Thank you very much for your clarifications.

I get it now: you just wanted to display a list of currently promising French start ups on the web with no aspiration to a scientific approach.

And all the start ups are of huge interest indeed. But it seems there’s so much buzz that not being so accurate in describing the ’selection ‘(although it’s not a “start academy”, got it) will probably foster criticism amongst start up teams that haven’t been selected.

alarm:clock and TechCrunch are such well known blogs that having one’s name on a ‘marvel’ list happens to be a great marketing tool. If I were a runner-up myself, there would be room for frustration.

Thanks again for the fish and the openness of your answers.

Hope to see you soon,
Jeremy

Therefore i understand your comment and it is welcome. I am not sure Alarm Clock ’s intention was to create “star acadamy” like approach but more to give a snapshot to foreign readers of what is happening in France

Thanks for commenting on the France Alert list. You are absolutely right, to say that the Top 10 list doesn’t seem to have emerged from a very scientific process.

The startups that made the list met two or more of the criteria, not all. And your are right - the critera are mainly subjective.

We considered indicative stats from free sources (like alexa) or other statistics sources if we had seen the numbers in other places.

Greetings from the Limmattal!