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26th Jan 2020

Financial Times: Common rules needed to foster Europe’s start-ups

France vies for tech leadership with new laws for stock options

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20th Jan 2020

France To Change Rules On Stock Options To Attract Startup Talent

An announcement by President Emmanuel Macron today should make France more attractive to potential employees because of new rules regarding stock options.

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19th Jan 2020

CNBC: France is making start-up friendly reforms to lure tech talent and take on Silicon Valley

It comes after 500 European start-up founders warned of a ​“brain drain” of the best and brightest in Europe.

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18th Jan 2020

Bloomberg: Macron Has a Plan to Lure Tech Talent to France

The French 2020 budget law, voted late last year and enacted on Jan. 1, has two major measures already to make stock options of startups more attractive.

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2nd Oct 2019

Bloomberg: Why It’s So Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe

Lawmakers across the Continent haven’t given startups the compensation tools they need to share profits with employees. That’s changing.

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28th Nov 2018

Les Echos: L’Europe des start-up réclame des outils pour attirer et retenir les talents

Les pépites européennes vont devoir recruter 100.000 personnes dans l’année à venir. Elles ont besoin d’outils plus simples pour partager la valeur et en appellent aux pouvoirs politiques européens pour les y aider.

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28th Nov 2018

CNBC: European start-ups call for stock option reform to help them compete with Silicon Valley

Chief executives from start-ups including TransferWise and Stripe urged European lawmakers to reform rules around employ stock ownership.

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28th Nov 2018

WIRED: Europe’s stock options muddle is handing America a big advantage

Rewarding staff with stock options is a Silicon Valley favourite. Is Europe facing a talent deficit because of how stock options are regulated?

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21st Mar 2018

Les Echos: Jean-Baptiste Rudelle: ​“BSPCE, the secret weapon of start-ups”

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27th Nov 2017

How Index Ventures became Europe’s startup success factory

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27th Nov 2017

Forbes: Study: Europe’s Tech Startups Need To Share The Love With Stock Options

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27th Nov 2017

Bloomberg: One Idea to Make Europe Bigger in Tech Is to Pay Employees More

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