Rude Hangout: Talking Mobile with Appsfire co-founder Yann Lechelle

This Friday, Rude Baguette will continue its Rude Hangout series by welcoming Yann Lechelle, co-founder & “coder” of Appsfire, a startup creating a mobile ad network, among other things. I’ll be broadcasting live from General Assembly’ European Buffet in London, going on this whole week. The event idea is simple: Each week, I’ll livestream a […]

La Fête de l'Entrepreneur, tonight at ESCP

La Fête de l'Entrepreneur, tonight at ESCP

The fourth annual ‘Fête de l’Entrepreneur’, which is organised by L’ESCP Europe, will be taking place tonight starting at 18h and is expected to attract 2k attendees.  A free event that is open to all those in the entrepreneurial community, La Fête de l’Entrepreneur will offer the opportunity to network, participate in various informative events […]

Angelhack Paris hackathon offers $1000s in prizes

Angelhack Paris hackathon offers $1000s in prizes

The weekend before LeWeb, all over the world AngelHack is organizing a global hackathon that’s lined up some impressive speakers, mentors, and prizes. The event claims to be the “big leagues” of hackathons, bringing together 2500 developers from Paris, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles & Toronto for its December edition – with sponsors like Google, […]

Coworking Europe Conference brings top coworking spaces to Paris

Today at the Mutinerie coworking space in Paris, the Coworking Europe Conference kicked off its three-day conference at one of Paris’ most notorious co-working spaces. We’ve previous editions having taken place in Brussels and Berlin, this year’s conference hopes to bring together European and global  coworking space managers, entrepreneurship activists, nomad and innovation experts, collaboration gurus, […]

WebDeux Connect returns for its 6th edition Nov. 16-17

Hosted by Power-on cofoudners Sebastien Rousset and Jean-Francois Ruiz, WebDeux Connect has established itself as a strong annual Web 2.0 conference in Paris. Bringing together executives from startups, innovation leaders in big companies, as well as thought leaders in France, WebDeuxConnect is back again this year. The conference will touch on several themes particularly pertinent […]

Join Rude Baguette for our 1st ever G+ Hangout On Air!

For the longest time I’ve wanted to interview some of the most innovative members of the French startup community, but I really didn’t want to invest in the total package video  studio. While sometimes I wanted to interview entrepreneurs about their startups, often I just wanted the global startup scene to get a feel for […]

GA European Buffet: now with 100% more Rude Baguette

As part of General Assembly’s European Buffet, a week-long event features immersive workshops with a variety of themes, GA will be hosting a free Petit Dejeuner with The Rude Baguette. The event will be Friday November 16th, in London, from 9:00AM-10:30AM. In addition to chatting with entrepreneurs and startupers, I’ll be giving a talk on how […]

App Developer conference AppDays comes Nov. 9th to Paris

Yurplan, a Lyon-based startup around events, is organizing AppDays, a one-day event on November 9th in Paris, that, well, is all about apps – how to develop them, the different platforms and their evolution, and lots of nitty-gritty details on how to approach app development and how to market them. Keynote speaker Yann Lechelle is one […]

Hacks and Lulz of the HackDayParis Hackathon on Connected TV

TV, quaint and asymetric communication medium, thou shaped the youth of many a hacker who attended the HackDayParis hackaton on Connected TV. Most of the hackers in attendance came from the web, so that would be about 50 peeps, with only two coming from TV as far as I noticed. This made for a very […]

Dublin Web Summit – Ups & Downs – a review

Last week I had the pleasure of spending 2 days in Dublin attending Paddy Cosgrave’s near overnight success of a conference, the Dublin Web Summit. The two-day conference brought together 4,000+ attendees, 250 exhibiting startups, and what I heard was an amazing set of speakers. France was well represented in the summit – founder Tariq […]