Le Mash Up Teaches Startup Students The Art of The Pitch
Le Mash Up has long since been a favorite event of mine. The event focuses on educating students about the startup ecosystem, while bringing students from different backgrounds together to find internships, meet startup icons, and learn about startup problems. The group just announced their upcoming event, which will take place July 24th, and will be […]
IBM Smartcamp Paris invites "Smarter Planet" startups, August 31st
IBM will be hosting a second edition of IBM Smartcamp Paris on August 31st. The event, which looks to gather together entrepreneurs, startupers, investors, and “IBM-ers,” is connected to the IBM Global Entrepreneur initiative, which began in March 2010. The half-day event is open to the general public via sign-up on their site, and is […]
France Digitale launches with a *bang*: French Startups make 1 Billion Euros per year!
Yesterday morning, Elaia Partners’ Marie Ekeland and Meninvest’s Marc Ménasé welcomed what seemed to be the entire Parisian startup scene at the Pavillon Vendôme to announce the launch of France Digitale, the association created to lobby the French government. Among the invited masses and speakers was Fleur Pellerin, the Minister of the Digital Economy in France, […]
Get ready for the Webgame Conference on June 21st!
Only 10 days to go until this year’s Webgame conference, which will take place on June 21st in Paris at Gaité Lyrique. The conference is an annual event and brings together leaders and innovators in web, mobile, social games to discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities in the sector. This will be the third installation […]
Teleportd is the startup that's about to knock LeWeb on its ass
Meeting up with Gabriel Hubert, CEO of Teleportd, is always an eventful occasion. The last time I met him at his office, he was ‘hacking’ a printer, so that people could hashtag their Instagram photos with a specific hashtag that would trigger the printer to automatically print the photo – he ended up using it […]
MongoDB Paris is coming June 14th – Win Two Free Tickets from us this week!
10Gen is bringing its MongoDB conference series to France, and The Rude Baguette’s got two tickets to give away to MongoDB enthusiasts and amateurs. The event will be held in both English AND French, so there’s something for the whole family – and by “the whole family” I mean the developer community. The event is […]
Lean Startup Machine Paris tickets open with great Mentors lined up!
This Week the Lean Startup Machine, a weekend event which encourages education about the lean startup methodology, opened fifty early bird tickets to its first event Paris. The event series, similar to Startup Weekend in its grassroots adopting around the world, focuses less on product development and more on customer development and validating hypotheses. To help […]
Registration Now Open for First Ever "Hack Days Transilien"
SNCF Transilien (SNCF’s suburban train services) annnounced today the opening of registrations for their first hackathon, Hack Days, which will be held from June 8 – 10 at La Cantine. To give you a little extra incentive to sign-up, 10k€ in prize money will be awarded (6k€ for 1st place and 4k€ for 2nd place). […]
Rails Girls comes to Paris to teach Girls to code in Ruby
Among all the great things that are coming to Futur En Seine, a French SXSW of sorts, is the Rail Girls event, which will host its first edition in Paris on June 15th & 16th. The event, which aims to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas, – […]
Review of Start In Paris – a recurring Paris startup event
Start In Paris is a quasi-monthly Paris event where people get together, and startups pitch their ideas. Started by Laurent Kretz and partner-in-crime Jonathan Benoudiz, the format is inspired by Laurent’s experience with New York Tech Meetup while living there. They also have a successful mobile startup together called FreeApps365. Bringing the event format to […]