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Hottest tech startups in France

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Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by ekianjo »

What?? Quantic Dreams, Gameloft, Deezer are not startups anymore, and have not been for a LONG time. And I would not qualify Quantic Dream as "tech startup" in the first place, it's a video game company, which falls in a very different category. And if you start including Quantic Dreams, why not include Nadeo, Arkane Studios, etc... most of which are not startups either anymore.

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by onion2k »

On Leetchi: If you've ever organised a gift for someone in the office, you know how tricky it is to get everyone to pay up.

I can think of a very easy solution - don't force anyone to pay. Buy a gift to the value of the money that people volunteer to put in. If you work in an business of 30 people, and everyone has to chip in $5 every time there's a birthday, that's effectively garnishing everyone's wages to the tune of $150/year. That should be a choice. If it isn't then your company is likely a horrible place to work.

Alternatively, just have the CEO organise the collection and watch everyone pay up immediately.

Either way, you don't need an app.

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by pcrh »

BenderV wrote: post #5

I would have included Drivy, which has recently raise $8.6m and acquired Buzzcar (a concurrent). [Peer to peer car sharing] Other than that I would be curious to know how that list compare to other country/state. Edit : and also capitainetrain, which have raise $6.3m. [Buy train ticket]

Concurrent --> competitor

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by david927 »

fijal wrote: post #2

Other than blablacar, EVERYTHING in that list is about either entertainment or solving non-existing issues for privilaged class (like organizing URLs), can we ACTUALLY go ahead and solve real problems or does that not attract VC funding? EDIT: The above statement is based on an assumption that the list in the article is legit, I don't know anything about French startups to reflect on the entire scene

It's less about funding and more about what Business Insider wants to cover.

Remember, the French government is essentially an angel investor if you're trying to solve hard problems.

For an example of what BI missed, Brodlist is a French startup that is a new query language on a new type of database: simpler than SQL but with NoSQL scaling and performance.

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by lloeki »

fijal wrote: post #2

Other than blablacar, EVERYTHING in that list is about either entertainment or solving non-existing issues for privilaged class (like organizing URLs), can we ACTUALLY go ahead and solve real problems or does that not attract VC funding? EDIT: The above statement is based on an assumption that the list in the article is legit, I don't know anything about French startups to reflect on the entire scene

Most of those aren't startups anymore by anyone's metrics. France has both a culture and systemic problem towards startups. It's been made abundantly clear to me when having a chat with UK and US people at conferences such as dot[0] that the environment here is quite hostile and successfully launching requires either solid government backing or a great amount of courage. Probably why everytime some news outlet here wants to talk about startups, each one of them hover way above ~5M€ turnover and 30+ employees.

Here's[1] what I consider being one of the genuine french startups that recently launched and tries to be useful (although aimed at the tech crowd).

[0]: http://www.dotconferences.eu

[1]: https://scalingo.com

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by contingencies »

fijal wrote: post #2

Other than blablacar, EVERYTHING in that list is about either entertainment or solving non-existing issues for privilaged class (like organizing URLs), can we ACTUALLY go ahead and solve real problems or does that not attract VC funding? EDIT: The above statement is based on an assumption that the list in the article is legit, I don't know anything about French startups to reflect on the entire scene

http://www.chauffeur-prive.com/ looks good also, basically blablacar/uber with a professionalism USP: sounds good to me, but I'm concerned about range! I fly to Paris from China tomorrow evening with wife and daughter, and don't want to deal with maybe-late-sorry-phonetag ride-sharing. We want to go long distance between towns semi-frequently, and are happy to pre-book and pay a slight premium. If they had English and a map showing coverage across the country they'd more likely get our business. The first hit on a test search on blabla car was a 27 year old single male with an overpriced/overpowered car giving away free rides ... not the right image.
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