'Loi Macron' Tag

  • Bureaucratic Blunder: Backtracking on the Loi Macron for startups

    October 21, 2016

    As Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live used to say, “It’s alwaaaayyyys somethin’.” Or for you millenials in the audience, “Here we go again.” (Kanye West). [We Gen Xers usually reach for Homer Simpson in these instances]. Hey French legislators, you’ve got to be kidding me. After the praise we heaped on you for implementing […]

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  • My two favorite perks of the Loi Macron for French startups

    October 13, 2015

    Following much debate and anticipation, France’s Loi Macron was finally adopted into effect in early August, during a period when many people weren’t paying too much attention. The Macron Law (inheriting not coincidentally the namesake of the Economy Minister whose ideas inspired it) is technically called the law “for growth, activity and equality of economic […]

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