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Retail VCs: pivot or perish ?
It’s been a hot, lazy summer in most of France (far superior to last year, weather-wise, thank goodness). But in at least one sector of France people struggled to completely relax: the private equity / venture capital firms whose principal sources of funds are tax-incentivized “retail” investors. Such retail fund vehicles are a fairly uniquely […]
Online gambling is a €4B industry for France alone
Online gambling operators got taxed to the tune of 1.4 billion euros for France in 2011, meaning they generated revenues in the vicinity of 4 billion euros for that same year. Not bad for this little industry, considering most of the websites operating in France only got their licenses in 2010, though a few were […]
Digital Media Hub Awards Nominees Announced!
Roll out the red carpet for the Digital Media Hub Awards 2012! HUBFORUM, partnered with FrenchWeb.fr, will hold an awards ceremony in Espace Cardin on October 11-12 to honor the the most influential digital personality of the year, start-up of the year, and digital marketing and communications book of the year. Expecting 600 guests in attendance, […]
11 French Business Associations urge French Senate to innovate now!
Eleven business associations, many of which represent the interests of the tech sector, published and presented yesterday to the French Senate their ‘Three urgent measures for innovative companies’. One of their principal propositions is the establishment of the EIC classification (Entreprise d’Innovation et de Croissance, in English, Innovative Growth Company), which would bring together the […]
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 […]
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 […]
France Digitale launches with a *bang*: French Startups make 1 Billion Euros per year!
Yesterday morning, Elaia Partners’ Marie Ekeland and Meninvest’s Marc Ménasé welcomed what seemed to be the entire Parisian startup scene at the Pavillon Vendôme to announce the launch of France Digitale, the association created to lobby the French government. Among the invited masses and speakers was Fleur Pellerin, the Minister of the Digital Economy in France, […]
The 411 on Uber in Paris
A few weeks ago I wrote an albeit satirical piece when I found out that a competitor to Uber had cropped up, namely Chauffeur Privé. My proposition at the time was that the best way to decide which service was best was to have a private chauffeur race. Well, I couldn’t quite convince my girlfriend […]
Jirafe – yet another US company who does their R&D in France
When was the last time you heard about a US start-up building an operation in France and considering this as an asset? Usually you hear about French entrepreneurs moving abroad, but not American companies building offices in Paris; and those who do mostly consider this a necessary constraint, but not a strategic decision for their […]
Here are the Six Open Data Winners of Etalab's Dataconnexions Contest
This afternoon, open data enthusiasts gathered at the Orange Lab Headquarters to hear the results of Dataconnexion’s first open data contest of the year. The contest held applications from March until April 15th, inviting startups, people with ideas, and others to submit their open data idea, which was judged by a jury of open data […]