Archive for August 2013
Gamescom kicks off with PS4 launch date news, ‘Le Game bundles’ and more
Sony makes first big new coming out of Gamescom with PS4 launch date news and film collaboration with Ubisoft Gamescom Cologne, which is arguably Europe’s biggest and most notable games industry and interactive entertainment conference, got underway yesterday with a slew of pressers from several of the games industry giants. The biggest announcement […]
The Ups & Downs: How Startup Life is Like a Rollercoaster
This guest post is written by Mark Fabian Henkel (@mrkhnkl) Co-founder and CEO of Paymill, a young startup that offers the fastest and easiest way to integrate credit and debit card payments in websites and mobile applications. I sometimes wonder why Start-up CEOs or other entrepreneurs are not committing suicide more often. Just kidding! But honestly […]
Meet the iHush founder Pierre de Vilmorin, the Frenchman disrupting China’s eCommerce leader Taobao
The following is a guest post by Corinne LUANELAP, working as a consultant at Daxue Consulting. Daxue Consulting was founded by Matthieu DAVID in 2009, and offers consulting and market research services to companies that want to develop their business in China. You can follow them on Twitter @DaxueConsulting. When we think about e-commerce in China, the first name […]
FML: 3 Iconic Letters to get a TV Show in France
“F*ck My Life” – the iconic phrase, born out of the website FMyLife.com which altered the vocabulary of almost everyone I knew from 2008 onward, has achieved the next level of fame – in France. In fact, not many Americans would be happy to know that the “FML” phrase was not designed by California Brogrammers or […]
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[SXSW] “Paris, A Thriving Ecosystem Despite itself”
The following was originally sent as an email to our email newsletter subscribers yesterday afternoon. Since its launch in 2011, the Rude Baguette has worked not to be a cheerleader of the French tech market – you know I’m the loudest screamer when it comes to providing critical feedback – but just to be an educated, […]
Festicket partners with Digitick, France’s biggest e-ticket retailer, to bring festival packages to France
After raising a $680K seed round of funding earlier this year, the London-based, French-founded Festicket announced that they will be partnering with France’s largest e-ticket retailer, Digitick, embedding their white-label festival package solution inside of Digitick site, enabling Digitick to offer exclusive package deals for some of the biggest music concerts in France, such as Rock […]
Founder Interview: La Belle Assiette’s Stephen Leguillon on using August to “take a step back”
Throughout the month of August, the Rude Baguette will be running a series of interviews with some of France’s top and rising entrepreneurs, where they’ll share their reflections on their year thus far, their plans through the end of the year and how they manage their businesses through the August down period. In this installment, […]
My Summer Homework: What Will the European Startup Scene look like in 2025
I spent last week using a bit of the news downtime to catch up on some of the uglier sides of running a company, namely projections. I’m not a huge fan of making plans any further in the future past what I can imagine in my head – luckily, Trista picks up the slack on that […]
Founder Interview: tinyclues founder David Bessis on their big launch year and the importance of the team
Throughout the month of August, the Rude Baguette will be running a series of interviews with some of France’s top and rising entrepreneurs, where they’ll share their reflections on their year thus far, their plans through the end of the year and how they manage their businesses through the August down period. In this […]
Can Amazon ignite HTML5 apps?
Up until now, selling an HTML5 based application was a challenge: Unless you were willing to package your code with a tool like PhoneGap and sell through the main stores (Apple, Google, Windows…), you basically had to either create enough of a following/SEO movement or rely on a series of third-party. Amazon wants to change […]