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ICT Spring Europe: Industry Expo or Startup Conference?
Last week I spent two days in Luxembourg attending the ICT Spring Europe event. The event featured talks from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, EA and Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, as well as at least 30-50 startups pitching and exhibiting in the giant LuxExpo exhibition hall. Speakers, exhibitors, and other distinguished guests were invited to […]
In France, there’s a huge difference between an Entrepreneur and an Auto-Entrepreneur
In recent weeks, the “Auto-Entrepreneur” status has been in the forefront of political discussions, as the government assesses whether to lower the revenue cap that auto-entrepreneurs can make. The status was created by previous president Nicolas Sarkozy in order to enable out-of-work and independent workers to begin making money more easily; the seemingly simple (as it […]
Fleur Pellerin discusses French Innovation on her 1st LinkedIn Post. The Internet disagrees.
After a long trip around the world, including Korea, Israel and the Silicon Valley, the Minister of SMEs, Innovation, and the Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin has given her thoughts in the form of a post on LinkedIn as one of LinkedIn’s influencers. Ignoring all sarcastic remarks about why she didn’t post on Viadeo, let’s get […]
Pinterest launches in France (and they’re throwing a party tonight in Paris)
Pinterest has announced some exciting news for Frenchies – a special version of Pinterest with localized search, content & categories, “as well as links to more French domains and pins with descriptions in French.” The update comes just weeks after Pinterest launched in the UK and announced its intentions to launch in France, and after Pinterest […]
Steve Jobs called it: France claims Amazon is killing bookstores with loss-leader prices
During a conference of bookstore owners in Bordeaux this week, Aurelie Filippetti, France’s Minister of Culture, renewed her fight against Amazon, who she says has killed the market by lowering prices and by introducing free shipping. As reported in LeMonde, Amazon has taken advantage of one French law which allows books to be discounted at […]
Rude VC: Governments’ bite of the Apple
There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth recently about Apple’s alleged dodging of paying taxes on tens of billions of profits from 2009~2012. Incidentally, that’s merely what the U.S. government deems it forfeited. Apple of course pays a paltry tax bill in France, despite the fact the France remains the world’s third best […]
How IBM plans to lay off 13% of its workforce in France by the end of 2014
Yet another blow for French president François Hollande today as IBM announces it will lay off 689 employees by the end of 2013, and a total of 1,226 by the end of 2014, 12.6% percent of its 9,730 staff in France. The president, who ran on a campaign of lowering the unemployment rate, has been […]
Pinterest isn’t just looking for a Country Manager in France, they’re already here.
Female-friendly social network Pinterest already announced earlier this month that after their big push in the UK, France was up next – according to this job post that appeared this week, “next” is now. The standard Country Manager position, Pinterest is looking for someone with a strong social media background and the ability to research […]
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[SPONSORED] Entrepreneurs: Why some emails get read, and why others don’t
In the beginning of a startup’s life-cycle the most important asset is time, and thus time management and time optimization become key. For the internet entrepreneur, nothing has optimized life more in the past 20 years than email, which allows instant communication between two individuals, whether close friends or a prospective client/partner; just like my grammar […]
On Zombie VC funds in France
Exactly ten days ago the yearly ritual of ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’ took place. Also known as the annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, this may well represent the only public company’s shareholders meeting whose promise of attendance can be the sole reason for investors to purchase a share of its stock. Of course, another reason […]