I've always thought of little cafes as France's startup industry. With the tourism and people expecting quaint little local eateries, it would seem that throwing a few tables out in a location where you had an oven and some floorspace would be a good way to bootstrap a little operation.
Perhaps your little eatery grows and you move into a larger space and attract more customers, and so on. Kind of an analogue to what many of us do with a few thousand lines of code on a little server slice somewhere.
I was curious (from my first comment) if anyone else would draw a solid link between French Cafes and startup hackery.
I've always thought of little cafes as France's startup industry. With the tourism and people expecting quaint little local eateries, it would seem that throwing a few tables out in a location where you had an oven and some floorspace would be a good way to bootstrap a little operation.
Perhaps your little eatery grows and you move into a larger space and attract more customers, and so on. Kind of an analogue to what many of us do with a few thousand lines of code on a little server slice somewhere.
I was curious (from my first comment) if anyone else would draw a solid link between French Cafes and startup hackery.