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France’s ultimatum to Netflix: ‘Our way or the Google way’
Netflix has a new tentative launch date in France, the JDD reported this weekend; the video streaming site has delayed its launch by nearly a year, despite successful internationalization in Sweden and other European countries, raising questions about France’s ability to ‘play nice’ with companies. Quick to respond to the leaked news, the Cultural Minister […]
5 Wrong Answers to “What makes you the best at what you do?”
This article is part of the “Unbullshit-able” series – a series of articles around questions that entrepreneurs are asked that are bullshit-proof. Today’s question is “What makes you the best at what you do?” Talking about what makes your startup bullet-proof – or clone-proof, or Google-proof, for that matter – is never easy. Sometimes the […]
The flaw in Uber’s surge-pricing algorithm
Last week witnessed a lot of excitement around chauffered car services in France. On Monday Paris taxi drivers held a general strike, blocking airports and roads with their idle cars and in several incidents allegedly attacking competitive private car services. This comes on the heels of France’s introduction of its ’15-minute law’ designed to thwart […]
French Senate holds a Bitcoin hearing to discuss risks & opportunities
This week the French Senate held a hearing to discuss the decentralized currency Bitcoin. As reported by Coindesk, the hearing, which was broadcasted live, featured high-profile French politicians as well as directors from the French Tresory, the Banque de France, the anti-trafficing authority TRACFN, the border-patrol authorities, and notably, Paymium co-founder Gonzague Grandval. Paymium runs Bitcoin Central, […]
The Day Uber Conquered France
The details have yet to be surfaced, the allegations will likely never be confirmed, but that doesn’t matter. Whether you were in Spain, Germany, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or France – the message is the same. Taxis are Bad. Uber is Good. First, the context. Despite successfully pressuring the government into passing a decree requiring non-taxis to […]
Behind Drive’s $2 Million fundraising: “Uber is charging a premium for a commoditized service”
Earlier this week, Drive, a smartphone chauffeur service, announced it had raised $2 Million; Rude Baguette has learned that two of its investors include Olma Capital & Singularity Holdings. The fundraising comes after the service launched its fleet of German Mercedes last year, seeing “thousands of rides” in the first months of its launch. Founded by Maxime Bourdon, […]
Enhancing user experience through flexible design
When we want to find or share information, we expect it to be easy, fast and fun; but usually it is time-consuming, boring and sometimes we don’t even succeed. That’s why User Interface and User Experience Design come to our help and try to enhance our experience. Let’s see how it works in practice. YOUMIAM […]
Startup Wars Episode 5: France Strikes Back
You may not even have bothered reading the Newsweek article which ran last Friday, entitled “The Fall of France.” Indeed, you wouldn’t have seen anything different in the article, which borrows its name from a phrase coined during World War II for France’s surrender to Nazis six weeks after invasion, that you haven’t already read in […]
The “15-minute law”: Past, Present & Future
January 1st, 2014, it would seem as though the Taxi Commissions have won. The dreaded ’15-minute law’ will take effect, requiring smartphone chauffeur apps to wait 15 minutes after customers order a ride before picking them up, in order to — well, we can’t claim to understand what the intended ‘balanced’ result is meant to […]
RudeVC: 2013 landing on a good note
Various topics have been tumbling around my brain about which to write in this last post of 2013 on France’s startup ecosystem. There’s the alarming passage of a wide-reaching French surveillance law, or yet another French fiscal flap like the Eckert proposal, and of course the depressing pronouncements by Arnaud Montebourg at LeWeb last week. […]