4 Google+ Communities for startupers to join (& 100 to avoid)

Last week Google+ announced the launch of Google+ Communities – think Facebook Groups, and despite what any other article will try to tell you, they are identical, both visually and in overall usefulness. +Rude Baguette has been on Google+ for quite some time – we’re evening doing exclusive Rude Hangout’s each week. While it’s still early days […]

TakeOff Conference brings Developers to Lille, January 17 & 18 2013

TakeOff Conference brings Developers to Lille, January 17 & 18 2013

Lille’s going to be the place to be on January 17-18th. Tech center / incubator EuraTechnologies and Promotion of Future Digital Technologies Association (founded by entrepreneurs Benjamin Tierny, Robin Komiwes, and Florian Le Goff) have teamed up to create the first TakeOff Conference.  The conference, which will be in English, offers passionate developers and designers the […]

LeWeb gets back to its Roots – A Review

LeWeb gets back to its Roots – A Review

With LeWeb safely under wraps, I think it’s about that time that we take a look at what we can learn from Paris’ biggest web event of the year, and one of Europe’s largest tech events. The three day event saw plenty of announcements – some of them we’ve already covered, many of them will slowly roll […]

Stellar line-up at DotJS — more conferences to come

DotJS is a top international tech conference on JavaScript that took place last Friday in Paris and gathered 600 attendees. I’d say that more than half of them were from out of town, based on a show of hands. The organizers pitched it as “not a regular conference”, which shows at first sight by the choice of venue […]

Game Connection Europe – still the "games industry meeting place"

We spent a good part of last week attending Game Connection Europe 2012, which took place on the 28th – 30th at  Paris’ Porte de Versailles.   This year’s installement saw the launch of several great new elements including, new content via a games marketing track, more workshops, and awards for the industry’s best games […]

Here are 5 startups on the Digital Tech Tour in New York this week

For the past few months, I’ve been looking a bit into Ubifrance, the organization responsible for helping French companies export themselves and build international sales. Year round, the partially government funded organizations’s TCIS division puts tech startups in contact with decision-makers and key partners at companies that could be potential clients or partners for those […]

Great companies to watch at Game Paris Week

Game Paris Week, which is run by the Paris region video game cluster Capital Games,  has now officially kicked-off.  The first event, Game Paris Talent which place last Friday and the only event open to the general public, offered high school students the opportunity to learn about the video games sector and network with several leaders in the […]

Blogger Cocktail Hour at LeWeb

With LeWeb coming up, Rude Baguette is excited to announce that we will be inviting Bloggers to an Apéro-style cocktail hour on December 4th. The event will take place 45 minutes after LeWeb wraps up, before any real parties will start, but enough time to go back to the hotel and change. The cocktail hour will […]

NooSphere launch event this Monday at Microsoft France

This Sunday, former Business Insider editor and one of the founding members of BI Intelligence, a premium insights service, Pascal-Emmanuel “PEG” Gobry will launch NooSphere. In addition, the launch will feature a talk by ISAI GM Jean-David Chamboredon, also the spokesperson for the #geonpi movement. The event will also feature a fat visualization by French […]

Rude Hangout: Olivier Rousseau talks Roaming & Telco.

Each week, Rude Baguette invites a member of the French startup community to a live video chat on Google+, where viewers can participate live with questions as well as joining in by video. Rude Baguette is excited to welcome this week Olivier Rousseau, Co-Founder of French Connection. Join us this Wednesday at 3:30PM here to […]