{"id":5951,"date":"2012-10-11T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T07:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:23:35","slug":"paris-capitale-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/10\/paris-capitale-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Capitale Startup is a Huge Mistake by Pellerin"},"content":{"rendered":"

While a battle rages on between entrepreneurs & investors against the government’s proposed laws, dubbed The Pigeon Movement, Minister of the Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin has announced today her intention to build a tech hub for Paris. According to La Tribune<\/a>, Fleur Pellerin has been inspired by London’s \u00a310 Billion project “UK Tech City,” which currently includes a Campus in which resides Google’s London office, and also hosts startup events like Startup Weekend London.
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An approximation of what I consider the “startup hub” of Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nFleur Pellerin’s aim<\/a> is to “d\u00e9velopper l\u2019attractivit\u00e9 internationale de la France dans le num\u00e9rique<\/em>” – I’ve left it in French on purpose, you can google translate it. The only problem with her goal to create a\u00a0physical\u00a0hub for the Paris Startup Scene is that it already exists. It’s called the\u00a0Silicon Sentier,\u00a0<\/em>after a metro stop called Sentier, and while it may not be the cheapest office space in the world, startups manage to get space nonetheless. From left to right on the map it’s about 15-20 minutes walk, or about 3-4 minutes by metro. There are 7 metro lines (3,4,5,7, 8,9, RER B) that run out to the suburbs of the city, which make it\u00a0extremely\u00a0practical for having meetings. The Gare Du Nord<\/a>, a train station which connects the Eurostar to London & the Thalys to Benelux, is 3 stations by metro, or 10 minutes by Uber<\/a>, if you’re impressing an out-of-town guest.
\nIt’s the only place in Paris you can run into another entrepreneur on the street – I ran into PEG, Laurent Kretz & Guilhem Bertholet all over the course of about an hour last time when I was there for a meeting. In this tiny space, office space isn’t cheap like we would like it, but it’s central, and everyone has naturally come here already.<\/p>\n

“Who’s here?” You might ask.<\/h1>\n

In no particular order:<\/p>\n