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The slow unbundling of European banks

The slow unbundling of European banks

One of the many paradoxes of consumers regarding innovation is how slow they are to react to what impacts them the most. The more critical a product is to them, the slower they seem to be willing to shift to new, better solutions. There's undoubtedly a "devil

A quick recap on luxury

A quick recap on luxury

I don't write enough about the luxury market, although when I look back at all those years, I've been pretty active on various (always exciting) missions. The sector's need for secrecy certainly doesn't help. But also, I'm coming at it

Is the French startup ecosystem to blame for its elitism?

Is the French startup ecosystem to blame for its elitism?

I rarely comment or (worse) link to websites discussing startup ecosystems as they mostly only report how much money was raised by teams X or Y. Which, in and of itself, as someone working on innovation and not short-term risky investments, bears no interest to me. But there's

What Y Combinator tells us about the EU startup ecosystem

What Y Combinator tells us about the EU startup ecosystem

It's difficult not to consider the Y Combinator accelerator as the mother of everything startup for these last (nearly) twenty years. If anything, their track record is impressive, and their own marketing doesn't even bother trying to be smart or subtle. Facts are enough: "39%