CapGemini's new study redefines the Digital Shopper
I am about to launch my new E-Commerce business in a few weeks, thus I screen everything I see that touches on this subject and even more though when it covers Fashion as a market segment. When I saw this new study published by my former colleagues of Cap Gemini “the Digital Relevancy” I first […]
Index Ventures Summer Party on the Criteo rooftops
Yesterday evening, Index Ventures hosted a summer party on the top of Criteo’s new office building, located just across the street from the Theatre de Paris. The party welcomed a fair amount of Index VCs from their offices in Geneva & London, as well as some of the head honchos. The event also featured some […]
First Impressions of Lille's EuraTechnologies: Home to 100+ startups
When I used to write on my personal blog, I would write articles about places & events just hours after I visited them, in order to thoroughly give my First Impressions. They were not meant to be my final judgment of something, but merely my ‘customer feedback’ as a visitor to something. I thought I’d […]
Rude VC on Triathletes and Entrepreneurs
Even though I suck at them, I’m a big fan of racing triathlons. This past weekend was chock-full of exciting events. Right here in Paris the French Triathlon Federation held an olympic distance with the swim portion in the oh-so-propre Seine. Other notable races over the weekend included the Long course Challenge in Roth, Germany […]
European Games Group: Partnering with Developers to Create Successful Games
Securing investment and achieving successful commercialisation are two of the major challenges that are often hotly debated in the games sector. Although securing funding is always a challenge for any entrepreneur, the problem is particularly acute in games where the development process can often be long and costly, causing traditional tech investors (ie VCs) to […]
Micropayments on the rise in Europe
Hi-Media Group and Harris Interactive have released their “Micropayment Barometer” which seeks to measure the progression of micropayments globally and, particularly, in Europe. For the European part of the barometer, 4k internet users across France, Germany, Italy, and Spain were included. The main finding of the study was that micropayments are pretty widely and increasingly […]
l'Oreal's iPhone app Color Genius: is it really Shazam for make-up?
One rumor about the reason why Steve Jobs always wore the same outfit, was that he considered this “one less thing to worry about”. For the Rude Baguette readers who aren’t fashionistas and not following this week’s craziness of Paris’ Haute-Couture fashion shows, likely about 99% of all readers: In beauty and fashion the choice […]
qunb: The Youtube of Statistical Data. Graph Everything.
Yesterday LeCamping Season 2 company qunb finally opened their search engine for finding, compiling, and comparing figures to the pub. The company has build its platform of open data and aggregated data on the basis of one premise: researching figures is hard, and it shouldn’t be. With a rapidly growing list of sources for data, […]
DragonBox: gaming children into learning algebra
The claim that a game could teach basic algebra, symbol manipulation, and equation solving in a few hours, while being truly fun and engaging, sounds just like another inflated marketing pitch. But play DragonBox, by We Want To Know, and this suddenly seems like an understatement. Stop bitching, start a revolution The universal challenge of […]
France says goodbye to Minitel
This article was meant to go out on June 30th, but was delayed due to our servers being down.Read more about it here. June 30th marked the end of an era here in France. It was the day that Minitel permanently went off-line. For those readers who are unfamiliar with Minitel (basically those outside of France) […]