PARIS — Fifteen young entrepreneurs have 90 seconds to pitch their products, from belts that automatically adjust to digitally-connected insoles to recycling bins that do the separating for you.
The typical setting for such a competition would be Berlin or London, long considered at the heart of Europe's young start-up culture. But this is playing out in a drab basement in middle-class Paris – testing assumptions about the friendliest tech countries in the region.
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