{"id":5610,"date":"2012-09-25T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T08:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2012-09-25T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T08:28:51","slug":"leweb-startup-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/09\/leweb-startup-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Find out if your startup is eligible for the LeWeb startup competition this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email from Loic &amp; Geraldine arrived in my inbox this morning, announcing that the LeWeb Paris startup competition applications were officially open. In addition to the free ticket that comes with qualification for the startup competition, participation in LeWeb\u2019s startup competition has traditionally offered a nice amount of exposure to investors &amp; clients; winning, LeWeb, on the other hand, is worth its weight in term sheets.<br \/>\nWhile startups are not required to satisfy LeWeb\u2019s theme \u2013 this year\u2019s is the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/13\/leweb-paris-theme-is-a-great-chance-to-showcase-french-startups\/\">Internet of Things<\/a>\u201d \u2013 it does certainly give you a boost in the qualification process. In addition, startups are required to have taken in no more than \u20ac1,5M in funding and must be launching their product at LeWeb. Personally, I don\u2019t know many European startups with \u20ac1,5M who haven\u2019t launched their product, but I guess it\u2019s just a double security check.<br \/>\nEntry into the contest is, of course, free, and <a href=\"http:\/\/as1.emv2.com\/tracker\/html\/end_campaign_tracking\/endcampaign.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applications<\/a> are due by midnight (PST) on October 21<sup>st<\/sup>. The semifinalists will be announced one month before the event.<br \/>\nAmong last year\u2019s finalists, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Place\u2019s Babelverse just announced a round of runding which included 500 Startups &amp; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Place HeyCrowd has been growing steadily in France &amp; UK for the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email from Loic &amp; Geraldine arrived in my inbox this morning, announcing that the LeWeb Paris startup competition applications were officially open. In addition to the free ticket that comes with qualification for the startup competition, participation in LeWeb\u2019s startup competition has traditionally offered a nice amount of exposure to investors &amp; clients; winning,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[2602],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-leweb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}