{"id":70597,"date":"2017-07-04T02:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/why-france-is-taking-a-lesson-in-culture-from-silicon-valley"},"modified":"2017-07-21T02:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T09:00:46","slug":"why-france-is-taking-a-lesson-in-culture-from-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/why-france-is-taking-a-lesson-in-culture-from-silicon-valley","title":{"rendered":"Why France Is Taking a Lesson in Culture From Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-france-is-taking-a-lesson-in-culture-from-silicon-valley.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While France needs to lure more international investors and further ease rules for entrepreneurs, the country, backed by government officials and tech leaders, has started to inject new energy into the start-up scene. France has already become one of Europe\u2019s top destinations for start-up investment; venture capital and funding deals last year surpassed that activity in Germany, making it second only to Britain in Europe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new start-up incubator in Paris symbolizes France\u2019s tech ambitions, but can the land of the 35-hour workweek overcome its cultural and regulatory barriers to surpass London and other tech hubs?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/29\/business\/station-f-tech-incubator-france.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/29\/business\/station-f-tech-incubator-france.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While France needs to lure more international investors and further ease rules for entrepreneurs, the country, backed by government officials and tech leaders, has started to inject new energy into the start-up scene. France has already become one of Europe\u2019s top destinations for start-up investment; venture capital and funding deals last year surpassed that activity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70661,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597\/revisions\/70661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}