Microsoft announces Spark, a CoWorking Space & Accelerator in the heart of Paris’ startup district
Yesterday at the Palais des Congrès de Paris, Microsoft France kicked off the Microsoft Tech Days, an annual event that brings the community together to talk about the amazing things happening with Microsoft. Obviously, Windows 8 will be a big part of the discussion this week, but the biggest news for startupers this week was […]
TakeOff conference: A technical review of an international tech conference in Lille.
The following post is a guest review by an attendee, Quentin Adam, and speaker, Thomas Parisot, of the TakeOff Conference, which took place two weeks ago in Lille as one of the first international tech conferences in France taking place outside of Paris. Enjoy. The TakeOff conference just ended for the first time in Lille (you know, […]
Loic & Geraldine announce the LeWeb London theme: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy
Via a new video posted to the LeWeb YouTube account yesterday, Loic & Geraldine Le Meur have announced the theme for LeWeb London: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy. The event, set to take place on June 5th & 6th in central London, will be their second event in London, after last year’s “Faster than […]
Leeaarn hosts master class featuring Gilles Babinet…chance to win a free slot!
Leeaarn, France’s answer to the online collaborative learning and university phenomenon, will be hosting a master class featuring well-known entrepreneur and investor Gilles Babinet February 18th from 20h-22h at Loft 50 Partners. The session will look to discuss in detail where digital technology is heading as well as examine its current and future impact on our […]
Startups: The best way to help your local ecosystem is to make $1 Billion
It’s always great when you go to a tech event and see that local and global tech companies are sponsoring it – Google & Microsoft are no stranger to this, but in France Orange, Bouygues, BNP Paribas and even SNCF have contributed sizeable amounts of money to the French ecosystem. It’s great: from an external […]
Three Storytelling Tips For French Startups When Pitching
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. In a pitch, you have a short amount of time to engage your audience, and who knows more about audience engagement than storytellers? I […]
Pack your bags: Applications for the French Tech Tour to the Silicon Valley are now open
Ubifrance has opened up applications for its annual French Tech Tour, which brings French startups out to the Silicon Valley to meet with key members of potential client, partner, supplier, and investor companies. The application, due in exactly one month (February 25th), is available here(download), and I would recommend that any startup that wants a […]
How did France do in The Europas last night?
Last night in Berlin, the guys at Web Summit hosted The Europas for its 4th edition, awarding European startups, VCs, and entrepreneurs in various categories. We’ll see what the word is on how the event itself went, but Mike Butcher broke a record for being the first person to finish an award show 20 minutes […]
Eventbrite, Airbnb and Fab tell tales of fighting off the Samwer Brothers
At hy!Berlin this past weekend, Eventbrite CTO Renaud Visage was interviewed by TNW European Editor Martin Bryant on the topic of Selling to the World, during which Renaud hinted that Eventbrite would be hiring in Paris very soon, in addition to Berlin and other European cities. The company, headquartered in the US, has had tremendous […]
What role for Berlin in the European Startup Ecosystem? Community.
During Hy!Berlin last week, Milo Yiannopoulos, Editor in Chief at The Kernel, interviewed Carter Caterfield of Art.sy, a New York-based startup working on bringing art deals online. The interview, which played on the theme of the intersection of Art and Technology, was aptly placed in the Hamburger Bahnof, a museam of modern art in Berlin. […]