[SXSW] “Paris, A Thriving Ecosystem Despite itself”

The following was originally sent as an email to our email newsletter subscribers yesterday afternoon.  Since its launch in 2011, the Rude Baguette has worked not to be a cheerleader of the French tech market – you know I’m the loudest screamer when it comes to providing critical feedback – but just to be an educated, […]

Festicket partners with Digitick, France’s biggest e-ticket retailer, to bring festival packages to France

Festicket partners with Digitick, France’s biggest e-ticket retailer, to bring festival packages to France

After raising a $680K seed round of funding earlier this year, the London-based, French-founded Festicket announced that they will be partnering with France’s largest e-ticket retailer, Digitick, embedding their white-label festival package solution inside of Digitick site, enabling Digitick to offer exclusive package deals for some of the biggest music concerts in France, such as Rock […]

Abracadacom is a one-day bootcamp in all the things that startups suck in.

Abracadacom is a one-day bootcamp in all the things that startups suck in.

As the fall season kicks off, I can’t think of a better way for startups to get back into the swing of things for the Fall Conference Season than by attending Abracadacom, a one-day event that will discuss branding, PR, communications, and marketing – I’ll even be discussing launching internationally alongside Cookening CEO Cedric Giorgi […]

Join the Paris – Berlin trek to Startup Safary on September 6th

  The following post is a guest post by Theophil Haberstroh who helps support startups with their expansion to either France or Germany. Theophil is also an active member of the Digital Club Franco-Allemand (DCFA).  Visiting Germany and especially Berlin can be a great step forward for young startups and those planning to run a business […]

Before you go on break, grab your ticket to the next Paris Founders Event, September 3rd!

Your bags are packed and you’re ready to disconnect for the next few weeks: before you do so, you may want to grab your ticket to the next Paris Founders Event. Our July edition saw nearly 100 founders & investors come out, and we’re looking to make a big splash in September. We’ve already got […]

It turns out, French Startups hire! Join us Sept. 14th for the first Paris Startup Job Fair!

The reality is: we don’t spend enough time talking about the fact that French startups are hiring at a time where most technology companies are laying people off or on a hiring freeze. Whether you’re a French engineer or a US sales guy who dreams of working for startups, we want it to be easy […]

Does Barcelona have what it takes to become a healthy startup community?

The following is a guest post by Heather Russell, founder & CEO of Rinkya, a Tokyo-based eCommerce site founded in 2001 which ships Japanese products all over the world. You can follow Heather on twitter at @heatherarussell On Thursday, July 11th, I was lucky to be a speaker at The Next Web and Barcelona IO’s sold out […]

Medialibs Convention to dig for tech’s next big ‘digital treasures’ on September 20th

Each September, lat least 250 tech and digital media professionals descend on the Ile-de-Nantes to discuss the latest innovations in web and digital at the Convention Medialibs.  The Convention is hosted each year by Medialibs, a Nantes-based website development and CMS software (e-majine & izi-media) firm focusing on communications professionals and website designers. For this […]

Hackathons are dead. Introducing Code in the Dark.

Let’s face it. Hackathons suck. I’ve been to about a dozen of them, as a developer, as a mentor, as a jury member, and as press. Here’s what I’ve noticed. Developers just want to code, but they have to pitch a business at the end. Juries just want to meet developers, but they get stuck […]

Pioneers Festival launch innovation platform in preparation for October 30/31st event.

Although there are increasingly more and more great conferences for entrepreneurs around Europe, one big question all these conferences are trying to address as they grow is how to keep participants engaged and continue the ‘conversation’ after the conference wraps-up. The creators of the Pioneers Festival are hoping to offer a good answer to this […]