France bids to reverse tech brain drain

Re:France bids to reverse tech brain drain by pythondz on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:56AM (#10227056)

I grew up in France; gradutated from University (so not from French Ivy League known as "Les Grandes Ecoles"). I'm currently in a consulting position and tried to launch several startups-ideas at the end of my MS degree with the "Auto-Entrepreneur" status and it was very difficult to find investors because french people are very pessimistic by nature and the atmosphere created by the state and the media is really oppresive. It means that if you fail (and I failed), people around you will break your mood down (very hard to handle that).

You need to find your team of talented people who will be ready to use their own money to reduce costs. It's almost impossible to recruit someone you don't personnaly know without a large amount of cash. Splitting equity seems to be not attractive enough with french tech engineers...

The one and only advantage in France is that you can restart your life because you can easily avoid indebtedness in case of failure.

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Re:France bids to reverse tech brain drain by renaudg on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:03PM (#10227580)

I've been a French expat in London for 5 years and I used to think like you. Having recently reconnected with Paris' tech scene though, things have changed a lot wrt to failure and things like that.

And the difficulty of finding an engineer willing to be paid in equity only, in a market where they can get both equity AND a good salary, is nothing special to France believe me.

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Re:France bids to reverse tech brain drain by Nothorized on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:12PM (#10228172)

Il y a plus de 200 écoles qui sont des grandes écoles, donc ça n'a plus vraiment de signification. Si tu devrais le refaire une nouvelle fois, qu'est ce que tu conseillerais, et dans quel pays te serais tu installé?

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