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		<title>Grasset and the threat against books</title>
		<link>https://www.startup-book.com/2026/04/16/grasset-and-the-threat-against-books/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I watched yesterday C ce soir and listened this morning to France Culture about the firing of Olivier Nora at Grasset: &#8211; Olivier Nora viré par Bolloré : où va le monde de l&#8217;édition ? &#8211; Le limogeage d’Olivier NORA de la prestigieuse maison d’édition GRASSET qu’il dirigeait depuis plus de 25 ans, par son [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Palo Alto: a History of California, Capitalism, and The World.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Palo Alto: a History of California, Capitalism, and The World by Malcolm Harris is a remarkable work. Point ! Now there has been some debates about it as you can listen on NPR. It is a marxist analysis. But you cannot disagree with the claim of the Washington Post on the cover page : &#8220;Conviction [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why haven&#8217;t we created a Google yet?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A revealing debate on &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t we created a Google yet?&#8221; [in France]. It&#8217;s fascinating, irritating when you disagree, and exhilarating when you recognize yourself in the discussion. Needless to say where I stand&#8230; but I should add that my reading of the book *Palo Alto*, which I&#8217;ll be discussing here soon, compels me to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Research and Development (R&#038;D) in Tech Startups (A short follow-up)</title>
		<link>https://www.startup-book.com/2026/03/05/research-and-development-rd-in-tech-startups-a-short-follow-up/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A short follow-up to my yesterday&#8217;s post Research and Development (R&#38;D) in Tech Startups (vs. Sales &#38; Marketing) as I was not fully satisfied with and I am still not ! I could not draw any conclusion and worse the results were not easy to read. I am not sure this will be any better, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Research and Development (R&#038;D) in Tech Startups (vs. Sales &#038; Marketing)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This strange post was motivated by my colleague Antoine (thanks!) who asked me what I thought of a recent article which claimed that in startups, technology is not as important as many think. The article is in French Pourquoi, dans les startups, les moins techniques gagnent souvent and was written by Manu Papadacci-Stephanopoli. So let [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An hallucination of Artificial Intelligences</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I made a mistake and published a French article in the English part. I will not correct it but add a French version elsewhere! Je reste partagé par l&#8217;impact qu&#8217;aura l&#8217;intelligence artificielle dans nos vies. L&#8217;internet ne m&#8217;avait pas laissé aussi circonspect. Je ne doute pas que l&#8217;impact sera considérable, mais en lisant deux articles [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Collective and individual again: David Graeber, Cynthia Fleury</title>
		<link>https://www.startup-book.com/2026/01/27/collective-and-individual-again-david-graeber-cynthia-fleury/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Herve Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[About ten years ago I discovered the work and thought of Cynthia Fleury ici. About six years ago, I translated, without really having the right to do so, an interview that I entitled « To be Brave is sometimes to Endure, sometimes to Break up » About three years ago I discovered apodcast on Radio [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The World of Startups according to Marion Flécher &#8211; final post : the sociology, &#038; not coolness</title>
		<link>https://www.startup-book.com/2025/11/18/the-world-of-startups-according-to-marion-flecher-final-post-the-sociology-not-coolness/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading *The World of Startups* by Marion Flécher, and I can confirm that it&#8217;s an excellent book, even if it&#8217;s a bit depressing at times — I&#8217;ll come back to that. In a previous post, I described her comparative work between French and &#8220;Silicon&#8221; startups. But the core of her research deals, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tech giants : nothing changes but their names ! A new analysis in 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A year ago I had published a post about the tech giants, entitled Nothing changes but their names ! Here is just a short update one year later.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The World of Startups according to Marion Flécher (Part 2)</title>
		<link>https://www.startup-book.com/2025/11/14/the-world-of-startups-according-to-marion-flecher-part-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hervé Lebret]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my post of November 8th, I promised to “read Marion Flécher’s book with great interest and will write to you in a future post to see if I find cause for resignation or optimism regarding the startup world.” I’m going to say both! The book is indeed excellent and perfectly describes the differences between [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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