The Startup Career Launchpad conference brings out passionate students to meet entrepreneurs

Last week I had the pleasure to speak at the Startup Career Launchpad, a conference which invited students to come listen and learn from a pretty great selection of Europe’s Startup Ecosystem. During the conference, I moderated a panel on the impact of startup accelerators with SeedCamp, TechStars, StartupBootCamp, and the London City Incubator (LCI). […]

Lengow announces new solutions for Ecommerce vendors at their first ‘Lengow Ecommerce Day’

Lengow announces new solutions for Ecommerce vendors at their first ‘Lengow Ecommerce Day’

Last week, Lengow hosted their very first Ecommerce Day conference in Paris which proved to be a solid success for its first version, drawing over 250 participants. In addition to offering participants the opportunity to meet with experts from the sector and learn more about the emerging trends in Ecommerce, Lengow also leveraged the event to […]

How European Developers and Engineers can get access to the Stanford Knowledge Pool & Why you should

How European Developers and Engineers can get access to the Stanford Knowledge Pool & Why you should

These days, there’s no better profession to have than that of a developer – hell, I’m still kicking myself in the butt for dropping my Minor in Computer Science in favor of a Pure Mathematics degree; however, it isn’t enough just to be a developer. There are still plenty of dead-end IT engineer jobs out there that […]

“Failure by Omission” and other topics discussed by Failcon Zurich

What a great event – if you have never been to a Failcon event before, I highly recommend it. It was a bit of a ‘full circle’ moment for me, given that one of the first events I attended, and the reason I originally met my former cofounder for Rude Baguette was at Failcon France […]

Bootcamp ventures brings its Investor/Startup event to Paris June 18th-19th

Bootcamp Ventures is bringing its iX Event series to France, hosting iX Paris on Jue 18th & 19th. A global innovation platform for aligning game changing technology start-ups with international investors, partners and customers, Bootcamp Ventures has hosted several iX Event series already in Tel Aviv & Istanbul, bringing together international and local investors to meet, […]

i/o Ventures Partner Anne-Marie Roussel talks French startups & the Silicon Valley

The following post is a guest post by Alexis Niki, a Paris-based founder & CEO of StoryNova, which provides concept and story strategy and development support. You can follow her at @AlexisNiki. Last week I was at MIP where I had a chance to catch up with French Silicon Valley- based VC Anne-Marie Roussel, president of this year’s MIPCube […]

16 Startups selected for Ubifrance’s French Tech Tour to the Silicon Valley, including DocTrackr, Sush.io & Wimi

UbiFrance’s 7th annual French Tech Tour has released the names of the 16 startups that have been selected for a one week trip to the Silicon Valley. For those unfamiliar with the French Tech Tour, the tour’s finalists are selected by the very companies who will see the startups: this year’s companies include Amazon, AT&T, BT, […]

French startup Algolia makes it into NEXT Berlin pitch contest finals

After running open, public voting through end March, NEXT Berlin has announced the 12 finalists that will be pitching at its upcoming conference on March 23rd – 24th.  The contest that is, once again, organized in conjunction with Deutsche Telekom’s incubator hub:raum, who added about today’s announcement via representative and jury member Peter Borchers “We are thrilled […]

Join Rude Baguette at Failcon Zurich as we discuss “failure by omission”

April 16th, the legendary Failcon Conference series comes to Zurich, Switzerland, and I’m very excited to be speaking at it. The conference has already happened 3 times in Paris, and I’m happy to finally have something to talk about at the conference – “Failure by omission.” Failure By Omission for me is the idea that […]

Don’t miss your chance to apply to LeWeb London’s Startup Competition – deadline April 15th!

Le Web London, which is set for June 5 & 6th, will once again be looking to showcase the best and most innovative global startups in its Startup Competition. Although tech startups across various sectors are encouraged to apply, those that have a focus on the theme of this year’s LeWeb London, “New Sharing Economy,” […]