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French Startups

We are based in "Silicon Sentier" in Paris.  The "Sentier" is the old rag trade area of Paris which is now becoming the equivalent of Silicon Alley in New York. This square kilometer right next to the traditional Stock Exchange benefits from excellent broadband and ISP services and network, or "club" effects.   The  cafés in the narrow side-streets are hives of creativity.  They are where groups of young entrepreneurs  trade ideas and tips over morning coffee, midday lunch or evening table games.  SYRE, in addition to working with companies in the traditional economy, also consults with some of these startups and we are incubating three of our own, two in Paris and one in Toulouse.  If you are interested in investing in a French start-up or if you would like to know how to establish a presence here, please contact us.  

Who are we ?

How does one overcome individual and company wide perceptual and cognitive barriers? What importance should be given to the role of intuition in running a company? In its training and consulting activities Syre gives answers to these questions (while realising that its task is to make the company thirsty to create, not to slake its thirst with cookie-cutter solutions). Syre consultants can point to factors in the environment and settings which favour creativity (space, time to think, innovation centres, creative workshops). They can teach the techniques necessary to define the objective, how to situate the objective (or problem), how to avoid the temptation to go after the objective before it has been defined or even decided that it is the correct one, how to generate tactics and solutions for problems, how to measure the potential impact of these solutions, how finally to select the right solution and implement it. The ideas of Peter Drucker, James Brian Quinn, Henry Mintzberg and Gareth Morgan have all fed into the methodologies of Systèmes & Ressources. 

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Nouveau : Le dilemme du chef d'entreprise innovateur : un livre de management qui fait autorité chez Andy Grove (le patron d'Intel). Il y aura toujours le temps de prendre le train en marche. Malheureusement, l'expérience montre le contraire... A review in French of Clayton M. Christensen's groundbreaking work : "The Innovator's Dilemma."

Eric Meyer, dans le numéro 1 du magazine "Newbiz" (Juillet/Août 2000) présente le livre de Christensen (en anglais The Innovator's Dilemma)  :  "(Christensen) ... explique que les entreprises qui sortent gagnantes des grandes révolutions techniques sont celles qui savent créer des bataillons de choc autonomes et rapides, style start-up.  Christensen montre comment, par le passé, des entreprises excellentes (IBM, Sears, Xerox...) se sont fait griller par les nouveaux venus, non pas parce qu'elles étaient défaillantes mais justement parce qu'elles étaient trop excellentes..."  Pour lire tout l'article d'Eric Meyer "Le choc de la nouvelle économie : les entreprises qui vont gagner et celles qui vont souffrir" achetez Newbiz !

http://www.start-upconsultants.com/ Need to know what the legal situation is for the New Economy in France ? Check out these pages which are the brainchild of one of France's most respected new economy lawyers.

http://www.neteconomie.fr/ Each day you can follow what's happening on the French start-up and Venture Capital scene with the online newspaper "Neteconomie."  This newspaper has four main categories : Industry, Business, Management and Society.