Founder Interview: tinyclues founder David Bessis on their big launch year and the importance of the team
Throughout the month of August, the Rude Baguette will be running a series of interviews with some of France’s top and rising entrepreneurs, where they’ll share their reflections on their year thus far, their plans through the end of the year and how they manage their businesses through the August down period. In this […]
Founder Interview: Melvin & Hamilton CEO Nicolas Metzke on building an international luxury brand
Throughout the month of August, the Rude Baguette will be running a series of interviews with some of France’s top and rising entrepreneurs, where they’ll share their reflections on their year thus far, their plans through the end of the year and how they manage their businesses through the August down period. In this installment, […]
Founders Story: from a French Commune to Seedcamp, Ryan Notz tells the story of MyBuilder.com
Ryan Notz is the founder of MyBuilder.com, a site which helps you find great builders and tradespeople and review feedback for work they’ve done. You can follow them on Twitter at @MyBuilder I had a very challenging journey from founding MyBuilder.com to building a stable footing for the business. It was a long, hard slog […]
[Interview] Ebuzzing, changing the game in social and video advertising
Ebuzzing was originally founded at the end of 2007 by 12 year web veteran Bertrand Quesada, whose vision from the beginning focused on offering brands a platform to help scale their PR and ‘buzz’ on social media. Quesada joined forces with Kelkoo founder and serial entrepreneur Pierre Chappaz shortly thereafter with the objective of building Ebuzzing into a […]
Interview with Waze – 34 million users and counting
Waze is a GPS mobile app that helps drivers navigate the globe in more efficient and adventurous ways depending on your destination. Concert, no address? Waze will take you there. The online Waze community has astronomical stats for any startup: doubling users in July 2012 from 10 to 20 million in 6 months! Apparently Waze […]
evioo brings prescription glasses online [Interview]
Buying glasses has always been a pain in the ass for me. For years, I thought I had a “weird face” because one glasses shop clerk told me so after I tried on a dozen pairs of glasses. But while evioo might not help my face be less weird, they may help you skip your […]
Mathieu Lhoumeau raised $0 Million for Contract Live
Scrolling through startup articles, it almost seems like we’re being told interesting information. After all, articles include verbs, like Raises (funds) and there are big shiny numbers, like 20 Million – we read through the rewritten press release, and the author might even give their executive opinion on the product. From a journalist’s point of […]