the first morning to sit and listen to speakers – it’s a pretty strong line-up to start – but I’ve […]
EBlink funding totals $30 Million+ for their Mobile Network Solution
The Parisian startup EBlink has just announced a new capital raise of $2,8 Million+ with FSN PME and BPI France to develop their 4G base stations technology. Since its creation in 2005 the company has raised more than $30 million which is no surprise looking at what the company has come up with. Expanding the […]
Deezer vs. Spotify: a side-by-side comparison
I’m a pretty ardent believer in the idea that it is better to use the best products than local products. I rarely give favor to local versions of products that I use, when I feel they are ‘me-toos’ – I use Eventbrite, and not Weezevent or Amiando, I use LinkedIn and not Viadeo – and […]