Everything Roxanne Varza said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Varza: French tech development has outperformed Silicon Valley since 2009
“The progress and the development that I have seen since arriving in France has really just outperformed Silicon Valley.”
Varza: Startup product launches are not newsworthy on their own
“A lot of entrepreneurs think that their product launch is news, and a lot of the time I have to sit down and tell them, that's not news. Companies are launching every day. There's no reason why yours is special.”
Varza: Relocating abroad provides unique career advantages over staying in Silicon Valley
“So I think it's been actually a huge asset living abroad. Sometimes I think, you know, had I stayed in the valley where everyone is just so remarkable, it's kind of like the top tier is really competing to stand out. I think when you change countries, by defau…”
Varza: Every top-tier US VC firm has invested in Europe
“I think if you look at every single American top tier fund, you will have at least one European investment today.”
Microsoft Ventures provides $500k in cloud credits per startup with zero equity
“No, actually the whole program is completely free so we don't take any equity, we're not charging them even for space it's, it actually comes down to a cloud offer that we're putting in front of them and we're not even, Really forcing them to use the cloud off…”
Varza: Learning to code will become as essential as learning English
“But I think code is going to be tomorrow's English, so.”
French startup tax benefits are weaker than UK's SEIS and EIS
“There was the ISF kind of tax benefit, which still is, is available, but they're nowhere near as advantageous as SEIS, NEIS in in the UK.”
Varza: Deezer, Sigfox, and BlaBlaCar raised $100M+ rounds in France
“We had several one hundred million dollar rounds that were done by French companies, that, that was Deezer, Sigfox, and BlaBlaCar, which, you know, those have all happened in the last two, three years.”
Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in France accepts 10 of 250 applicants
“And so that's a really intensive screening process, and we only picked 10 finalists, so that's 10 from 250 companies that make the cut.”
Varza: TechCrunch France's top post was a guest essay on freemium
“I had one company that published a post on why they chose a freemium model for their business, and that post actually ended up being probably the top post of all time on TechCrunch France.”
Girls in Tech intro coding classes sold out in two hours
“So in the last few years, we've done free coding classes or intro to coding classes, which were wildly successful in France. And that, you know, we sold out within two hours.”
Roxanne Varza
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