Hack Day Paris: a 40-hour R&D marathon on November 4-6
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I don't think any research actually happens. Almost by definition, hacking and building things is just development.
"The statute of Jeune Enterprise Innovante (JEI), created in the 2004 budget bill, applies to small to medium businesses (in the EU, that means <250 employees, <50mil turnover, <40mil assets). The businesses must be less than 8 years old with R&D representing at least 15% of their expenses."
The benefits seem ridiculous. The article says they include exemption from revenue tax, payroll tax and an exemption from capital gains tax for associates (investors? not sure if I read that bit right).
Seems like the Wikipedia article might be a bit out of date, though. A French government website had a different list of benefits not including anything about capital gains, but adding an exemption for property tax.
Someone native should probably check my understanding, but it looks like you get a pretty sweet deal if you can convince the French government you're doing R&D.
But the R&D benefits aren't only for startups, most big companies try to fit all they can under CIR ("Crédit d'impôt recherche"—research tax exemption).
But this is Hacker News. It's a bit trite splitting hairs over the definition of "research" and "hack" here, no? :)
Is this a common in the French startup scene? I remember seeing a video from TCFRecipes that was in English too...
ParisJUG (Paris Java User Group) is in French, but we sometimes have foreign speakers giving talks in English.
That being said, developers usually know English better, since English is the lingua franca of development.