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The Paris Startup Scene: A photo essay
The following photos were taken by Dan Taylor (cofounder, Heisenberg Media) in December 2013, in an effort to visualize the Paris Tech Ecosystem. Captions by Liam Boogar. Rue du Sentier has come a long way since its textile roots. The namesake for the Sentier District in Paris, this street has come to be the epicenter of the Paris startup […]
Government Intervention & the growing pains of the Sharing Economy
The 2008 financial crisis was arguably the catalyst for what became known as The Sharing Economy. Embodied by marketplace services like Airbnb for lodging, Blablacar for transportation, and even second-hand luxury goods marketplaces like InstantLuxe & Vestiaire Collective, the Sharing Economy cuts out the distributor, the retailer, the rental service – namely, ‘the man’ – […]
The problem with measuring Entrepreneurship in Europe
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Rooney published an article called “How Entrepreneurial is Europe?” The article, a re-cap of a talk he gave at Istanbul’s Webit Congress, looks to quantify how ‘entrepreneurial’ various countries are, as benchmarked against the US & Israel. The study looked at two specific figures – number of […]
Payleven’s Square-like payments terminal arrives in France, available in Apple stores for 49€
Update: we have received an update about this article from Payleven, stating that, despite announcing in their press release that Payleven is launching in France, the product in fact will not be available in the Apple Store until at least next April. In addition, the product will not be sold on the Apple store for […]
RudeVC: Maybe Local matters after all
Two years ago I wrote a short blurb entitled, “Does Local Matter?” in which I provocatively questioned the future relevance of the Local network component in the overhyped buzzwords of Social / Local / Mobile. We even jumped on the bandwagon by launching a tax-optimizing holding vehicle called SoLoMoCo to focus on this fad. So […]
Europe as divided as ever over NSA allegations & Data Privacy laws
Sparked by the NSA documents released by Edward Snowden earlier this year, Europe’s most recent confrontation with US technology companies & data privacy has reached its peak in the most recent weeks. Allegations quickly turned to accusations when Angela Merkel pointed fingers at the United States’ National Security Agency, claiming that her phone had been […]
How the French PLF 2014 affects the startup ecosystem
The following is a guest post by Aurélie Daniel, Cofounder & CEO of Beyond Croissant & blogger at En 20 Lignes, who has a Master’s in Business Law from the Institut d’Etudes Politques de Paris. You can find her on Linkedin or follow her on Twitter @aureliedaniel. Earlier this month, the French Government announced its finance bill for 2014 (in French PLF 2014 […]
Alcatel-Lucent may be the giant failure that France needs to succeed
With the exception of Thomson Reuters’ Global Innovation report, not many institutions would put Alcatel-Lucent in their “top 100” of anything these days. A Google search for the name brings up countless financial blogs wavering on whether the company will close down this quarter or next quarter, and the recent announcement of a 15,000 employee-layoff […]
The Gravediggers of Innovation
The following is a guest post by Nicolas Colin, a co-founder at TheFamily and co-author of a report commissioned by the French Government on taxation and the digital economy. The article was originally published in French on his personal blog; you can follow him on Twitter at @Nicolas_Colin It all starts as a sort of informative […]
The Dublin Startup Scene: A Photo Essay
The following photos were taken by Dan Taylor, cofounder of Heisenberg Media, during a weekend tour in September 2013 organized by the Dublin Tourism Bureau in cooperation with the Dublin Web Summit. The following are his thoughts, opinions, and, above all, his photos. Dublin: the name has become synonymous with European tech. Giant names including […]