Liam Boogar
Registration Open || Startup Weekend Paris May 25th!
With the amazing success of Startup Weekend’s special edition last weekend, registration opens today for the NEXT Startup Weekend. The event will be 50% developers, 25% designers, and 25% Non-Technical (i.e: Biz Guys), with an emphasis put on putting the Action back into the Startup Weekend motto “no talk. all action.” You can catch a great […]
Web2Day announces Speakers & a startup competition!
Web2Day, organized at La Cantine in Nantes, France, has opened up its earlybird and student tickets for its two day event coming May 31st- June 1st. The Rude Baguette is proud to be a Media Sponsor for the event, which has already lined up some pretty exciting speakers, including Paul Rouget from Mozilla, the infamous Cedric […]
Leetchi now has a YC-backed competitor – The race is on!
YC Demo day happened last week, and one of their companies soudned eerily familiar to Leetchi's social payment platform "Crowdtilt is changing the way we pool funds with friends." - Looks like the race is on.
Why Startup Weekend Paris tickets cost €200
This upcoming weekend, DojoBoost accelerator program will host a special edition of Startup Weekend Paris. The first of five (that’s right, FIVE) startup weekends that will happen in Paris this year, the first event of the year is a Tech Special Edition. The special event will consist of a high developer/designer-to-business ratio, and the talks and […]
Hollande needs to get Big Business off of Engineering School Boards
François Hollande, the socialist candidate currently running for the French presidential election, will be elected in May. He says he counts on the small and medium companies to boost the French economy, which dearly needs it.
Sacha Greif's eBook "Step-by-Step UI Design" goes viral
Earlier this week I received an email from French freelance designer Sacha Greif – the subject of the email was entitled “I wrote an eBook.” I chuckled to myself as I looked at it on my phone: of course I knew he wrote an eBook. Even if I didn’t follow him on twitter, I undoubtedly […]
Why I don't advise entrepreneurs to work from home
Yesterday I wrote an article about the difference between accelerators, incubators, co-working spaces, offices, and houses; the article was meant to talk about how certain locations are best suited for certain types of startups and types of entrepreneurs. In the comments section, readers got upset that I said that people working at home tend to […]
HumanCoders launches a Job Board. Their 1st client: Facebook.
Human Coders, the startup dedicated to creating micro developer communities which launched earlier this year, announced the opening of its programmer job board. The French-language job board currently offers job listings for JavaScript and Ruby on Rails developers only, though this is not a surprise as the co-founders have long since opens JSLive and RubyLive, […]
Accelerators and Incubators and Offices, oh my! Where to take your startup idea?
LeCamping announced recently that its applications are open for the third season of its accelerator program. The season three applications are available until April 13, and the program will run from June until November. With just a few weeks left in their season 2 session, emerging startups might be asking themselves whether an accelerator program is what […]
Dublin: A Startup City we can all learn from
This past weekend I was invited to be a mentor at Startup Weekend Dublin. I had never seen the Dublin startup scene, though I had read about it a bit. My weekend entailed a crash course in the startup scene in Dublin, and I took away a lot from it, so I thought I’d share […]