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In this week’s Weekly Digest<\/a>, I touched on a conversation topic that has been swirling around my head for a while. It seems that we have moved beyond the old “How can X become the next Silicon Valley?” question, and this is undoubtedly a good step. The question of how one should measure and shape the development of its own ecosystem remains important, and I believe that the question that should be asked is the same as that which startups ask themselves:<\/p>\n Now let me start by saying that I, as the cofounder of Rude Media, don’t care about the French startup ecosystem’s development, and I’m OK with that. Our mission is to report on what’s happening, and not to affect change inside of it – it happens that France is under-covered, so we exist. Rude Media as a whole does not base its success on the growth or evolution of France as a tech market.<\/p>\n There are those who will ask themselves questions about their ecosystem – government official, companies who are so dominantly involved in their market that their market’s growth is the best way for them to grow revenues, & individuals concerned with their own community – and it is to those people that this question is most important.<\/p>\n France will never be more “Silicon Valley” than the Silicon Valley, and, as I said above, this has more or less been accepted as fact in the general startup discourse. However, going beyond that, France needs to accept that it will never be more “China” more “Ireland” more “Luxembourg” or more “India” than any of those countries, so there is no point in trying. France can only be the most “France,” and there are\u00a0many reasons to believe\u00a0that it is not as “France” as it could be.<\/p>\nHow can I be the best version of myself?<\/h4>\n