Liam Boogar
Google France Country Manager leaves to found e-learning startup
Google France announced this morning that their country manager Jean-Marc Tassetto has left the company to pursue “an entrepreneurial project around e-Learning.” In its announcement, Google France lauded Tassetto as a great asset to the company, having notably worked on its commercial growth since his arrival in July 2010, according to Gizmodo France. Google has […]
After France’s “success”, German press seeks remuneration from News snippets
It seems that Google just can’t past this whole “stop pirating our bylines” thing these days: the German lower parliament approved a bill requiring Google (and other search engines) to pay a licensing fee for re-publishing bylines of news stories. This comes just months after the French press industry settled its similar disputes with Google, […]
London Web Summit review: a solid one-day tech conference
Last Friday, Paddy Cosgrave and the Web Summit held their second annual London Web Summit in the center of Europe’s venture capital home. The sold-out one day event included talks from the likes of Autonomy’s Mike Lynch, UK Tech City’s Joanna Shields, as well as the obligatory startup competition. This was the first Web Summit […]
Twilio partners with 500 Startups to bring the Twilio Fund to European startups
This afternoon at the London Web Summit, Twilio announced the opening of Twilio Fund Europe, a micro fund which, partnered with 500 startups, will invest in startups using Twilio’s SaaS Telephonie services. This will be the third fund, the first two of which were restricted to US startups – this time, CEO Jess Dawson said, […]
Planning growth in France, Eventbrite puts out report on events in France
This week, Eventbrite welcomed journalists, clients, users, and enthusiasts to a special session with CTO Renaud Visage, as well as members of the London & SF office, including VP of Marketing Tamara Mendelsohn, during which Eventbrite discusses its progress so far as a company, and its future in France and across the world. The company, […]
B2B Rocks is bringing sexy back, to enterprise startups that is – March 27th
Friday March 27th, the B2B Rocks conference will welcome enterprise startups, entrepreneurs & enthusiasts to remind everyone why B2B startups are awesome (hint: it’s because they make a lot of money). The event, which will feature eFounders founder and former Fotolia CEO Thibaud Elziere, Eventbrite CTO & resident conference stud Renaud Visage & Orange’s director […]
LeCamping welcomes 12 new startups to its 4th Season of acceleration
Yesterday evening, LeCamping kicked off its 4th season at Google’s Paris office, announcing 12 new startups. As with previous seasons, the startups will go through a 6 month program, during which they will shape their business model, put out a minimum viable product, and master their startup pitch. Startups receive 4500€ (without giving up any […]
Sunrise: Ex-Foursquare UX Designers look to replace the last remaining default iPhone App: the Calendar.
Each new iPhone comes with a few in-house apps – mail, clock, weather, ,maps, etc. – and one-by-one, these apps have been outdone by competitor who devote their energy towards making these things easier. Sparrow killed the ‘mail’ app (and then Google all-but-killed Sparrow), Google killed Apple Maps, and the weather app has been replaced […]
20 (more) French startups whose names don’t work in English
A while back I received a series of pitches from startups with ridiculous names, so I decided to share them in an effort to explain why they didn’t work in English, in order to help startups create a better brand identity. Since then, it seems like everyday where someone goes “Oh man, I can’t believe […]
Next Berlin’s Startup Competition looks for the Top 30 European startups
NEXT Berlin has made a pretty good name for itself as an event not to miss for anyone interested in Berlin startups or the German market. Hosted by digital agency SinnerSchrader, we sent our resident half-German Nicolas Metzke out to the event last year, and he came back with new ideas and thoughts on the event. This year, […]