TechCrunch meetups are happening nearly everywhere. There is no reason they should not happen in France either, where there is a vibrant TechCrunch community (TechCrunch France is one of the main French blogs). The idea of a Paris meetup started actually very casually a couple of weeks ago as I was just twitting about it.
The response was immediate and passionate both from users and sponsors. Tickets were gone in a few minutes only (all proceeds will go to charities) and we are very lucky to have a prestigious group of sponsors for that first edition. Alven Capital Microsoft Idées, MediaStay, FaberNovel, AF83 SiliconSentier, Fotonauts et Tequila Rapido and Trefle.com.
The event is now sold out but we might have a few more tickets to give away in the next couple of days if some of you are coming to Paris (just shoot me an email and I will confirm in return: ouriel at techcrunch.com with your name and company). The Meetup will take place next Tuesday, 23rd of September in Paris, in a cool wifi-ed location. About 250 people including French and non-French VCs, entrepreneurs, and bloggers, will show up to enjoy live DJ music and an open bar. With a little bit of luck we will have a couple of celebrities showing up in Skype Live.
Voilà !
Do one in LA. I’ll help. There’s a big tech community here.
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When will do organize a techcrunch meetup in Montreal? Willing to help. Feel free to contact me.
Here is a version without typos: When will you organize a Techcrunch Meetup in Montreal? I already organize Tech Conferences on behalf of the AMM-PCM which is the Montreal Marketing Association. We invite many speakers from California.
Please contact me if interest be.
Thank you,
Katheline Jean-Pierre
There is definitely a good tech community in France. I will try to summarize its strengths and the weakness here:
S: We have really good engineer schools and tech universities
S: There are high profile French tech people spreading the love for the Internet over the world (Loic le meur and Louis Monier for example)
S: France enjoys high speed Internet connection. Its generation Y is definitely keen on using the last app, gadget or anything flashy and trendy!
W: French people do not necessarily speak English fluently…
W: It can be very tricky to set up your own business (lots of paper work and being honest it is time and energy consuming to deal with government agencies!) However, this situation tends to be a little bit easier than before (we have hope!)
W: I got the feeling that French It companies work separately. There is no such things as cluster or Silicon Valley in France.
This is a really rough analysis of the French market but being myself in New Zealand, it is not that easy to track whats going on in my own country!
Vive la France!
When in Italy ?
What about a meetup in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
I’ll probably be the only one attending LOL
Ouriel, je devrais sans doute lire un peu plus souvent Techcrunch en Français. Les articles d’ici sont-ils tous traduits?
When is one in Berlin?