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French Policy prevents Netflix, but Encourages Illegal Downloads
This Post is a Guest Post by Willy Braun. Willy is a Paris-Based blogger from Toulouse, who currently works for EBG, the biggest professional community in new technologies. He also hosts his own French-language blog, Brocooli. In France, we LOVE movies & TV shows. But we don’t have an SVOD service like Netflix. Instead, We wait […]
7 Rules to Follow if you Want to be Followed
I boast a quite curated social network experience. I follow a limited number of people, I organize my facebook friends extensively (and I post to appropriate sections, usually). When I meet people who follow 2,000 people, I ask them how they read their news feed, and they laugh at me, like I’m crazy to not […]
Coming up for Air – Internet Addiction
Take a deep breath and dive down below. At first that sensation of that last deep breath feels great – you have something that nothing else around you does. Slowly your body, expecting another breath, finds you don’t have the means to do so. While you try to explore underwater, looking around you and distracting […]
RUDE Roundup: This Week In France…
Yeehaw, it's time for the Rude Roundup! Every Friday we'll bring you some of the hottest news from the past week. So feel free to take a snooze from Monday-Thursday, we'll be sure to keep you in the loop on what went down and what's coming up from acquisitions to events.
@Jason Calacanis doing the TWiST in Paris Nov. 12th
Jason Calacanis – reporter, entrepreneur, conference organizer, Angel investor and Arrington Nemesis – is coming to Paris for the 5th edition of the “Paris Meetup” special episode of his web series This Week In Startups. He will be joined by his co-host, Tyler Crowley for a live-streamed episode featuring the “Shark Tank,” a fire-side Q&A, and, […]
Do French Entrepreneurs have Enough Experience?
The startup mentality is great: “this is wrong; I’m going to fix it.” This kind of innovative thinking disrupts how we travel, talk to friends, look at data, keep track of fans, spread music, and more…. In the startup world, quite often we see former employees of big companies creating a startup because their experience […]
Bring TC Disrupt to Paris!
This past weekend TechCrunch went to China for a Beijing-edition of TechCrunch Disrupt. The event seemed to be a huge success, and wherever TechCrunch goes, crowds of startups and an over-sized check for $50,000 follows. On Facebook, TechCrunch posed the question “Where would you like to see TechCrunch Disrupt next?” Most likely just to get […]
Where Will the Mothership Land?
There are more and more startups every day: more and more people are choosing to start their own company instead of working for another – yeah, yeah, we’ve all read the articles. But here’s the deal: all those startups Hajj-ing their way to Palo Alto to get a piece of the pie, they’re gonna have […]
Let’s talk about France, Baby.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrtF45-y-g] The Startup world has spread outside of the infamous Silicon Valley. Startups like Foursquare, Skype, Flipboard and Airbnb have proven that California isn’t the only place to turn out innovative ideas. Supporting this view, Bloomberg TV is currently airing a reality series following Techstars’ New York office through one round of incubation. Across the […]