With Artistoon, French artists can now sell personalized portraits online
If you’ve ever been a tourist in Paris, you’ve probably been to Montmartre (and if you haven’t, well, shame on you!). If there was a “Silicon Valley” for famous European artists, Montmartre would be it. Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso all lived or worked there at some point in time. […]
New Year, New Design, New Writers, and New Resources
2012 is here, and The Rude Baguette is changing with the times! We launched The Rude Baguette on Halloween hoping to bring together some of the English bloggers in France to one place. We had this idea in our head that the people who were interested in knowing what was going on in France were […]
Wondering what's going to happen at LeWeb? Here, we'll tell you.
Oh yes, it is finally the most wonderful time of the year. The 8th edition of Europe's most hyped tech event, LeWeb - which has grown from some 250 participants in 2004 to over 3,000 attendees this year - will be taking place this week in the number-one tourist destination in the world: Paris. Silicon Valley's tech titans will finally succumb to a few painful days in a city with a bit of history, culture and good-quality coffee, where they
Startup Trends according to the 16 LeWeb Finalists
After a month of applications, semi-finalists and voting, LeWeb has announced the 16 companies that will compete in the startup competition. For those who haven’t been following, the 16 finalists are all invited to LeWeb, and the LeWeb community will vote over two days for their favorite startups. The top 3 startups will pitch on stage […]
HackDayParis – Hacking the language barrier…
This past weekend I went to HackDayParis – mainly scouting for developers, but also seeing what cool stuff people could come up with. Upon arriving, I stumbled through a conversation, trying to explain in French that I was an invited journalist, and thus not on the attendee list, only to look down and find out […]
Sometimes Social Doesn't mean Facebook…
This past weekend I stopped by ESCP Europe to see how their Social Edition of Startup Weekend Paris was going. I got invited to be a Jury Member for the teams, but I stopped by first to listen to Gawad Kalinga founder Tony Meloto about GK’s vision, accomplishments and mindset. For those unfamiliar with GK (like […]
@Jason Calacanis doing the TWiST in Paris Nov. 12th
Jason Calacanis – reporter, entrepreneur, conference organizer, Angel investor and Arrington Nemesis – is coming to Paris for the 5th edition of the “Paris Meetup” special episode of his web series This Week In Startups. He will be joined by his co-host, Tyler Crowley for a live-streamed episode featuring the “Shark Tank,” a fire-side Q&A, and, […]
France's Brittany gets its own Facebook
No, not Britney. But B-r-i-t-t-a-n-y. You know, the region in the north west of France, known as "Bretagne" to the French and "Breizh" to the local population. It's a French region unlike the others, with its strong Celtic roots and local language that closely resembles Welsh (yes, French is still the official language, calm down). It's the home of French writer Chateaubriand, crêpes and nationalist writer-historian Ernst Renan (whose famous essay "What is a nation?" not-so-subtly argued that the populations
Let’s talk about France, Baby.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrtF45-y-g] The Startup world has spread outside of the infamous Silicon Valley. Startups like Foursquare, Skype, Flipboard and Airbnb have proven that California isn’t the only place to turn out innovative ideas. Supporting this view, Bloomberg TV is currently airing a reality series following Techstars’ New York office through one round of incubation. Across the […]