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FrenchTech: One step forward, three steps back
For entrepreneurs and investors in the French tech ecosystem (and even potentially for outsiders looking in), it has been a discouraging couple of weeks for us. While I still believe that 2016 will be the year of the European entrepreneur, I sincerely hope that politicians do not thwart France’s momentum in innovation when we’re just […]
Calling all cars: Please return to base immediately
On Friday France’s Conseil Constitutionnel, the country’s judicial authority, announced its long-awaited ruling on Uber’s objections to the Loi Thévenoud. For a quick recap, the Thévenoud Law (named after Thomas Thévenoud, former secretary of state who left the cabinet in a tax scandal last year) aims to handicap innovative on-demand transport companies like Uber and […]
A Tale of Two Taxis
The following is a guest post from Michael Ferranti, a marketer and product guy living and working in San Francisco, USA. You can follow him on Twitter @ferrantim where your tweets in English and français are welcome, or on his blog. My favorite way to travel in Paris is the metro, but when I was […]
“Can’t we all just get along?” A letter to Paris Taxis
The following is a Guest Post by Dave Ashton, co-founder of SnapCar, a French startup providing chauffeur services via its iOS & Android application Today, January 13th (and just like last year on the same day), there is a general taxi strike in Paris. 5000 angry drivers are using their idle cars to block the […]