Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
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Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#2what does "startup nation" even mean?
Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#3what does "startup nation" even mean?
It means a bunch of tiny firms that mostly fail.
Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#4what does "startup nation" even mean?
I would imagine it means a cultural and legal infrastructure lending itself to entrepreneurship. As a US citizen it's easy to take this for granted
Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#5what does "startup nation" even mean?
many fuzzy things wrapped in a taco:
- having a French silicon valley (I believe attempts have been done before but failed)
- jump on the wave of smart iot app fad
- leverage the previous thing for (probably super bad) software education
- Macron seems to be in the self-made man (with state support if you're positive minded) so reviving a liberal entrepreneurship model fits his views
ps: also it doesn't seem to have any major factual impact (they may have helped a bunch of people but I didn't hear about anything groundbreaking); annnnd the disrupt startup motto is not well received nowadays, Uber -> Uberization... gig economy .. it didn't catch on really (for good reasons IMO)
Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#6what does "startup nation" even mean?
> what does "startup nation" even mean?
A nation where startups can succeed?
Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#7I don't know much about the startup landscape in France (or anywhere in the EU), but I've always heard that it is difficult to incorporate a small company and hire employees due to large regulatory/bureaucracy hurdles. The "move fast, break things" pattern of setting up a Delaware LLC and getting an angel seed in a matter of days/weeks really just doesn't work.
Can anyone comment on this? Is this way off base?
Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#8I understand why a small percentage of startups could benefit from being in San Francisco and similar and want to enjoy the ecosystem, hire people, etc.
However, I have no idea why any early-stage startup would go to France and last 3 months, while with the same money they could go to Poland and enjoy the same level of support from the government, availability of highly-skilled tech people, and twice-4 times the buying power compared to any other similarly attractive country in Europe.
While I've never even come close to creating an even barely successful anything, I would think that being able to survive for 6 months can make the difference compared to running out of money after 3 months. I mean, the 3-months guy would totally miss a big contract at month 5.
Re: Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
#9How far has he gotten with labor law changes? I some HR folks complain at a company I worked for a while back. They complained that if someone in France was going to be fired there were three different government departments that may choose to get involved and sometimes each had a different idea on how the situation should be handled.