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Re: French Startups to Look Out For

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Post by pygy_ » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 8:10 PM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #17

I feel like youmood.me (lets you comment on any webpage) has been tried and failed 100 times already. Am I just not remembering things?

Maybe they'll get it right.

Tablets were a chronic flop until the iPad came around.

Re: French Startups to Look Out For

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Post by paulhauggis » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 12:11 AM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #22

drstewart wrote: post #11

This is awesome! I'd love to work in France, it just seems there are a dearth of tech companies there.

It's easy to find work as a software engineer in France, but it's typically in contracting agencies or large companies. There is a dearth of tech startups for sure.

This is most likely due to the high taxes and regulations required for companies there. General employment rules are pretty strict as well.

Re: French Startups to Look Out For

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Post by elwell » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 12:33 AM UTC

Both my co-founders are French. We are working to help venues aggregate, curate, and display social media captured at their events. http://wesawit.com

Re: French Startups to Look Out For

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Post by dobalina » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 8:16 AM UTC

Another worthy mention would be Affilae (a 100% pure bootstrapped startup - no incubators, no accelerators, no funds raised and yet already profitable). It's B2B and not B2C though so perhaps not usually featured on these types of lists. ;)

https://affilae.com

It's a white-label SaaS affiliate and performance marketing platform providing tracking, attribution and analytics for running performance marketing networks and campaigns in-house.

Re: French Startups to Look Out For

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Post by amanthei » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 12:43 PM UTC

tbassetto wrote: post #8

I "only" knew Capitaine Train, Lima and Bunkr. I would recommend you to check https://sketchfab.com and https://en.mention.net

Hey, thanks for mentioning mention! ;)

Re: French Startups to Look Out For

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Post by ldng » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 1:06 PM UTC

Signez wrote: post #23

ldng wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're assuming voyages-sncf == SNCF which is not the case. It's a travel agency whose shareholders are SNCF and Expedia. So they are a private company that have a preferential treatment for which they been condemned once IIRC (not that it changed anything ...).

You're wrong. Expedia has no longer Voyages-SNCF.com parts since this "alliance" was condamned by French Autorité de la Concurrence (anti-trust autority). Nowadays, the only Voyages-SNCF.com shareholder is Groupe SNCF.

I can find references to a fines but nothing about Expedia leaving Voyages-sncf.com capital. Really curious about it, could you point me to some reference ?