Why I’m in Berlin for a week (And Why no one is in Paris)
For the next seven days, I will be getting an unofficial crash course in the Berlin startup scene. I have been invited by hy!Berlin at their expense to come out to Berlin and see what it has to offer, and with DLD Munich just around the corner (I will not be attending) and The Europas […]
Feb. 6-8, LIFT will be transforming ideas into innovation in Geneva
Over the last few years, the LIFT conference which takes places every winter in Geneva, has been rapidly rising in stature as one of the don’t miss tech conferences in Europe. LIFT, which will take place 6 – 8 of February, has been featured on Techcrunch’s Best Startup Events, attracts well over 1k people from […]
TheNextWeb announces the French Startup Awards – Jan 31st
TheNextWeb is looking for the hottest startups, entrepreneurs, apps & more in France, announcing the TNW Startup Awards France to be hosted January 31st in association with HackFWD and Cole Street. The event, whose location is currently not specified, will give awards in seven different categories, including startup of the year, co-founder of the year, […]
UXD4Startups announces 1st UX-dedicated event in Paris Jan. 15th
January 15th, the shared office space LeChaudron will be host to one of Paris’ first English-lange UX-oriented events – UXD4Startups. Organized by notable Paris UX Designer Olivier Desmoulin, Skimm UX/Product Designer Amine Bellakrid, & Skimm Visual Designer Christine Tong, the evening event will welcome 3 notable UX speakers. Sponsored by Fabernovel, dotCloud, and Stupeflix, the […]
Berliners! Join us Jan. 23rd for an Intro to the Paris Startup Scene
I’m very excited to announce that Rude Baguette will be giving its second General Assembly class later this month in Berlin, entitled “a pétit dejeuner with the Rude Baguette.” Similar to the course I gave in London at the end of last year, I will giving an intro course to the Paris Startup Scene – everything […]
All 19 of the French People's Choice nominees for The Europas
The Europas have announced their list of nominees for the people’s choice award. For those who don’t know about The Europas, it is the European equivalent of the Crunchies, a startup award show hosted by TechCrunch in San Francisco. Startups from all around Europe have already submitted their nominations for a shot at one of the […]
Seedcamp makes 3 new investments after final 2012 event in Paris
Seedcamp Paris has announced three new investments in startups who participated in Seedcamp Paris earlier this month. The startups invested in are Berlin-based knowable.org, a social network for ‘makers,’ Paris-based tldr.io, a service ‘summarizing the Web,’ and Cambridge-based Unifyo, which brings contact information “when you need it.” In their announcement, Seedcamp stated that they chose […]
Pascal Mercier: "The French startup ecosystem is doing great!"
Yesterday I chatted with fundraiser and veteran member of the French startup community Pascal Mercier for our weekly Rude Hangout. Pascal Mercier has been involved in the startup community in Paris “since there were only a few of us” in the late 1990s, and two years ago he launched Global Equities’ M&A & corporate finance […]
Everything must go! Loic sells LeWeb to Reed MIDEM
Yesterday afternoon,a surprise announcement dropped into email inboxes around the world, that the LeWeb conference series, started by Loic and Geraldine Le Meur in 2004, has been acquired by Reed MIDEM, a leading organizer of professional, international tradeshows and conferences. Loic and Geraldine declined to comment on the acquisition amount, according to TheNextWeb, though it seems that the Le […]
LeCamping: Season 4 Applications Open – Why should you apply?
With Season 3 safely behind them, LeCamping has opened up applications to Season 4 of its 6 month accelerator program, which will go from March until August 2013. The applications are open today, available on their website, and will close at the end of January. The Paris-based accelerator has already seen 36 startups go through, […]