Comments on: The Other French Paradox

By: fajar

fajar — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:11:18 +0000

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By: The Other French Paradox | myninjaplease

The Other French Paradox | myninjaplease — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:46:45 +0000

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By: Frédéric Filloux » L’idiotie du canon fiscal contre Google

Frédéric Filloux » L’idiotie du canon fiscal contre Google — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:59:35 +0000

[...] de bons ingénieurs, mais comme le note le capital-risquer français Jean-Louis Gassée dans la Monday Note (1), le système français sert surtout à subventionner le capital-risque de la Silicon Valley, [...]

By: A New Gallic Idea: Taxing Google | Monday Note

A New Gallic Idea: Taxing Google | Monday Note — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:50:51 +0000

[...] system produces good engineers, but, as Jean-Louis Gassée puts it in a previous Monday Note (see The Other French Paradox), the French taxpayer ends up subsidizing Silicon Valley. More broadly, the rate of private [...]

By: The Other French Paradox (2) - Jobs | Monday Note

The Other French Paradox (2) - Jobs | Monday Note — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:11:29 +0000

[...] weeks ago, I discussed what I called The Other French Paradox, that is how French taxpayers and French companies are at a (curable) disadvantage in Silicon [...]

By: Resolving The French Other Paradox | Monday Note

Resolving The French Other Paradox | Monday Note — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:00:36 +0000

[...] Last week, we looked at the two components of the “other” French Paradox. [...]

By: Quentin C

Quentin C — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:07:32 +0000

Nice analysis, but HEC is not a free “grande école”, it’s a private one and costs more than 12000€/year

By: Sunny Paris

Sunny Paris — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:43:23 +0000

Excellent post. We reached the same conclusion: it’s very difficult to sell outside of France without being local. I am former co-founder of Weborama a French listed company and now founder and CEO of Yoolink. Weborama was a great success in France, it’s becoming successful in Spain after years of work but it never crossed the Atlantic. When building my new startup Yoolink I thought, ok, we must think global from day 1 so we started the product in English, attended and spoke at international events such as Web 2.0 expo or Boston Enterprise 2.0 but the truth is: Even getting a blog post on a Tech Blog is a challenge if you’re not in the valley since americans bloggers talks about american companies, and French bloggers talk … about American societes as well! There is no concept of national industry, and being american pretty much trumps anything else – including the quality of many French software.

By: Gilles Misrahi

Gilles Misrahi — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:11:56 +0000

Where is Lanion ?

By: Clodéric Mars

Clodéric Mars — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:45:41 +0000

Basically youre saying :
France Telecom has very good employee but can’t use them
You can’t make business in the Valley without being in the Valley…

By: Olivier Ezratty

Olivier Ezratty — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:13:27 +0000

Hello Jean-Louis,

Actually, Uzec would be more successful in France as well if it had its HQ in the Silicon Valley. For a typical risk-averse French decision maker, it’s a more comfortable choice to select a North-American company rather than an equivalent French company, even of the same size and number of customer references. They feel – and they’re not necessarily wrong – that the life expectancy of the NA company is much bigger than its French competitor. One way to avoid this is to be really very innovative, to a point that there is no competition at all in what you do exactly. But for many, no competitor at all means no market…

I was told this by a couple ISVs, who decided to move in the SV after they got this customer “feedback”.