Liam Boogar
My take on the new LaFrenchTech label
Many people have already written and asked me my take on the new LaFrenchTech label, which launched last week. – “Is it just talk?” “Is this the beginning of a change?” – and, while I wrote a bit about how I feel about it in the announcement last week, I think it might be best to […]
Prixing sells its M-Couponing Technology to HighCo as founders pivot to…Flink
Mobile couponing startup Prixing has sold the bulk of its technology (IP), business contracts, user database & mobile apps to HighCo, one of France’s leading print & web couponing services. The deal, made for an undisclosed amount, includes “everything but the team and the equity,” says co-founder Thomas France, and comes after the company raised […]
Ezakus teams up with MotionLead to ship the grail of mobile advertising.
The following is a guest post by Alban Denoyel, CEO of Sketchfab. You can follow him on twitter @albn Ezakus, the French leading DMP (data management platform) for advertisers, has just announced a key partnership with MotionLead, who specializes in Rich Media Mobile advertising. I took this occasion to seat down with Christophe Camborde, CEO […]
Looking to hitch a ride to Sochi 2014? Blablacar is now available in Russia!
Blablacar has added Ukraine & Russia to the list of countries it covers (now more than 10) with the acquisition of Podorozhniki. Similar to Blablacar’s acquisitions in Italy & Spain, the amounts have not been disclosed, and the team is small (3 people for Podorozhniki). As TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear reports, Blablacar raised €10 Million from Accel two […]
“LaFrenchTech” to launch this week: the same bag of tricks or a real change in strategy?
This Thursday evening, ‘Startup Minister’ Fleur Pellerin will welcome members of the French tech community as she gives her voeux, a tradition in France akin to New Year’s Resolutions, during which she will talk about what she wishes for the French tech community in 2014. In addition to plaisanteries, Pellerin will officially announce La FrenchTech, an […]
France’s ultimatum to Netflix: ‘Our way or the Google way’
Netflix has a new tentative launch date in France, the JDD reported this weekend; the video streaming site has delayed its launch by nearly a year, despite successful internationalization in Sweden and other European countries, raising questions about France’s ability to ‘play nice’ with companies. Quick to respond to the leaked news, the Cultural Minister […]
Should VCs adopt a “Code of Conduct?”
It’s not a stretch to say that the permeation of the Internet in everything we do has lead to more transparency, more accountability & more visibility into what people do and what happens in the world. Countries cannot downplay revolutions, because Twitter knows about it before they do. The NSA can’t get away with spying […]
Minutebuzz in hot water for selling plagiarized love story to Coca Cola
It seems that Shia LaBeouf isn’t the only one getting in trouble for ‘being inspired’ by the works of the others – French viral video site Minutebuzz is in hot water for their most recent viral creation, a video about a young Frenchman who decides to get a last-minute plane ticket to Cancun to surprise […]
5 Wrong Answers to “What makes you the best at what you do?”
This article is part of the “Unbullshit-able” series – a series of articles around questions that entrepreneurs are asked that are bullshit-proof. Today’s question is “What makes you the best at what you do?” Talking about what makes your startup bullet-proof – or clone-proof, or Google-proof, for that matter – is never easy. Sometimes the […]
Mapping the Secrets to Crowdfunding Platform Successes & Failures
Crowdfunding is a hot-topic these days, and ever since I was invited to animate a panel at IdeaLab! last October, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the evolution, the trends, knowing that not every platform that forms today will exist in 5 years, and that not every possible outcome has been tried before. […]