{"id":7072,"date":"2012-11-20T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2012-11-20T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:20:35","slug":"paris-outranks-berlin-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/11\/paris-outranks-berlin-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry VentureVillage, numbers don&#039;t lie &#8211; Paris outranks Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7074\" title=\"venture village fake logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/venture-village-e1353402924785.jpeg\" alt=\"venture village fake logo\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/>Scrolling through my twitter feed this morning, I came across a wonderful tweet by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venturevillage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@VentureVillage<\/a>, one of Berlin&#8217;s English language startup blogs (there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techberlin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Techberlin<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/siliconallee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Allee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eu-startups.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU Startups<\/a>, &amp; others). The tweet commented on Startup Genome&#8217;s most recent report on startup cities, which places Berlin(#15), Paris(#11), and London(#7) in the top 20 European cities. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/venturevillage.eu\/startup-genome-report-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> on the report goes into a bit more detail about the report, including numbers such as 7% female entrepreneurs in Paris vs. 4% in Berlin and 9% in London, as well as how 95% have higher education in Paris vs. 1:6 (16%) in Berlin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Berlin comes in at #15 in the new @startupgenome report. Paris #11, London #7. Come on Europe! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/GIaM7WOf\">http:\/\/t.co\/GIaM7WOf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HEUREKA (@theheureka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theheureka\/status\/270802885552508929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe article seemed quite unhappy with its less than phenomenal improvement from last year (Berlin was ranked at #17 last year):<\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;[Berlin has] been bested by other, less obvious tech hubs such as Sao Paulo, Sydney and Paris.&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7073\" title=\"Startup-Genome-List\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Startup-Genome-List-e1353402731833.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"232\" \/>Unfortunately for Berlin, it seems that numbers don&#8217;t lie. Berlin is officially categorized as being in &#8220;hype&#8221; phase: stage 2 in a 6 stage evolutionary cycle of a startup ecosystem (seed, hype, independence, integration, expansion, contraction) &#8211; Paris &amp; Berlin were noted as being in Independence &amp; Integration stages. While it often seems that the city of Berlin hired a PR firm full-time to talk itself up, it cannot escape the inevitable question &#8220;What startups are being built in Berlin today?&#8221;<br \/>\nIn the past few months, Paris has seen <a title=\"Deezer raises \u20ac100M from Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/10\/06\/deezer-raises-100m\/\">Deezer raise a $130M round of funding<\/a>, as well as <a title=\"CEO JB Rudelle calls Criteo a Ninja Turtle on the eve of Series D fundraising\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/26\/ceo-jb-rudelle-calls-criteo-a-ninja-turtle-on-the-even-of-series-d-fundraising\/\">Criteo raise a Series D for a ~$850M valuation<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/blablacar\/\">Blablacar<\/a> continues to <a title=\"BlaBlaCar Rolls Out in Benelux, Portugal &amp; Poland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/10\/23\/blablacar-benelux-portugal-poland\/\">roll out in new countries<\/a>, and we&#8217;ve got VCs domestic &amp; international who continue to invest in our tech-driven startups.<\/p>\n<h1>It&#8217;s not about City vs. City, it&#8217;s about City + City<\/h1>\n<p>While VentureVillage would love to see Berlin getting more than a bronze medal as a European startup scene, the fact remains that it&#8217;s not about which city outperforms the other &#8211; no European city will dethrone London as the European VC capital in the next 10 years &#8211; it&#8217;s about how each city brings value to the European ecosystem as a whole. London &amp; Paris already have an albeit untapped connection by Eurostar, and London VC &amp; Angels continue to invest in Paris, especially as France is going through somewhat of a VC contraction; nonetheless, the fact remains that, while London holds 32% of the VC market, France still holds 20%, while Berlin holds 19%, traditionally placed outside of Berlin in cities like Hamburg (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mics.org\/2012-FinalEvent\/Slides\/ISAI-MICSprez.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISAI<\/a>).<br \/>\nPeople often ask me what I &#8220;think of Berlin&#8221; as if the city itself is a startup &#8211; and maybe that&#8217;s because there&#8217;s just as much risk of it falling apart in the next 18 months as any other startup. I don&#8217;t personally feel that way, but it&#8217;s certainly looked at as &#8220;yeah, I here <em>&#8216;a lot&#8217; <\/em>is coming out of Berlin&#8230; like, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/Soundcloud\/\">Soundcloud<\/a>, and&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1>Name Five Berlin Entrepreneurs.<\/h1>\n<p>Personally, I like to play the same game with Berliners that I did with Londoners last week: Name 5 Berlin-based startups. I just named 3 above, so I&#8217;ll add in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/Dailymotion\/\">Dailymotion<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/Netvibes\/\">Netvibes<\/a> (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/Jolicloud\/\">Jolicloud<\/a> if you prefer) &#8211; all of these are internationally recognized names (with the exception of Blablacar, but give it a year or two).<\/p>\n<h1>Berlin &#8211; a promising future<\/h1>\n<p>We wrote a while back about the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/05\/15\/paris-v-berlin-the-facts\/\">Paris &amp; Berlin &#8211; The facts you can&#8217;t ignore (part 1)<\/a>,&#8221; which reads in favor of Berlin, after writer\/entrepreneur Nicolas Metzke went to NEXT Berlin. I am excited by some of the things that I see coming out of Berlin &#8211; it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/venturevillage.eu\/the-factor-berlins-new-five-story-incubator-to-host-soundcloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Factory<\/a>, a five-story incubator which hosts Soundclound among other startups, will become the unofficial center of Berlin&#8217;s tech scene &#8211; run of course by the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenny Jung<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrolling through my twitter feed this morning, I came across a wonderful tweet by @VentureVillage, one of Berlin&#8217;s English language startup blogs (there&#8217;s also Techberlin &amp; Silicon Allee, EU Startups, &amp; others). The tweet commented on Startup Genome&#8217;s most recent report on startup cities, which places Berlin(#15), Paris(#11), and London(#7) in the top 20 European<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[1637,834,2570],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-berlin","tag-paris","tag-soundcloud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","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=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}