Liam Boogar
Neelie Kroes’ European Leaders Club is bringing sexy back to entrepreneurship in Europe – is that enough?
Last week, Commissioner Neelie Kroes welcomed nine entrepreneurs to Brussels for the first meeting of the European Leaders Club. Armed with experience and the desire to bring Europe “up to code” with the rising digital economy, the club hopes to bring to light some of the strongest issues in the European Startup Scene. Baptized the […]
San Francisco Mayor comes to Paris to strengthen ties between the two Digital Ecosystems
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee came to Paris this past week and met with Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë to exchange ideas with innovators and develop stronger ties around the Smart City theme. His trip, cataloged extensively on Twitter, included meeting with representatives from La Gaîté Lyrique, Autolib, and, ultimately, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë. The visit comes just a few months after […]
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It’s easy to find the cheapest tickets for your vacation – Kayak has always been my weapon of choice – but what if you don’t even know where you want to go? Where is the ‘recommendation’ in travel? Where’s the Passive? I recently got to meet former Tapulous founder Andrew Lacy to talk about his latest […]
Start-Up Chile seduces French entrepreneurs with Sun, Cash & Business-Friendly Government
Life’s tough for a French entrepreneur – you get treated like a pigeon, they try to move your ecosystem to the suburbs, they raise taxes on all your investors, and the media mocks you. Sometimes it seems like it would be easier to move to another city. London? Berlin? San Francisco (good luck on the VISA)? What about […]
Why is Cap Digital charging seed startups $12,000 for a 2 month Silicon Valley accelerator program?
Cap Digital recently announced a new French acceleration program in the Silicon Valley intended to help French startups ‘immerse themselves’ in the US Market. The non-profit business cluster is working alongside US Market Access Center (US MAC), a non-profit Silicon Valley-based accelerator, to bring 5 startups ‘intensive mentoring’ during a two-month program, 3-4 weeks of […]
Online payments startup Paymill adds Carte Bleue to list of accepted payment methods
German startup Paymill announced today that its online payments solution now accepts Carte Bleue, the European debit card payment system which dominates the French market. This comes just one month after they launched in France, and will definitely increase their attractiveness to French clients. Paymill, a Rocket Internet company similar to the American Stripe, has […]
Resistance is futile: French government gives go-ahead on 100 Million Euro robotics fund
France’s Minister for Industrial Renewal Arnaud Montebourg announced Tuesday at the European Robotics Forum that the government will be injecting 100 Million euros into the Robotics industry in France. Originally covered on the Wall Street Journal, the fund is said to give between 300,000 € and 3 Million € in grants to the robotics industry, which, while mainly […]
Deezer may be avoiding the US market, but Spotify is starving French users
The war between Deezer and Spotify has begun, and it seems there’s no country that’s safe. Spotify announced earlier this week that they would be removing the five-play cap per song for free users in the UK; however, it was Numerama that figured out that, with Spain, Finland, Norway, The Netherlands and Sweden having had this […]
Currently raising a round of funding, Fleex’s video Language-learning startup rolls out a premium service
After wrapping up LeCamping, EduTech startup Fleex has launched a premium version of its video language-learning service. Taking advantage of the international tendency for TV viewers to watch US TV Shows in VO (Original Language), Fleex hopes to help users learn English by providing dual subtitles – 1st language and English. Fleex launched its free beta […]
Previously cancelled TheNextWeb France awards quietly rescheduled to tonight.
TheNextWeb startup awards are going on tonight in Paris; you may not have heard about it because, well, they haven’t really communicated about it. The original event was cancelled, and then became a strictly online event, and then… Well, frankly we didn’t really know what was going on. However, it seems that last Friday, attendees […]